The state has close to 5 million people. Also, the football team has won 10 games twice in the past 5 years. Regularly going to bowl games. UK has invested into football heavily. You must be a basketball only fan. Missouri, Vandy, and South carolina would all be cut before UK.
Not a basketball fan only. It's a question boss. Why would you assume I'm a basketball fan only? Do you not understand economics as it relates to the question? Because if you do. And haven't asked yourself a similar question then well You may want to switch to the PAC 12 and watch what happens when you dont smart guy. You have to stay ahead of these things or you will be on the outside looking in. Just sayin...... it was a hypothetical
Your lack of general knowledge on the football team. No knowledgeable fan would actually put Kentucky down there with Vandy. You're still speaking like its 2012.
Stanford in the Atlantic Coast Conference… Man this shit is getting way out of hand.
So you are going on the tv market angle? I guess Cincinnati and Louisville would be key.
Thank you. I was just asking an opinion.
The SEC ain't kicking nobody out. That you can take to the bank.
I’d be inclined to agree. But really, what does Vandy bring? UT is easily the more popular program across the state, even the candy students don’t care. I do see a scenario where it’s worth forcing out an underperforming member to make way for a top tier team. This may be in a decade or so, but anything’s possible.
It would be very, very difficult to force out a charter member.
You, nor I, have enough money in the bank to matter.
we might not be saying that with the addition of Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida St or Clemson added in the mix.
NC State and Virginia Tech to SEC out of those two states if any come to the SEC. They are land grant schools and they “are the peoples’” universities in their respective states. The other two schools in those states to the B1G.
I’m good with that. I like both fanbases way better than the other two.
UNC and UVA fans come off as snotty to me.
You think UK is safe in the SEC? Bro, we’re founding members. We are safe as it gets, literally.
VT checks all of the boxes, brings the most consistency and offers the least amount of risk. The fans are SEC culture but I'm not so sure about the VT brass. If VT landed in the SEC the football team would have to drag the AD kicking and screaming.
I can easily see VT….they have the second largest cadet military program in the country behind Texas A&M and are underrated as a massive fan base and gets the SEC network carriage fee’s for the southern state of Virginia. There are credible arguments that outside of academic prestige Tech has almost every other advantage over UVA. Bigger football brand, larger local Alumni base in Virginia, better cultural fit etc. However in this current era of realignment “Brand” matters the most and generates the largest TV ratings and I don’t think NC State moves the needle enough. UNC are terrible cheaters but they are a Top 25 brand in college athletics and NC State just aren’t. So I think the SEC would turn NC State down in favor of Clemson or Florida State if UNC chooses the BIG Ten. I think the SEC would take either UVA or VA TECH just my humble opinion.
Clemson and F$U do not add to the SEC footprint like UNC or NCSU would. The purpose of getting one of them and one of UVA or VT is to add those markets.
Kentucky will be fine. Our recruiting has been solid, Kentucky had no choice but to get better and spend like a real “football school”. The revenue stream is unreal especially if you’re good.
you're comparing our recent upswing thinking that will continue while ignoring decades of futility. While I love the direction the program is going in, its not a stretch to say UK football is a program of droughts with the occasional breakout year. All it took was one OC to leave and the program fell apart last year.
I hope Duke gets left behind.
If the SEC gets UVA and UNC, I think all the old Confederate states would be accounted for, wouldn't they?
Why do you think we were terrible all those years?
Kentucky had a confederate government with full representation in confederate congress. We are the middle (13th) star on the confederate flag. With 40-50k soldiers fighting for the CSA and 76k for the union. Same for Missouri just higher union enlistments. So you could include us. We were both a union and confederate state. If we are being technical. Oklahoma was Indian colony and the tribes there fought for the CSA. So we got all the bases covered lol.
ND plays a harder schedule than every school in the SEC most years. Notre Dame has put out more pros in the past 20 years than everyone in the SEC besides Bama and Georgia.
