re: Realignment? The talks are starting again

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And this my friends, is what we call the first super conference.

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Southern Conference:

Talks of a new conference for southern athletics had started as early as fall of 1920.[8] The conference was formed on February 25, 1921 in Atlanta as fourteen member institutions split from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.[1] Southern Conference charter members were Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee. In 1922, six more universities – Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference. The first year of competition for the conference was in 1922, effective January 1.[9][10] The new rules banned freshman play.[11] Later additions included Sewanee (1923), Virginia Military Institute (1924), and Duke (1929).

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University of Oklahoma President David Boren told the Tulsa World on Thursday night he wants “comprehensive reform” of the Big 12 Conference.

That includes an expansion to 12 teams, the folding of the Longhorn Network and other third-tier TV properties into a Big 12 network and a conference football championship game.

His comments came in an interview with Tulsa World sports columnist John E. Hoover.

Boren on Wednesday released a statement to the Oklahoma Daily student newspaper:

“The Big 12 is disadvantaged when compared to the other conferences in three ways. We do not have at least 12 members, we do not have a conference network and we do not have a championship game. I think that all three of these disadvantages need to be addressed at the same time. Addressing only one without addressing all three will not be adequate to improve the strength of the conference.”

The NCAA Division I council on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow the Big 12 to play a conference title game in football with only 10 members.

Playing a round-robin schedule is part of the new rule. This season, Oklahoma would have had to play Oklahoma State in a conference title game the week after OU had beaten the Cowboys. Last year, in the scenario, TCU and Baylor would have played weeks after Baylor’s victory at home.

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Oklahoma can't be in the SEC.... that state didn't secede.

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Unlike our Yankee "friends" in Kentucky and Missouri Oklahoma was not even a state during the civil war. They therefore get a pass on that important detail and though not southern are not damn Yankees either.

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Add NC State and Va Tech, slide Mizzou over to the west.

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in Kentucky and Missouri Oklahoma was not even a state during the civil war. They therefore get a pass on that important detail and though not southern are not damn Yankees either.

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are funded by revenue generated from an antiquated bundle model that will go the way of the dinosaur in the short to medium term future.

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Just curious, what do the individual SEC schools make off the SECN?

I know the SEC is a better brand than the Big XII, but I would think if they rebranded LHN to B12N and set it up like the SECN is set up, UTx would still make good money - maybe make $12MM as opposed to $15MM - and get a more stable conference because of it.

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