re: SOURCE says SEC & BIG 10 will have 20 or more members.

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SOURCE says SEC & BIG 10 will have 20 or more members.
People need to look at the old Southern Conference

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 (1924), Virginia Military Institute (1924), and Duke (1929).

The SoCon is particularly notable for having spawned two other major conferences. In 1932, the 13 schools located south and west of the Appalachians (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, University of the South (Sewanee), Tennessee, Tulane, and Vanderbilt) all departed the SoCon to form the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In 1953, seven additional schools (Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest) withdrew from the SoCon to form the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)

It got to big and broke in two.
If we are not careful, same thing will happen

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Probably I'm going to lose a debate with a Notre Dame fan about 5 years ago. Hell, might have been longer than that.

Long story short: He told me all conferences eventually fall apart, and I thought the SEC would never be dumb enough to do the things required for that to happen.

And then here we go adding in large amounts of teams, the very thing that would lead to such a thing.

I really fricking hate Sankey.

He’s only added Texas and Ou which are solid additions. Now if he adds Miami or Kansas then I agree.

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Kansas still has a lot of pull because of their basketball prestige

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This is about football and academics. If basketball was the target then I would agree

So Larry Scott's refusal to let Texas keep the LHN looks like will end up either seeing the conference be relegated or at best lose two of their most valuable schools...

Realignment is wild and it looks like on the SEC and B10 have actually thought this out long term.

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It got to big and broke in two.
If we are not careful, same thing will happen

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There was no media $ backing or driving the merging or splitting of conferences back then.

The OG SEC schools split off from the OG SoCon because of geography.

So we're starting threads because someone named Nicole Auerbach says she talked to someone in the phone?

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The future SEC won baseball and softball titles just this last two weeks.

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Wut?

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Miami and Kansas both add eyes to TV.

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Neither provide a long term viable TV market or add anything for viewing over what we already have.

Kansas does well for BBall but outside of that not so well. Miami has a great market if the team is doing well just LA teams. When the teams both Pro and college are not doing well no one cares. Plus FSU would be a better added value if the SEC were going to add another FL team.

VT has a large alumni base in DMV area which is a top 10 market for FBS TV. NC State same for Raleigh and Charlotte both top 20 or TV markets. Adding those 2 schools alone would grab the I95 corridor market all the way into Maryland.

I also think WVU would be a good addition as it would build regional rivals in surrounding large TV markets.

Clemson looks nice on paper but they would add very little for a TV market especially considering the SEC is already strong in areas they generate interest. Same for GT and Louisville.

a&m when added not only brought the SEC into Texas via large media presence it also opened the gates for many SEC schools outside of LSU(who was already there) in recruiting.

The SEC at 16 is significantly stronger than the Big Ten + USC & UCLA. The SEC almost has a logical, contiguous geographic footprint that is still important for non-revenue sports (in before Mizzou doesn't fit).

But it makes sense that the Big Ten will add more west coast teams so that it can have a full division out there to avoid horrible travel and match-up issues.

I'm guessing Washington, Oregon, Notre Dame, and ? will be joining the Big Ten. That would allow a West Coast Pod/Division of Washington, Oregon, UCLA, and USC.

Given the likelihood of some version of that occurring, I have to imagine there are a lot of calls being exchanged between the SEC and ACC schools right now. I'm guessing Florida State, Clemson, UNC, and UVA (or VT) are about to be joining the SEC.

From there, I'm guessing the PAC and ACC pick apart the Big 12.

North Carolina
NCST
UVA
VT

Will be added at some point.