If the SEC were to add four more teams, who would you want to see join the league?

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Volunteer_Kirby said:
SMU, TCU both trending up in viewership and followership. SEC racing against B1G for more TV revenue while the lower conferences are hiring entertainment execs to run their conferences. The idea is to get as many eyes on the product as possible and those teams help achieve that goal. I think it's also a matter of how much weight (aka booster money) a program can handle -- Houston is already well on that trajectory. SMU/TTU/TCU have similar weight.
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SMU is a joke just stop.

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Volunteer_Kirby said:
SMU has been in the ACC a literal year and has a playoff appearance. We are talking future prospective SEC members here and these things don't happen overnight.

Market is there and is growing, it's not really up to you to decide that.
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Alright Knoxvilledamus they have the worst numbers out of the Big-12 and ACC please post the Power Ball numbers.

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Krunchi said:
Alright Knoxvilledamus they have the worst numbers out of the Big-12 and ACC please post the Power Ball numbers.

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First year P5 here and we are talking future prospects for SEC. Why gatekeep? I think you underestimate how absolute psychotic this sport has become.
 
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patrick said:
My top four:

North Carolina
Clemson
Florida State
Ga. Tech.
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Georgia Tech was and should be again! Old Man went to Tech and then to UT. I remember going to the games. NC for basketball and academics. I had several friends that were rabid Clemson fands. Florida
State, I don't know? I'd like to Oklahoma State. Ties in with the old BIg 8 Conference.
 
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In my opinion, if we added 4 more teams, then we should go back to divisions again and have the SEC CG be represented by the 2 division winners. Go to 9 conference games, with 8 division games and one rotating opponent from the other division...

SEC East

Clemson
Florida
FSU
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

SEC West

Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
MSU
Missouri
Oklahoma
Ole Miss
Texas
Texas A&M
 
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Adding 4 more teams would be too much unless we get rid of some other programs.

Trade the ACC Vandy, MSST, for FSU, VT.

UNC needs to expand their football stadium another 10-20k at minimum, then we can talk.

Clemson would be overlapping South Carolina's program so not sure if both could exist in the conference at a high level.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
No more Florida or Texas schools, although FSU would be a great addition.

I'd like to see:
GT
NC
Clemson
Virginia Tech
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There is only one Florida school in the SEC. Would be nice to give them some in-state recruiting competition and take away their edge as the only SEC school in Florida.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
I'm mostly referring to what's along 81. There's a bunch of the more rural parts of the state I can't speak to. It stands to reason they have a southern culture. But there isn't a school of note in sports there, or much of anything really.

I'm curious, do you consider Richmond the south? Because I decidedly don't.
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There's JMU outside of NoVa and Hampton Roads.
When I knew Richmond well in the 60's and 70's it was certainly Southern. Of course so were Fredericksburg, Fairfax, Leesburg, Williamsburg, etc. I'd say today it's more Southern than not.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
SMU has been in the ACC a literal year and has a playoff appearance. We are talking future prospective SEC members here and these things don't happen overnight.

Market is there and is growing, it's not really up to you to decide that.
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Its really not worth arguing over as Texas and Oklahoma would NEVER allow that to happen and the SEC is not about to piss Texas off.
 
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IOWA
WEST VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
VIRGINIA

(Vandy and Virginia together will make our conference very strong in academia standing)

Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri , West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Virginia - would make for very entertaining North (SEC) rivalries. None of those states (save Tennessee and North Carolina) have a good amount of In-State talent and it would be interesting to see all of them go toe-toe every recruiting year…

(Need to keep the State School pattern as much possible in our conference)
 
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EasternVol said:
There's JMU outside of NoVa and Hampton Roads.
When I knew Richmond well in the 60's and 70's it was certainly Southern. Of course so were Fredericksburg, Fairfax, Leesburg, Williamsburg, etc. I'd say today it's more Southern than not.
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I've got family in Richmond and have spent a fair bit of time there over the years. I would have said it was southern in the 80s amd 90s. Not so much anymore.
 
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I would add Pittsburgh and Cincinatti to increase footprint into B1G country. I would add 2 NC teams (NC, Duke, NCst). That would water down their recruiting some. Miami and/FL St to give the Gators fits. Same for Clemson and SCar or Louisville and KY.

Other than that, you have Louisville, Notre Douce, VA/VT, and Kan/Kan St/Neb.

I feel like in 10 years we will have 2 Super-Conferences with the BiG and SEC about 24-32 teams each. Not saying it's for the best but that is the direction we are going.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
SMU has been in the ACC a literal year and has a playoff appearance. We are talking future prospective SEC members here and these things don't happen overnight.

Market is there and is growing, it's not really up to you to decide that.
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I find this to be more an indictment of the $hittyness of the ACC than SMU being a game changing addition to the SEC. They have a lot of $$, but so does Texas and aTm, and I don’t think they add much value w/ the DFW tv market that doesn’t already exist. The same way that I don’t think GT adds any Atlanta metro viewers. They’re not worth the extra split of revenue IMO. Established brands in untapped TV markets is probably going to get us to get Carolina and a Virginia school.
 
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OrangeScare said:
lol sorry your offended. I stand on what I said. WV is a good place to be from. It has mountains which is about the only similarity to East TN. It’s closer to Western Kentucky but the people have terrible northern accents. Miami has more money probably than the whole state of WV and for sure has more Championships.
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Understand ya brother, we are a defensive people LOL. I lived in coconut grove near coral Gables I never saw much passion there man, half empty stadium like 45 mins from campus. I stand that Florida international should be before Miami lots of money too, like 50k students, and they beat Miami these days
 
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