Texas and OU can join the SEC a year early in time to participate in the ’24 football season.
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That's crazy. Shows you how much they want out of that league to pay $100 million.
They will probably schedule us @Texas and @Oklahoma to start that season...
Means this is the last year with our normal divisions. I’d much rather go back to the conferences before Nebraska, Mizzou and A&M left the Big 12. I understand why it happens, but it was more fun back then in my opinion.
I’m cool with that. We’ll have Jaden Rashada transfer in with a nice check written from Jim Host and Joe Craft since Magilla’s employer JAY M EYE are HOLDING US BACK.
Simple math. SEC just announced that 2022 $$ distribution is $49.9M per team. With new ESPN deal & CFB playoff that goes to $75M/ea. Tx & Ok now get $29M or so from B12.
Shits on now boys, reality of 9 game division less sched a reality in a yr & a half. Less Vandy/Mizzou/S Carolina, more Bama/LSU/Texas a&m/Oklahoma. Better continue to figure out NIL, pay well Coen/White/Marrow, mine the portal.
Football in 2024 starts a new era. I like it. The Big Ten is also eliminating divisions in 2024 when UCLA and USC join the conference. They are working out the scheduling at a meeting later this month: protected rivals and opponent frequency.
"The Big Ten will use a 3-6-6 scheduling format, in which teams play three set opponents every year, with the other 12 in every-other-year rotations of six teams. This guarantees Big Ten teams will play everyone else in the conference in two-year spans."
"The Big Ten will use a 3-6-6 scheduling format, in which teams play three set opponents every year, with the other 12 in every-other-year rotations of six teams. This guarantees Big Ten teams will play everyone else in the conference in two-year spans."
Good
Get in with nine game schedule In conference
We should be walking away from UL game and let Brohm and line beard fans kick rocks
Get in with nine game schedule In conference
We should be walking away from UL game and let Brohm and line beard fans kick rocks
Will the reformed Big 12 still be a P5 conference? Will the Pac12? Hard to see a way teams from either of those conferences can compete with SEC and B10 $$$$$. ACC is content to stand pat? And, maybe, be #3 best conference but a huge gulf between #2 and #3?
UK athletics ought to profit from the new bucks but I don't see how this seismic shift benefits CFB. SEC and B10 will be head and shoulders above every other conference. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out in a few years but I think CFB west of the Mississippi will become a wasteland filled with G5 level teams.
B10 and SEC will become semipro leagues with very little outside competition.
UK athletics ought to profit from the new bucks but I don't see how this seismic shift benefits CFB. SEC and B10 will be head and shoulders above every other conference. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out in a few years but I think CFB west of the Mississippi will become a wasteland filled with G5 level teams.
B10 and SEC will become semipro leagues with very little outside competition.
Sorry, losing the UofL game is not a win from the fans’ perspective. Typically the most intense and compelling game. The modern series has been very even. It’s good for the state for us to play each other. Losing that to preserve MAC school games effing blows
Acc will merge with remaining big12 teams and pac12, drop some stragglers. They'll be a little below the other 2 most years, but will benefit from a lighter schedule by not being as beat up when the post season arrives. Same as they have been.
We are entering a new universe friend; doesn't matter what a conference is.
Top 6 conference champions get an auto bid to the CFB playoff. Even as awful as the strip mined Big 12 & pac 12 are, their champs will be in the 12 team playoff.
Piss on U6. They'd be in the OVC now had Newton not saved their ass.
It's a Big 2, what's left in the other 3 conferences is basically the new group of 5 at this point.
The same grant of rights deal that has kept the ACC together also keeps it from expanding. The second they try to make any changes it gives FSU, UNC, and a few other of their desirable schools the out they need to go to the SEC or Big 10.
Those folks really are smart figuring out the best scheduling format in a year while the SEC hasn't figured it out in three.
USCw, UCLA, TX, A&M, OK, MO, AR, NE, IA are west of the Mississippi.
Doubt the schools themselves actually "pay" much of it. Most of the $100 million will come from distributed Big12 revenues and distributed to the rest of the league. Pretty sure the SEC would cover much of the rest to get them here a year earlier.
Can see both going to 18-20 teams at some point, and there ultimately being 3 Super conferences.
One thing for sure is that Texas and Oklahoma will be disappointed to find out there will be no more 11 and 1 or 12 and 0 records for them in this conference. Their fans are always saying we can play with the SEC, well maybe sometimes, but it's teams like Ole Miss and Miss. State that will get them. There are no easy games, and it will be culture shock for them.
