🏈 FSU president: Have had no talks about joining SEC

[Joe]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)—Florida State University President Eric Barron said Saturday that he doesn’t know how to make it any clearer: There have been no— as in zero—conversations between university officials with anyone about joining the Southeastern Conference.
Barron, attending a Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce meeting in Destin, re-emphasized that there have been no discussions about moving to the SEC, or any other league for that matter.
“From coach to (athletic director) to president and the board chair (trustees), there has been no discussion,” Barron told The Associated Press in phone interview from Destin. “I feel quite certain if any of those individuals had any discussions, including me, we would have shared it with each other.”

Barron, however, sounded more amused than irritated by all the reports.
“There’s certainly a lot of scurrying about for sure,” he said.
Barron and the university’s board of trustees would be responsible for any decision to change conferences.
Football coach Jimbo Fisher said the only information he’s heard about schools possibly leaving their existing conferences for the Southeastern Conference is from reporters."- From Rivals

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[Joe]

I believe if Texas A&M is allowed in then there is a good chance that FSU may soon follow. I think Florida may protest a bit.

 

[Southern Bama]

How easy would it have been for the president or Fisher to say " We are not going to the SEC " ?? But they never said that.

 

[LBS]

"Florida State University President Eric Barron said Saturday that he doesn’t know how to make it any clearer: There have been no— as in zero—conversations between university officials with anyone about joining the Southeastern Conference."
I wonder, for initial conversations that establish interest, who would be doing the talking? I can't imagine a College President cold-calling Mr. Slive out of the blue, much like Coach Saban finally meeting with Mal Moore was not the first that he had heard of a Bama job offer.

"How easy would it have been for the president or Fisher to say " We are not going to the SEC " ?? But they never said that." "A'ight. I guess I'm just gonna have to say it. I am not going to be the coach at Alabama." - Nick Saban The Denial, how has that approach proved anything in the past?