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Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:33 pm to Bama Bird
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Gordon Gee
Yeah, wasn't he the one worried that sweater vest coach would fire him?
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:34 pm to BrerTiger
I think they're going to go after Texas and Texas Tech. Last time, the Pac 12 would only take the Texas schools if the Oklahoma schools would go with them. I think Texas would abandon Oklahoma now
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:34 pm to kywildcatfanone
Sure is 
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:35 pm to Bama Bird
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Sure is
I thought so. Was trying to figure out how someone who could say something so dumb could have been President at Vandy.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:37 pm to TwelfthMan
hahaha so B1G get's KU! and the SEC is stuck with Mizzou. Nice going guys.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:37 pm to Bama Bird
Vandy is crucial to the operations of the SEC. Having a private school in the conference makes it easier to operate, because they aren't required to disclose everything. I don't know the full extent to how it protects everyone in the conference, but it does.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:38 pm to Bama Bird
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We need to grab Oklahoma when they're on the table. They can have Kansas
This. They should have been the team last round.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:39 pm to Bama Bird
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I think they're going to go after Texas and Texas Tech. Last time, the Pac 12 would only take the Texas schools if the Oklahoma schools would go with them. I think Texas would abandon Oklahoma now
If Texas leaves the big 12 for the pac 12, then we will know that the biggest loser in conference realignement will be the big 12, as their other worthy teams will be gobbled up quickly.
In the scenario you describe, I see the SEC trying to add Oklahoma, and maybe West Virginia from that conference. Not much else to choose from.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:56 pm to TwelfthMan
You cannot add OU without also adding OSU. Just ask Larry Scott. No way their legislature or governor allows one school to take a conference invite without assuring the future of the other as well.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:57 pm to kywildcatfanone
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If Texas leaves the big 12 for the pac 12, then we will know that the biggest loser in conference realignement will be the big 12
Um. They already are the big loser in conference realignment. If Texas left for the Pac12 (which isn't happening because of the GOR.. no matter what anyone else says), the Big 12 wouldn't be the biggest loser, it would be dead.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:57 pm to GerryDiNardo
Let's take both. We wouldn't be getting a better option with the new ACC deal
Posted on 4/23/13 at 3:59 pm to ProjectP2294
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Vandy is crucial to the operations of the SEC. Having a private school in the conference makes it easier to operate, because they aren't required to disclose everything. I don't know the full extent to how it protects everyone in the conference, but it does.
It explicitly protects inter-conference communications from FOIA.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:01 pm to Bama Bird
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We wouldn't be getting a better option with the new ACC deal
The Big XII has the EXACT same grant of rights that the ACC just agreed to. If you can poach Big 12 teams, you can poach ACC teams.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:02 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Vandy is a charter member of the SEC. They aren't going anywhere.
This. Leave Vandy alone.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:03 pm to GerryDiNardo
Vandy doesn't want to leave, report is a non issue although the Big Ten has been extending olive branches VU's way for a couple of years now nothing is going to happen on either end.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:09 pm to BrerTiger
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Listening to Delany, it's obvious #B1G conference expansion -- and therefore CFB conference expansion -- is finished.
These 14 team conferences are untenable from a play on the field POV, not that anybody gives a flying frick about that at this point.
The B1G is going to at least have the 9 conference games and i believe no cross division games to muck up the works. The SEC is two conferences with a SECW/SECE Challenge at this point basically.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:21 pm to BrerTiger
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They don't want Boise. Probably ditto for Hawaii (thought that would be awesome for road trips). UNLV? New Mexico? Nevada? BYU? Wyoming?
There's a reason the Pac Ten tried to get the Texas schools. The pickings are slim west of the Rockies. All the best schools (academic and athletic -- total package) are already in the Pac 12.
UNLV has the best shot at getting into the Pac 12. UConn is the only school that makes more money than them that isn't in a power conference. Plus, they could move the Pac 12 title game to Las Vegas if that new stadium gets built.
They might take Hawaii though its a long shot. Its possible that they could get the votes if the Pac 12 could get 4 or 5 extra home games a year for their schools using the Hawaii travel rule.
Boise of course wants to be in but they still have a long way to go with improving the school as a whole.
I don't think New Mexico or Wyoming really have much of a chance.
If they are going to go into Texas they will likely wait out the LHN and Big 12 GOR deals. SMU and Houston have a tiny chance to get in but its hidden in some deep dark corner of Hell.
This post was edited on 4/23/13 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:29 pm to Vandyrone
Texas A&M should go back to their old conference for bringing up dumb threads. Vandy is a charter member of the SEC and isn't going nowhere. BTW, Vandy does have an Athletic Director.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:43 pm to morriscat2
Not only is Vandy a charter member but Dr. Dudley at Vandy was the braintrust that started it all and I think McVey at UK was the first president. Vandy and UK have a long history of intertwined connections so the odds of either school leaving the SEC seems farfetched.
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