BreakawayZou83

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I see why the B1G needs FSU much more than the SEC needs FSU…

Here are the B1G teams that do not move the needle in terms of national viewership:

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Both conferences will jump to add the top few ACC schools because it is the last power conference that has not been looted by the B1G and/or SEC. Once the ACC has been raided, I believe that is how the college football landscape (at least in terms of conference affiliation) will look for the foreseeable future.

There are only a handful of clearly additive programs left for the B1G and/or SEC: Notre Dame, Florida State, Clemson, and UNC. Then there are a group that may be additive, but are not clear cut additions, including but not necessarily limited to: Miami, Virginia, Virginia Tech, NC State, Duke. I'd throw some of the four corners schools as wild cards for the B1G as well.

We're going to end up with 18-20 schools in the SEC, and the B1G will almost certainly end up with 20+. Expect a weird ACC-Big 12 Frankenstein conference to form and sort of hang around as a third "Power Three" conference. I'd also wager quite a lot that Notre Dame finally caves and joins the B1G if/when the ACC implodes.

If I was forced to guess, I'd say that the SEC will add FSU, Clemson, UNC, and Duke. I used to think VT would get that last spot, but I actually think there is real, underrated value in having a ratings gold mine for hoops in Duke, plus the biggest hoops rivalry. I think the SEC would like Virginia, but their administration will push for the B1G.

I think the B1G will add Notre Dame and Miami. It's conceivable they expand beyond 20 and add some more western schools to try to alleviate their current logistics nightmare. I could also see them adding Virginia and Georgia Tech. Hard to tell, I don't really understand the B1G's tactics. They added Rutgers and UCLA to a midwestern conference.

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fricking 12 is too many, to double that is just asinine

It’s amazing how much the sport has fallen off

Also, I can’t wait for it to come back

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I agree 12 is already too many. I disagree that the sport has fallen off. And I'd add that the post-season has always been the weak point of college football. But it has the best regular season of any sport/league.

Not one Mizzou fan will bite because we don't care about Missouri State. Happy that they have some solid programs.

I do wish that Missouri invested in its baseball program. They need to build a new stadium first (and ideally not on the coldest, windiest hill in Columbia since the first couple months of the season can be chilly in mid-Missouri). It does feel a bit like an "if you build it, they will come" scenario. Then it's time to fork out some cash for a splashy coaching hire. Missouri is a good high school baseball state and there used to be some level of baseball tradition there. Even recently, despite being a neglected program, Mizzou had some great players come through. I don't foresee Mizzou ever being consistently on the level of the top SEC programs, but it could be a whole lot better funded than it is now.

I think after Texas was added while Aggy kicked and screamed all the way, the “gentlemen’s agreement” is off.

I watched some of the Iowa State-Syracuse March Madness game at a bar, and I couldn't stop watching because of this gal. Pretty fun to watch, the rest of her team ... not so much.

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It was resolved when FSU and Clemson settled with the ACC last year

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Partially resolved. And based on your AD's statements, there might be a deal in the works to completely resolve it.

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They've been dangling in the breeze for a while as the ACC sort of drifts along. You would think the SEC would have snapped them up a while ago if the interest was there.

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As Greg Sankey put it a year or two ago, the ACC teams "have a grant of rights problem". Until that is resolved, the B1G and SEC aren't touching any ACC school since the ACC owns their media rights thru 2036.

Arkansas will lose to Mizzou.

Football fits in the SEC. Basketball belongs in the Sun Belt. Baseball belongs in t-ball.

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I mean no disrespect when I say this, but they were a middle of the road Big 12 team so what did they think would happen here?

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That’s a bit revisionist. Mizzou was better than middle of the road for most of the Big Eight/Big 12 years. Always choked in the NCAA Tournament though.

The SEC years have been rough. And despite what Arkansas football fans think, if your program has been bad for a dozen years or more, they’re a bad program, no longer just going through a rough patch. Mizzou hoops is just a bad program at this point.