🏈 At the risk of sounding like a complete moron......

[Southern Bama]

If Texas A&M comes into the SEC.....How will it work with 13 teams ( east and west ), if another team doesnt enter ?

 

[jdpas29]

kentucky and vandy only count for 1/2 of a team. so instead of playing a whole game against either, there will be the vandertucky game where you play each team for a half and everyone's happy. aTm can joint right in without adding another team! problem solved

 

[JoshB]

Regardless of what Mike Slive is sayin right now, bet on a 14th team coming in... Virginia Tech (or whoever it is) in the East, Texas A&M in the West.

 

[Crimson14Tide]

If Texas A&M comes into the SEC.....How will it work with 13 teams ( east and west ), if another team doesnt enter ?

Regardless of what anyone else might tell you....it won't.

 

[bamascw]

You can bet the farm that Slive has plenty of things cooking behind the curtain. I bet we have a 15th and 16th team lined up just in case.

 

[LBS]

If the start-n-stop nature of the TAMU saga has taught us anything its that moving conferences is both complicated and public. We know more about Big12 Regents' meeting schedules and Baylor's financial concerns than we wanted to, and we still don't have the end in sight. In a honestly, I don't believe for an instant that Slive has deal, much less Deals in Principle, up his sleeve ready to play.


No doubt, we want to be even (12/14/16, whatever) but who 14 will be is only conjecture. I've read Virginia Tech, but I've also read that such a move would become a discussion within the Virginia State House. Also, we could see some schedule concerns being aired regarding Bama and VT meeting in the SEC/ACC kick-off classic in two years. (Although, if someone believes that "effects" follow a "cause", the rumors that Pitt is headed to the ACC does bolster a thought that they are replacing some team that is leaving.) Seemingly the hottest topic in West Virginia is chance that the Mountaineers might go to the SEC. Coming up on an elections year, if that was done, every politician north of the county clerk would be taking credit.


Expansion is not something that will sneak up on anyone who is paying attention.