Focus on the best way to get an SEC championship. Our guys having to play at the highest intensity for nine games will be hard to do anyway. Like Vandy this season, it will be hard to not lose a game or two as it is. Because of the importance of in state recruiting and it being a no win situation for us win or lose against UL that is just another game to have to be sky high for. It makes no sense if your goal is to win an SEC championship. Forget being good for the state. Think being good nationally. That is what we are trying to build. UL game is the little picture while winning a championship is the big picture. The most serious fans have to want what is best for us to compete for championships. UL is a nothing in that equation.
Great then let’s play them and keep pummeling them. I cheer for UK to beat our rivals, not to maximize a conference payout check.
Play UofL for a couple more years to get the lead in the modern series then dump it, that game does nothing for us going forward.
Kinda wish the SEC would play hardball with the ACC and stop scheduling them period. Go for the death blow, Big 10 could do the same with Notre Dame and both conferences could get all the teams they want.
Kinda wish the SEC would play hardball with the ACC and stop scheduling them period. Go for the death blow, Big 10 could do the same with Notre Dame and both conferences could get all the teams they want.
I would love to see U6 relegated back to Conference USA and not get picked up. We need to poach 4 ACC teams and let the BIG finish the job with a few as well.
Agree don't see how Pac12 or Big 12 will be able to compete with the the 2 Big conferences. From what I understand the ACC doesn't have a choice until 2035 with how each school's media rights tied up like they are.
Sorry, should have been clearer. I meant the conferences west of the Mississippi (Pac 12, Big 12, WAC, et al) will be a wasteland once TX, OU move to the SEC and USC, UCLA move to B10. All the teams you mentioned are/will be SEC or B10 teams after the moves I mentioned.
No data, but if I had to guess: The people who badly want to keep playing LV are the same ones who keep starting LV threads on this forum to taunt them. Let the sleeping peckerheads sleep.
Funny statistics from SEC commish Sankey: the longest new SEC roadtrip is S Carolina to Texas. (Or some geographers say Gainesville- Oklahoma
And that is still shorter than any trip USC & UCLA will make to any of the 14 schools they are joining. Even Nebraska.
And that is still shorter than any trip USC & UCLA will make to any of the 14 schools they are joining. Even Nebraska.
Absolutely. They need that game. It's the only way they have any chance at relevance. We have nothing to gain.
Good
That just means we Knockem out sooner rather than later
That just means we Knockem out sooner rather than later
That's just way to many. You'd hardly ever get to play all the other teams unless you expand the conference season a couple of games and rotate nearly all the opponents. I'm not sure either would happen. It would kill so many schools/conferences not getting the money from playing power conference schools and there are to many rivalry games in the SEC that they couldn't end.
You'd probably have to go to at least a 10 conference game schedule. If they keep 3 permanent opponents, that's 7 rotating opponents. So at 20 teams, you'd only play everyone like once every 3 years and the return game would possibly be another 3 years later. That's unless they set it up in back to back years. That would push some games out even further. We already have to wait quite a few years to play some teams with 8 games and 14 teams.
I think they should stop at 16 with 4 super conferences. Then go to a 9 conference game schedule. They could do 2 permanent games with 7 rotating. That's only 2 years to play everyone and 4 years for the return game. That's if they don't do back to back home/away games.
Bottom line. Good financially for all SEC schools including us. No reason to be scared. Contrary to popular belief, UK is well represented in the halls of SEC management.
The SEC is going to be a college version of the NFL. It will be so competitive the days of going undefeated are going to be exception not the rule. The portal and NIL will make it harder and harder to build depth.
With the playoff 3 losses in SEC may still be viable. Any team can get you at any point.
Then the potential of adding a FSU and Clemson to the SEC good freakin luck. If I was SEC I add Virginia and UNC. Two markets you don’t have with OK football brands. The SEC doesn’t need more powerful programs.
With the playoff 3 losses in SEC may still be viable. Any team can get you at any point.
Then the potential of adding a FSU and Clemson to the SEC good freakin luck. If I was SEC I add Virginia and UNC. Two markets you don’t have with OK football brands. The SEC doesn’t need more powerful programs.
UNC won't ever leave the ACC because of basketball in my opinion. ESPN would lose it not being able to have their slurpfest over the Duke/UNC game 2 or 3 times a year. You might have a better shot at NC State. Probably have a better shot at VT instead of Virginia as well.
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