If The SEC Was Being Created Today

[TrueOrange]

Agree..VaTech is better cultural fit but it would be UVA thinking about it a little more...

Honestly, I'd be a bit interested to see how willing they'd be on still doubling down with multiple teams in the state of Alabama in such scenario...Auburn might ended up getting the short end of the stick.

 

[TrueOrange]

I honestly think we may go to 20 teams in the SEC with 5 teams each in 4 Divisions.

After they got rid of divisions, they're never going to reestablish them again without some overseeing governing body forcing them to do so.

 

[Sudden Impact]

After they got rid of divisions, they're never going to reestablish them again without some overseeing governing body forcing them to do so.

Exactly. LT plan one would think dependent on Other conferences and NCAA. Think ahead to a farm type NFL structure. I hate it, but 10 years from now college football will not look the same as most of us knew it.

 

[bamawriter]

If the SEC was being created today, which other college in the state do you think would be chosen to join the Vols and why?

None of the above.

The only states with multiple teams would be Texas and Florida. Vandy, Auburn, and MSU would be hanging out in the Sun Belt.

 

[Delmar]

None of the above.

The only states with multiple teams would be Texas and Florida. Vandy, Auburn, and MSU would be hanging out in the Sun Belt.

Exactly. None of those poll choices fit the profile of the SEC and that includes Vanderbilt. (That being largely state/land grant universities.) Vanderbilt got in a long time ago and we just put up with them to raise the conference GPA. They’ve been sponging off the other schools’ athletic income for years.

 

[Vol524]

None of them. To be totally honest, I would like to remove some teams. If not, we need to change the name. We are not the Southeastern Conference with teams from the Midwest as members. JMHO

 

[OrangeTsar]

Sewanee by Thunder!!!!

12 and 0 in a 10 week stretch by gosh.

One of history’s great programs

 

[OrangeTsar]

But seriously. SEC should be limited to schools East of the Mississippi River and South of the Ohio (you know, the “southeast”)

 

[RandomUTfan]

If the SEC was being created today, which other college in the state do you think would be chosen to join the Vols and why?

I'm abstaining because I don't see Sewanee.

 

[OrangeTsar]

I'm abstaining because I don't see Sewanee.

Another enlightened soul who gets it

 

[RandomUTfan]

Another enlightened soul who gets it

On the road to enlightenment my brother, as we all are. But not there yet. Got a road map though. Love to you.

 

[207 others]

Sewanee or BUST

 

[DiderotsGhost]

If they were forced to pick 2 from Tennessee, it'd still be Vanderbilt.

But if they could pick from wherever, I think it's more likely that Vanderbilt's spot goes to UNC, Clemson, Miami, or Virginia Tech.

 

[zjcvols]

None of the above.

The only states with multiple teams would be Texas and Florida. Vandy, Auburn, and MSU would be hanging out in the Sun Belt.

I feel like Kentucky would also not be in the SEC. Maybe their basketball is strong enough to keep them in though.

 

[TrueOrange]

I feel like Kentucky would also not be in the SEC. Maybe their basketball is strong enough to keep them in though.

They'd still be in. 26th most populated state isn't great, but it South Carolina and Alabama each got a team included and (on the lower ends) Arkansas and Mississippi each got a team included, then the state of Kentucky would easily get a team included.

 

[hog88]

Can we kick Missouri and Texas A&M out now the we have Texas and Oklahoma in?

Can we kick all 4 out?

 

[kckempf]

I think we'd skip all of them, and Vanderbilt would be where it belongs in Division III with Emory, instead of aspiring to have facilities as good as Mississippi State's.