re: Final Southeastern Conference re-alignment (A true "Southeastern" conference)

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Big 10 bound for us and this would be sweet.

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Screw you. We ain't goin' anywhere.

Tn. & Vandy won't be split into different divisions.

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When the SEC picked who the head the committee it was the Ole Miss chancellor who was also a Texas graduate.
You cannot deny that fact. The rest of the stuff is revisionist history.

The guy had one job to do and all the i's were dotted and t's crossed but it didn't happen.

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Here's an article worth noting:

1992 Expansion

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For its part, the SEC wasn’t going to sit idly on the sidelines. On May 31, 1990, the SEC presidents voted to authorize expansion, identifying six schools as potential members: Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State, Miami, South Carolina and Arkansas. Ole Miss President Gerald Turner headed the conference’s expansion committee. He told the Washington Post that the CFA’s inevitable decline meant the SEC would negotiate its own television contracts in the future and that the “first step in that direction is minimizing the force of competing conferences in our geographic area.” In other words, the SEC wanted to keep the Atlantic Coast Conference and a potential Big East football conference out of the State of Florida.

But SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer also wanted to go on the offensive. Keith Dunnavant noted, “The SEC’s area of dominant influence fell short of the footprint desired by many consumer-oriented companies,” which Kramer sought as sponsors. To make the “footprint” more sponsor-friendly, Kramer wanted to move into South Carolina, Arkansas and especially Texas. By targeting Texas, Texas A&M and Arkansas, Kramer had effectively declared war on the Southwest Conference, where all three schools were members. It was one thing to recruit independent schools; the SEC was contemplating an unprecedented raid on a fellow conference.

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More from that article:

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The magic 12th school would not come from the State of Texas. Although Texas and Texas A&M were on the SEC’s original expansion wish list, politics made either a non-starter. With Arkansas’ likely departure, the SWC would collapse without its two biggest Texas schools. That was unpalatable to Texas legislators — many of whom were alumni of the other five SWC members — and Texas and A&M were publicly threatened with retaliation if they left. Eventually, the SWC did dissolve, with most of the Texas schools merging with the Big Eight into the Big 12.

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Change UT for A&M and I’ll buy. We got the ackward little gay brother from that State.

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you could talk me into this.

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West - 

Arkansas 
LSU 
Kentucky (Changed Divisions) 
Mississippi State 
Ole Miss 
Oklahoma (Added) 
Texas (exchanged for A&M)
Vanderbilt (Changed Divisions) 


East - 

Alabama (Changed Divisions) 
Auburn (Changed Divisions) 
Florida 
Georgia 
North Carolina (Added) 
South Carolina 
Tennessee 
Virginia (Added) 

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This would be really fun to watch

SEC North: Mizzou, Arkansas, Kentucky, Vandy, Tennessee Alabama, Ole Miss

SEC South: LSU, A&M, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, State and South Carolina.

North/south geographical divisions makes more sense than east/west logistically. Just don’t don’t see the title “north” flying for the folks in the SEC.

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Your post is completely incorrect. Frank Broyles intiated the contact with Doug Dickey( one of his former assistants) who was at Tennessee at the time. Broyles and Arkansas were the catalyst for expansion at the time, because the SWC was so corrupt that several programs were either serving probation or had recently. Broyles and the fan base had grown tired, and wanted something else.

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I think LSU was also a big part of it and I'm almost positive that LSU sponsored us to join the SEC. LSU was also being courted to join the "super conference" imagined by Texas, but instead helped Arkansas join the SEC, after Broyles pitched the idea to the LSU AD. The LSU AD then officially pitched the idea to the SEC and that's what started the work on SEC expansion.

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The SEC West is a cakewalk here

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Ranked teams off of last year

2. Bama-East

4. OU-West

6. LSU- West

7. UGA-East

7- UF-East

12. UK- West

16. A&M- West


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An interesting article from 1992 as well.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
We always wanted to head east.