re: If Big Ten expands again, who does SEC need to add?

SEC takes UNC, Duke, Va Tech, Florida St.


B1G takes Clemson, Georgia Tech, UVA, and Miami.

I think UNC and UVA end up choosing the B10 over us and we get FSU and Clemson, which I actually prefer.

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If Big Ten expands again, who does SEC need to add? by TideFaninFl

The pie can only be so big and adding more fingers just reduces the payout.

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If the pie gets bigger, so will the payouts.

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If Big Ten expands again, who does SEC need to add? by BuckI
lol, don't be silly. Our broadcast partners will not put Ohio State or Michigan on that late. USC/UCLA vs Ohio State will be prime-time games.

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*ROTFLMAO*

Good luck thinking the B1G will never give USC & UCLA PST prime time slots for OSU or Mich..

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The difference is...

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Well I'm not saying it isn't a different situation on a lot of fronts. There is the time element you mention. There's the schools themselves and the measures of what they bring. There's the short/long term goals of the conferences. There is the vested interests of the broadcast media partners.

I'm just saying that at the end of the day the GOR is nothing more than another layer of business arrangement. It is not infallible. It Can be negotiated. It can be bought out. And the networks will have a whole lot of say in how that all plays out. The ACC surely has enough wisdom to know this and see that there truly is no way to keep someone in if the momentum around them is compelling enough to get a deal done. That might not be the case for a few more years. It might even take the rest of this decade (I think there will be an anouncement 3 - 4 years in advance), but the GOR might not even make that much of difference at all when everything is finally bartered away and the new deals inked.

Likewise, I'm certain that when the pieces start to move, no team will be staying to end of their respective GOR. Not a chance.

You took Rutgers and Maryland! The Big is playing Chutes and Ladders.

Also it’s funny how you wound up with NU only to see them die without unlimited partial qualifiers. Nebraska has NO PEOPLE in its boundaries. You could have had MU with St Louis and KC but you tried to short them on conference distros.

The Big just makes one drug addled decision after another.

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who does SEC need to add?

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Add? fricking ADD?

How many is enough for cripes sake? We need to start subtracting if anything.

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I agree with you, but I think someone laid out the ultimate plan...

Expand somewhere between 20 and 24, then split into 2 strong conferences.
I think that's why it will remain vital to keep layering on top of the core geographic region, instead of leapfrogging across the country. Clemson and Fla State do make sense with that, as does UNC and Virginia.

As an LSU fan, I dislike that model, because it shoves us into the Western (or NEW) bloc, and out of the traditional Southeastern region. I'd rather we keep playing Alabama, Auburn and Florida, instead of being paired with the Texas schools, Arkansas and Oklahoma. But you can clearly see the writing on the wall with that.
The thing that hurts most, is that there aren't truly desirable schools to the West, until you get all the way over to the Arizona schools. That stretches the footprint too much. The ACC targets fit nicely for road trips for the Eastern schools.

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They add brand names. Big has tons of viewers bringing in the south is almost no crossover fans. And they were big into contiguous states and aau until they weren’t. The reality is there are valuable non sec brands in the south. There is only one valuable brand in the north non big ten. And notre dame will eventually be big ten

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Nebraska was AAU then they kicked their asses out of it, the contiguous sure thats valid and they violate that rule with the new schools

b10 isnt inviting shite academic university into the conference if you cant see that then your just blind I guess since every move they have make involves the academic standing of the schools. Clemson and fsu dont cut it .

some of you freaks are having real trouble recognizing that the b10 approaches this from a different perspective. Not saying its good OR bad but it is a fact

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shite.