What's Slive's move here?...

[Xenomorph]

Quiet to the media but working behind the scenes? (doubtful, cause no way anybody keeps their mouth shut if he's talking to them).

Playing possum til the last minute where he'll spring the trap and vault the SEC into the future of college athletics?

Electing to stand pat regardless?

 

[Xenomorph]

Quiet to the media but working behind the scenes? (doubtful, cause no way anybody keeps their mouth shut if he's talking to them).

Playing possum til the last minute where he'll spring the trap and vault the SEC into the future of college athletics?

Electing to stand pat regardless?

 

[jackstefano]

Or something close to that. You wait for suitors to kiss the ring, not the other way around.

 

[Shmuley]

speculation that it's FSU, GT, Miami and Clemson. You move Vandy and Tennessee to the west.

 

[615dawg]

with Vandy and Kentucky moving to the West.

 

[ckDOG]

I'll take it!

(I'm assuming a similar West-East format w/ a "6 division games + 2 non-division games rotation" format for football- would that be likely?)

 

[615dawg]

all of this is a precursor to a playoff.

 

[615dawg]

You add two regional hosts and two super regional hosts to a conference that already boasted four regional hosts and a super regional hosts. That expanded SEC would occupy 8 of the 16 remaining teams.

 

[JimHalpert.nafoom]

Comparatively, at least.

 

[rugbdawg]

and State. The UT-Vandy basketball rivalry is pretty heated.

 

[jakldawg]

that we're on the brink of is that every single sport that isn't football is; at best, a total afterthought. TV sets watching football is what this is all about.<div>Case in point: Kansas. A basketball team that plays on a court named for the inventor of the sport might end up on the outside looking in.
<div>(just something to keep in mind before we go speculating about where we might fit in).</div></div>

 

[Hotel Roosevelt]

but with the way MSU has played football the last decade I don't mind a comparatively easier division. If you had asked me circa-1999 I probably would have been a bit bolder and wanted a tough division instead.

 

[Dawgpile]

On topic, I seriously think that aTm might split from Texas and wind up joining the SEC.

If I'm Slive, I would be working the angle that they would always be 2nd fiddle to UT, the cultural fit, and West coast games that start at 10pm central.The Aggies wouldhave some old rivals in Arky and LSU, and we're after OU too, but we might take Baylor or Houston if that sweetens the pot. .

UTexas may be the "prettiest girl at the dance", but she's a totally high-maintenance ***** that thinks she's better than you. aTm gives you a foothold in Texas inboth TV and recruiting.

My first choices for adds to theEast would be VaTechand North Carolina for the new TV markets. FSU is my 1st alternate, then Clemson.

I refuse to believe the SEC/Slive is going to sit on their hands thru all this. The brass ring is there; You just have to reach for it. </p>

 

[tossedoff]

that the others don't. SEC schools make money on baseball mostly (I believe) where other conferences don't. Baseball is at least 3 times as important in the SEC than any other conference.

 

[patdog]

nm

 

[mstateglfr]

that the others don't. SEC schools make money on baseball mostly (I believe) where other conferences don't. Baseball is at least 3 times as important in the SEC than any other conference.

Every program.

Now i dont know the stats before that, and dont know em since then, but take that for what its worth.
Its the best i could find a couple weeks ago during a 5minute google search.

Seriously, EVERY program lost money that year.

I cant imagine its that way every year, but i also cant imagine every SEC program suddenly didnt profit that year.
Basically, baseball is hardly a money maker. It may end in the black, but since EVERY program LOST in a single year, it clearly isnt a revenue stream that even an SEC athletic dept should rely heavily on...if at all.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?st ory_id=120423505333048300

 

[AllAmericanDawg]

What if you added Baylor, A&M, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and moved Auburn and Alabama to the East?

1. LSU
2. Arkansas
3. Ole Miss
4. Mississippi State
5. Oklahoma State
6. Oklahoma
7. Texas A&M
8. Baylor

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1. Tennessee
2. Vanderbilt
3. Georgia
4. Florida
5. South Carolina
6. Kentucky
7. Auburn
8. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Alabama</span>

 

[Sutterkane]

They need to do away with the divisions anyway. Say what they want, but Vandy/UK vs UT is less of a rivalry than Ole Miss vs LSU. Bama and state have a better rivalry than either of those setups.

 

[Buford T. Justice]

I think it will be FSU and Clemson only with Vandy and Kentucky moving to the West.

If you add two teams only (FSU and Clemson) the league would have 14 teams. If you move both Vandy and Kentucky to the West, then theWest would have 8 teams and the East would have 6.Why notdo 7 and 7?

 

[RebelBruiser]

Vandy would just have to deal with losing their rivalry with UT. It's not much of a rivalry anyway.

 

[SirBarksalot]

nm

 

[BellyButtonOatmeal]

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[jcdawgman18]

I'm wondering how long it's going to take for people to realize that.

 

[elmsurfer1]

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[patdog]

that rule can be changed. Or the 8 biggest schools could all leave the SEC to form a new league. I really doubt it happens, but it damn well could.

 

[ckDOG]

Although not likely, there's nothing stopping from SEC v2.0 being formed.

It's simple...Bama, Auburn, LSU, UT, UGA, UF, and UK (for bball) get in a room and say "let's bail on the SEC and get Texas, TAMU, Oklahoma, FSU, and UNC to join us in a new conference and create an even better football conference (with a huge upgrade in bball) with a ginormous TV market and only 12 teams to split the revenues amongst."

Nothing could stop that to my knowledge, except the logistics involved in making that happen. You would have to get the 7 SEC programs on board with buying into the notion of leaving the conference that's fed so well for so many years (all of this behind closed doors) and the new programs lined up and ready to go (all of this behind closed doors).

Again, not likely, but not impossible, either.