SEC will one day poach best of ACC, Big 12 as football money gap grows
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Can The SEC be poached? The only poached free conference would be The B1G. I can think of a scenario where any conference but the Big Ten can be poached.
Missouri would absolutely jump at the chance of getting back into the Big Ten considerations. The SEC might be a great conference however it doesn't provide "the overalls" institutions like Missouri would rather. No lost you may say, but Mizzou has been to multiple SEC title games, they've delivered a lucrative area to The SEC Network and with The ST Louis Rams gone the potential for a good fanbase are great. LSU isn't completely happy with the SEC either.
Before anyone jumps down my throat and calls me crazy, I brought up the resentment that Nebraska and Oklahoma had towards Texas in the Big 12 back in 05.
Missouri would absolutely jump at the chance of getting back into the Big Ten considerations. The SEC might be a great conference however it doesn't provide "the overalls" institutions like Missouri would rather. No lost you may say, but Mizzou has been to multiple SEC title games, they've delivered a lucrative area to The SEC Network and with The ST Louis Rams gone the potential for a good fanbase are great. LSU isn't completely happy with the SEC either.
Before anyone jumps down my throat and calls me crazy, I brought up the resentment that Nebraska and Oklahoma had towards Texas in the Big 12 back in 05.
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Mizzou has bigger problems to worry about than conference realignment...plummeting enrollment and crazy internal turmoil...the SEC has no exit fee...anyone can leave at any time...if any institution is stupid enough to leave, the would be replaced almost immediately...oh and l$u is going nowhere...bank on that!
It will be interesting to see if the possible changing of viewing habits has an affect on conference realignment. Putting aside the alleged gentlemen's agreement that keeps Clemson and FSU out of the SEC, right now they duplicate tv markets. However, as streaming (possibly) takes over for tv viewing, perhaps duplicating tv markets is no longer an issue. I know that there is still the issue with the battle for in-state recruits, but we all know that $ usually trumps everything else in the end.
You think it'll be stupid of them to leave the SEC for the Big Ten? Really........? AAU? CIC $$$? Stupid Really? Even the academic snobs who run Florida, Georgia, and Vanderbilts Administration would be forced to strongly consider if an offer was made. Those three schools would ultimately declined however due to SEC football beer muscle, but Missouri would jump immediately. They're part of The SEC, but they are not all the way SEC.
LSU won't go anywhere because The B12 is a sinking ship and the Big Ten wouldn't extend the offer even if they were even the last school on the planet.
There is much bitterness in Columbia, Mo. toward the B1G. School officials felt conference representatives lied to them in the run-up to inviting kNU. B1G officials likely played MU for fools and were correct. I don't think there is the slightest chance either the B1G or Mizzou is interested in each other.
I could see the SEC taking two teams from either the B12 or the ACC but not from both. 16 is a much better, less messy number than either 18 or 14. If the SEC looks west, rather than east, meaning that it invites TX and OU, that would put the Pac12 in something of a bind, leaving them geographically an island concentrated in the Pacific time zone, with just a couple of exceptions. That has been at least partly responsible for the failure of their conference network to be a bigger success since so many of their games - and not just in football - end too late for the people in the eastern time zone, and to a certain extent, in the central time zone as well.
I also doubt that if the SEC raids the ACC, they would take Clemson and FSU. I think they would go for universities in new states that would enhance their network subscriptions. That would most likely mean VPI and NC State, assuming that the B1G adds UVa and UNC.
I also doubt that if the SEC raids the ACC, they would take Clemson and FSU. I think they would go for universities in new states that would enhance their network subscriptions. That would most likely mean VPI and NC State, assuming that the B1G adds UVa and UNC.
One of the stumbling blocks is the two time zone jump with a huge impact on all sports except football. Half of those teams games (basketball and volleyball for example) might now extend game times close to or past midnight in Austin and Norman. Not ideal for either TV watching fans or, in particular, the "student-athletes."
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