Yeah, not sure but the Carolina markets seem to be prototypical southern markets and probably conform to the “football all weekend long” southern tradition.
We don’t need more good football programs joining the SEC. UK has it tough enough on the gridiron. Heck we have UT and OU coming aboard.
I would imagine. They aren’t very far apart at all. A&M has a really cool campus too.
Doubt Wake or Duke, Maybe NC State? UofL I really doubt. OK state do not gain anything really. Kansas maybe if you want to go that direction. UNC or NC State / Virginia or VA Tech a combo of 1 of each state and then you have to come up with the other 2. I hate Miami but they make the most sense from the state of Florida, Notre Dame makes no sense geographically but makes a lot of sense for market and brand, Kansas makes sense for Mizzou, OKlahoma and Texas / Texas AM.
Ya. Seems like there are a few options. ACC contract is probably the only reason another move hasn't happened. Although Florida State to the Big Ten. How is that. Just a verbal commitment at this point.
I agree. I know we would never do it, but I would love adding Duke and UNC. That would make the SEC the premier conference in both basketball and football.
Not sure about the FSU commitment and how it works. Have been on acc boards and there are 7 schools ready to leave ACC now. If they get the 8th school evidently the rights is over and they can leave. So maybe FSU regents and such know something we do not know? Personally I would like to have UNC / Virginia / VA Tech / Kansas enter the SEC. Would help with football (Va Tech and UNC) and basketball (all 4). We need a couple other lower teams in the SEC football in new markets and Kansas and Virginia do that well. Then UNC market would be great. If we need another Florida school then i think Miami is the likely choice. Would love to see UNC football team head to Commonwealth Stadium on a Saturday in the near future, same with VA Tech. Heck would love the new rivalry of Kansas fan base with ours in football (lol). Virginia is just a natural rival (since we broke off from Virginia) as a state. So the ability to have a north division, south division, east and west division would be awesome. 5 games against division teams and 4 against other sec schools rotating. You could have a schedule for UK of: Kansas / Mizzou / Va Tech and Virginia and UNC or Tennessee as division and then play Texas / LSU / Florida and Ole Miss. That would be a powerful schedule and some great home and home games.
Duke should welcome being in a conference with us and UNC. It would strengthen that conference immediately.
I agree with that but like you said Pitt will not most likely happen. The Kansas thing is more eyes in the Kansas City Market area. Would not help for football but would give another Vanderbilt type of football program, could win 5 or so games every 4 to 6 years. It does help with recruiting footprint and tv market and it makes geographic sense for some of the big 12 we have picked up. Plus would not hurt our basketball stuff if we got Kansas and UNC in the SEC.
F no to Kansas. No way in hell would they get an invite to the SEC. Lol. Not happening.
They’ve been fairly decent in the past several years. They even beat Tennessee in the music city bowl at least in the last decade I believe
Makes since. Need to add more west coast teams so USC and UCLA can have some relief in travel and time zone issues. An east and west division that covers a good part of the country. I know they are no SEC. 1 title in 20 years In All major sports. WTF but they have managed this thing properly. The only way is to be out in the front. They aren't going anywhere now. Solid product.
Well, the Big 10 has always been the major that claims to care more about academics than the other majors. Adding those two would bolster that position. And it would give the Big 10 complete control over ALL of the West Coast's major TV markets ...which is a damn nice money incentive.
Or we could be 10-15 years away from the Big 10 and SEC joining together to break away from the NCAA entirely and forming their own whole new thing.
Conference expansion is being driven entirely by football revenue via TV contracts. Adding Kansas wouldn't be much (if any) better than adding UofL in terms of eyeballs. Seriously doubt it would ever be considered.
I would probably stick with 16, if I’m in charge.
Texas was a “southern state” during the Civil War. Missouri was a border state like Kentucky and a slave state before the war. Oklahoma is more southern geographically speaking than Kentucky. Culturally, Oklahoma is still a very rural state, so they share qualities with the South.
The SEC most likely will add as many as needed to match the market share the B1G is seeking to encompass. It comes down to how attractive the conference can be in a potential TV contract negotiation. Example; if the B1G claims they can deliver as many as 40 million eyeballs on game day and the SEC can only manage 25 million, obviously the B1G would get the fatter contract.
I agree with all that. My question was less tech and just a simple guess of where does this all stop.
I would wait and see what happens with the Big Ten (or is it the Big Twenty now?) if I’m the SEC. See if the “more is better” strategy works or not.
It will never ever get nearly that high. They ain't gonna add members just for the sake of it. Only schools that mean a significant net gain to the payout to each member will be considered. And that's a minimum qualification requirement.
Plus you still have to have the “have nots” to beat up on. Not everyone can have a winning record.
