re: When does the SEC make the move to add Virginia and North Carolina?

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The SEC doesn't need to grow right now. It's still trying to figure out how to get additional revenue from ESPN for a ninth conference game, so adding more teams into the mix before Texas and Oklahoma play a down seems insane.

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Doesn't matter, they'll figure it out.

You need to break up the ACC for the SEC to plunder it, so you need a two-pronged attack. Get the teams you want (UNC, Clemson, Va Tech maybe, Fla State maybe); and push the northern schools to break off and reform the Big East.

Or, here's a novel idea- 2 24 team superconferences. 4 6 team divisions each, you have a conference semifinal round, and a conference championship.
And then, the conference winners play each other for "the title". This, of course, would require that these conferences both agree that they wouldn't play in the NCAA tournament... but general consensus would be that the B1G-SEC winner would be the real champ.