It is about politics, and nothing else, you do not need any votes other than the one of the state where the potential new member is coming from, and, it only pertains to Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana State, and South Carolina. Those are the charter members plus SC that can veto...Florida would have to OK FSU, Miami; Georgia -Georgia Tech, Kentucky-Louisville, LSU-Tulane, South Carolina - Clemson. That is it.
To get out is a lot more than $120M exit fee. ACC would own all their TV money till 2035 no matter who pays it, ACC or SEC or Big 10.
No schools have veto rights. An invitation to join the SEC requires three-fourths of the member schools to vote yes.
I think the idea is if FSU and Clemson, for instance, said we’re leaving and will fight it out legally then your ULs and wake’s would be forced to make their own moves. I think that’s why you hear so many rumors of the “other schools” grouping together and talking to the B12.
Not sure a Bobby Bowden statement from 30 years ago is going to be very relevant.
The point being that FSU had its chance to join the SEC and that ship sailed long ago. FSU simply will not add value (revenue or top-rated academics) to the SEC, which already has a large footprint in the state with respect to recruiting and TV viewers.
Did you know ga tech and Tulane along with Kentucky were the founding members of the sec
Basketball doesn’t pay the bills, football does. Conference realignment is about nothing more than money. Texas and Oklahoma bring that WAY more than Duke and Kansas
I can dream. Hate having more great football teams to deal with. The basketball team has certainly benefited from this historically “semi-rec team” conference.
It’s as good as any conference in basketball now. Probably has something to do with football money too.
The ACC only needs 8 schools to agree to dissolve. It was reported they only needed 1 more, but couldn't get it. Also, ACC is trying to add schools which will make that 8 number go up and look in the Grant of Rights for the rebel schools for another decade.
Forget Miami. They are just Vandy on roids. They are a private school that does not fund athletics anywhere close to what the SEC does. They don't even have their own football stadium. They made some promises to lure Cristobal, but they are miles away from being attractive to the SEC.
Are you sure that adding schools would make the number go up? Doesn’t seem like the contract would work that way but I guess it could.
It's a 75% vote now, so 11/14 to admit UT & OU and 12/16 moving forward. There is no one school veto, though any school could have side agreements with other schools to vote as a block of veto votes, so that would now take 4 schools to collude.
Thanks for the veto info. I dont
Maybe, but I doubt it will be sustainable. Every other SECbb team has been crap tastic this year so far (except AU)
So was University of South/Suwanee. They left only after three years. Tech and Tulane stayed into around 1965. Ga. Tech advocated for limit on football scholarships which the big boys vetoed. Some said academics also had some part. Tulane was academics, $, and they weren't very competitive. Ga. Tech recovered by eventually joining the ACC. Tulane never really has although the last several years being part of the AAC and the fact that they are very competitive in football and baseball has helped them a lot. The original charter members besides the aforementioned three were Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Miss. State, LSU, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. They broke from the Southern Conference in 1933. In 1954, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, South Carolina, and Wake Forest left the Southern Conference to create the Atlantic Coast Conference. Beginning in 1954 until about say 1970 or so the Southern Conference contained West Virginia, VMI, Richmond, William & Mary, Davidson, Furman, Virginia Tech, Washington & Lee, The Citadel, and George Washington. Since then membership in the Southern has shifted sadly.
I'll be buried in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri!
One thing I can surmise from reading this is that we have a serious boner for seeking people lose their job.
No they won’t. It’s gonna be 2 super conference and they will never make more than the SEC maybe a couple years until the SEC signs a new deal for more $.
Indeed. As with any vote, members can vote as they wish and are allowed to collude, which would be necessary in order to prevent a school from joining the league, though it was brought up often during the UT/OU process, as aTm did not want UTx to join and Sankey said those old gentlemen's agreements were no longer valid in this current iteration of the SEC.
I want to know what Sankey has on the the Presidents and ADs in the league. He ruined college athletics by letting North Carolina at Chapel Hill walk thus the NIL and transfer portal and wild Wild West operations of college athletics. How can anything be enforced when you let the biggest cheaters of all time walk. Sankey has reversed the role between him and Presidents and ADs. He is supposed to work for them. He is supposed to carry out policy not dictate it. What an asshole.
