Texas A&M coming to the SEC????

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knucklehead_vol said:
I agree, but who else do they get? tu goes independent.
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they'd take texas tech before they'd take KU, and i'm not really sure how interested in TT - if at all - they'd even be

KU, as a basketball school also without a really large media market in the state, is pretty destined to get hurt here


but in all likelihood, this isn't going to turn into an arms race.....the pac 12 won't take KU just to have another body because the other conferences have some more




......plus, i mean, when one of these start to happen, the internet is going to start to light up with rumors about everyone's next immediate moves




also i'd be shocked to see mizzou accept a bid where they regularly have to travel across the country to the west coast (they are in the central time zone) for conference games
 
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I can't share everything I've been told, but here is a part of it

Yes, tamu is leaving on the 22nd as their BOR meeting is the 21st. Lot's of reasons and you will not see them play ut for a long time in any sport.

SEC is talking to FSU as was reported and also a few others including my brother's school Clemson. There are 4 others they are considering at the moment, but that is a fluid situation.

The Pac 12 would take OU and OSU and TT, but only if UT comes along. That still hasn't changed.

OU can't get an invite to the Big 10 as they want nothing to do with OSU, who is holding us back for the SEC right now too.

OU will most probably end up staying in a watered down conference who will add another texas team (you can speculate, but I've heard two different schools from two different cities mentioned by a few folks I speak with daily). If they were to expand, some of the names mentioned are a service academy, BYU along with a texas school and possibly a FL school.

I know that the BE is trying like heck to position themselves, but I don't see it happening. The ACC is about to be ravaged so their top schools will be looking for a conference. Will they end up merging with the Big 12? Would there be a working agreement and championship games between the Big 12 (with 8-10 teams) and the ACC or even a BE? Lot's of info from lot's of folks right now and it's all nuts, but tamu was gone as soon as ut offered up their network. That's when Byrne lost his ability to keep the voting members at bay like he did last year. Their debt is too big and they have a donor who is ponying up money to pay for their debt, upgrades and cost to move to the SEC quickly.
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This was on rivals, from a supposed OU insider. Thought it was interesting.
 
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UTCVol said:
KU, KSU, ISU, and Baylor are destined for the Mountain West imo. If the Big 12 collapses, that is.
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pretty much.



some possibility mizzou might be too if either the SEC doesn't offer it or the big 10 doesn't change its mind
 
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IMO any expansion by the SEC would be foolish..Adding another school or schools would only force more division of revenue without any tangible increase in revenue..The only reason to add A&M would be to expand the market availability of Texas and broaden the exposure of the SEC in that area..A&M would open access to the Houston/San Antonio/Dallas-Ft Worth areas which probably alone have about 14 million for population with another 2.5 million rural folks in there as well..The SEC can re-negotiate their TV contract if/when they add member(s) so that could be the increase in revenue that would compensate for the extra shares that would have to be given out..
As for the scheduling problems added members would create, there is no way to add additional regular season games or extra postseason games per NCAA rules..So short of the SEC and maybe the 5 other Big BCS conferences breaking free from the NCAA and forming their own "league", 12 reg season + 1 conference championship game + 1 postseason bowl game would be it for the schedule..
IMO 12 is the perfect number for the SEC and any other conference that chooses to expand can do so at their own peril..If the SEC dilutes their product further without SUBSTANTIAL financial windfalls to do so, IMO it will only lessen the degree of dominance they have over the rest of college football right now..
With that being said, I would hope that Tx A&M would be added ONLY if Oklahoma or Texas can be included as well and that is strictly from a selfish fan point of view..I think Okla or Texas would be a tremendous matchup for the SEC West and hopefully allow us to bring in one of the current West division teams to balance the ledger in the East(maybe Alabama, Auburn or one of the Miss schools)..
Unfortunately it appears that Mike Slive is so enamored with the whole "Super Conference" theory that his financial judgement has been impaired to the point of allowing delusions of grandeur to injure the SEC both financially and image-wise..That's a shame..But IMO Slive will allow expansion to happen, A&M will be an SEC member, and the only other question will be who else will be added as well...:twocents:
 
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they'd take texas tech before they'd take KU, and i'm not really sure how interested in TT - if at all - they'd even be



I can't see tt due to their academics. pac 12 is kinda snobby in that regards.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
they'd take texas tech before they'd take KU, and i'm not really sure how interested in TT - if at all - they'd even be

I can't see tt due to their academics. pac 12 is kinda snobby in that regards.
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Was saying they'd be more likely to even
take Texas tech before they'd take Kansas....to stress how low KU's chances of being invited there pretty much are

But thanks for clearing up that aspect of the PAC 12 a bit (esp in relationship to Texas tech)
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TnScooby said:
IMO any expansion by the SEC would be foolish..Adding another school or schools would only force more division of revenue without any tangible increase in revenue..The only reason to add A&M would be to expand the market availability of Texas and broaden the exposure of the SEC in that area..A&M would open access to the Houston/San Antonio/Dallas-Ft Worth areas which probably alone have about 14 million for population with another 2.5 million rural folks in there as well..The SEC can re-negotiate their TV contract if/when they add member(s) so that could be the increase in revenue that would compensate for the extra shares that would have to be given out..
As for the scheduling problems added members would create, there is no way to add additional regular season games or extra postseason games per NCAA rules..So short of the SEC and maybe the 5 other Big BCS conferences breaking free from the NCAA and forming their own "league", 12 reg season + 1 conference championship game + 1 postseason bowl game would be it for the schedule..
IMO 12 is the perfect number for the SEC and any other conference that chooses to expand can do so at their own peril..If the SEC dilutes their product further without SUBSTANTIAL financial windfalls to do so, IMO it will only lessen the degree of dominance they have over the rest of college football right now..
With that being said, I would hope that Tx A&M would be added ONLY if Oklahoma or Texas can be included as well and that is strictly from a selfish fan point of view..I think Okla or Texas would be a tremendous matchup for the SEC West and hopefully allow us to bring in one of the current West division teams to balance the ledger in the East(maybe Alabama, Auburn or one of the Miss schools)..
Unfortunately it appears that Mike Slive is so enamored with the whole "Super Conference" theory that his financial judgement has been impaired to the point of allowing delusions of grandeur to injure the SEC both financially and image-wise..That's a shame..But IMO Slive will allow expansion to happen, A&M will be an SEC member, and the only other question will be who else will be added as well...:twocents:
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It could possibly be 30-35 mil per team.
 
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If we have to add FSU for 2012 or 2013 to our already brutal schedule, I will go ahead and assume it won't be "our year".
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TrueOrange said:
Was saying they'd be more likely to even take Texas tech before they'd take Kansas....to stress how low KU's chances of being invited there pretty much are
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Yea who knows at this point, but the college football landscape, and maybe basketball, have changed forever.
 
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read on an a&m board that they have something called the "century tree".

someone said that since they have joined the sec, they will have to guard the tree when they play alabama
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
It could possibly be 30-35 mil per team.
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not that much....(tv money and bowl wise, i think the league splits up about, what, currently around 16-18 mill per team....the big 10 is like at 22 mil to 24 maybe, thanks to their network's revenue), but yeah, it could end up quite a bit more money per team in the end
 
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99gator said:
read on an a&m board that they have something called the "century tree".

someone said that since they have joined the sec, they will have to guard the tree when they play alabama
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