North Carolina and Texas Expansion?

[Gundawg]

Is this Slive's masterplan? Duke, North Carolina, UT and A&M... Two new states to theSEC-

Meanwhile, Kirk Bohls of The Austin American-Statesman claims that a “well placed Southeastern Conference figure” told him that Slive has a vision for expansion that no one else has discussed.<br align="left"><br align="left">“I think Mike Slive’s dream is to add Texas, Texas A&M, North Carolina and Duke. That would add the state of Texas as well as the Charlotte and Raleigh markets.”<br align="left">

Link http://www.mrsec.com/

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Hell yeah. And it brings some academic prestige too.

 

[ScoobaDawg]

Ughh that might be Slives dream expanion but I can't see no way in hell that ever happens.. Texas is a longhot as is..but UNC and DUKE...Thats just dreaming.

 

[Faustdog]

but they aren't going anywhere. They care much more about their basketball rivalries than they would about being a part of such a football heavy conference. We would also have to take Duke and NC State, and that isn't happening.

 

[urethrafranklin]

I came here from North Carolina, and i'm not an expert by any means, but i don't get the feeling that they have the same sense of state athletic cohesion that texas seemed to have. certainly not between UNC and duke. The members of the lawmaking bodies are pretty evenly split amongst the UNC schools (5 of them i think, and they're all pretty decently sized), elon, wake forest, campbell, app state, davidson, blah blah blah.<div>
</div><div>there's too many schools and too many conferences, and to be honest, athletics just aren't as important as they are down here. While UNC is a basketball school, they'd really like to have a shot at a football national championship also -- and they're confident butch davis will get them to that level, but they also don't think that the ACC will submit a team to the national championship. I think they're looking to go to another conference, and if the AD is interested in the SEC, they would probably be willing to come.</div><div>
</div><div>Biggest issue: I think Kentucky scares them. UK has shown that they are willing to face sanctions to win championships, and UNC has kept itself below the NCAA's radar for one reason or another.</div>

 

[captaindawg]

and way to unlikely to happen. Adding those markets plus the academic reputations of UNC, Duke and Texas would create the best of all situations.