The folks at SEC Shorts couldn't resist taking a poke at Texas. Who can blame them?
Yeah, sometimes dollars really do blind. Why does the SEC want to see its best teams beat each other up during the regular season? The current structure is fine although the permanent opponent crap needs to be abolished. Allowing Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC means Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Auburn, Texas A&M, and yes, eventually Tennessee are going to knock each other off during the regular season.
Bad idea.
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With playoff expansion this might ultimately make sense. Dollars and cents.
With realignment: Texas and Oklahoma to the West and either Ole Miss and MSU
OR Alabama and Auburn to the East. Tough choice.
With the NIL, college football will decline in the coming years. College baseball may be the only sport left to enjoy. I hope that I'm wrong.
I don't disagree with you on realignment. First of all, Missouri needs to be moved to the West. They are way out of place and more natural rivalries with WEst teams. Move Vandy East. Hate to lose Bama and Auburn, but probably have to.
West:
LSU
A&M
Ole Miss
State
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
OU
East:
Bama
Auburn
Vandy
GA
SC
FL
TN
KY
The Longhorns have destroyed two conferences by insisting that they be paid more then other members. I will be shocked if the SEC doesn't insist on a clear understanding that we don't operate that way and never will.
I have seen multiple reports saying it's more likely they will have four divisions of four teams each. That seems a better deal. You would play three teams in your division every year and would be able to play every team within a four year period.
Realigned, 8-school SEC divisions will never happen. Divisions are history. The conference will move to four 4-school pods instead. This will make scheduling rotation much easier. The most common pod lineup I’ve seen discussed is: 1. A&M, Texas, OU, and Arkansas; 2. LSU, Ole Miss, State, Mizzou; 3. Bama, Auburn, Vandy, Tennessee; 4. Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina. The championship game will be reconfigured, or ended altogether. All of this is fluid speculation.
If Texas is admitted into the SEC, they will have to acknowledge (by contract) that every school has an equal vote and voice, and every school gets the same split of conference revenue. There will be no throwing of weight around because all of the “big boys” (Bama, UGa, Florida, LSU, OU, A&M, Texas, etc.) collectively cannot be intimidated or run over, unlike in the Big 12, where there were only two “big boys.”
5:51 - While you giving your opinion of Missouri being 'out of place', how do you justify Oklahoma or Texas for that matter, being anywhere geographically near the southeast?
Let's go ahead and root for JSU to join the conference for no other reason than to let Ole Myth enjoy not being on the bottom so often.
"While you giving your opinion of Missouri being 'out of place', how do you justify Oklahoma or Texas for that matter, being anywhere geographically near the southeast"?
Ageed. Unless one is talking about the Confederate States of America,
Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri & Oklahoma have no business being in the SEC.
" Let's go ahead and root for JSU to join the conference".
I kind of agree with that. JSU would provide more entertainment than a Southern Miss. ( They would probably sell more tickets as well).
Ageed. Unless one is talking about the Confederate States of America,
Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri & Oklahoma have no business being in the SEC.
Ah, Dumbo, the Confederate States of America has nothing to do with this subject. Geography existed before the CSA and exists after the CSA. Neither Texas nor Oklahoma, nor Missou for that matter, are geographically in the Southeast. If you want the CSA to overlap with the SEC, why not add Virginia Tech?
But, yes...if you wanta see highway 25 and all of Oktibbeha and half of Lowndes turn into Jackson several days a year, go ahead and add JSU. JSU has never beaten OM or MSU...Southern Miss has beaten them both as well as Alabama. MSU already has black alumni weekend for three or four days. This would put it on steroids. Sorry Charlie...
What we know right now, is we don't know. Nuff said.
Danny Hugh Freeze would give his left nutt (pun intended) to get back in the SEC. Why not add Liberty U? That would satisfy his goal and please a lot of TSUN folk who still worship at his altar.
I still can’t see anyone beating Alabama. Oklahoma can never win the Big Game. Texas hires a new coach every three seasons, it seems. Not sure if joining the SEC is a good idea, though, considering the amount of competition already in the conference, minus Arkansas of course.
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