🏈 UPDATE: Texas Longhorns, Oklahoma Sooners unanimously accept invitation to SEC

[50+yeartidefan]

Big conspiracy theory. Coach Sark to Tehas was a move to help SEC get them to join our conference.

How would that have helped?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Two-division wise, moving Mizzou to the west, Bama and aubrun to the east and having TXOU in the west makes sense from geography, but if others are coming they can hold off. I like the scheduling ease of the four pods (play your three in-pods every year, everyone else every other year), but how that gets to a champion without an extra game gets dicey. All that assumes a nine game schedule.

 

[TerryP]

I was reading through this thread and it's not like I didn't remember saying this but good lord ... sorta hit that one on the head. This was in response to what Sankey said on day one.

He goes on the litany of things the NCAA has done wrong then when asked if they need to separate, he says no. I got the feeling I was listening to a guy trying to become the first commish of college football.

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I don't have time to verify that. It seems high, maybe includes existing coaches when Saban arrived in 2007. UT has had six. AU has had four. Uark has had four. MSU has had five. Ole Miss, four. LSU, two. A&M, three. UGA, two. UF, four. UK, three. UofSC, four. Vandy, four. Mizzou, four...

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[1CrimsonTider]

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Wow

 

[bamaledge]

The powers that be can't, seriously, be considering 20-24. Can they?

 

[BamaFan334]

F This. Blow the whole damn thing up already and create a farm league and let's just get back the guys that want to play college ball. Let all these money brokers go with the farm league.

 

[OldPlayer]

Everyone needs to think beyond football and basketball. These additional sports that don’t exist (much) in the SEC. Men’s soccer, men’s gymnastics, men’s wrestling, water polo, lacrosse. Weaving these sports into the SEC will be difficult.

 

[Krimson]

That's what i would love to see. Put the top 20 -24 teams in 1 super conference and conference champion is national champ. No longer have to hear the whining from the UCF's of the football world and no cupcake games. Only issue I see is what to do with the teams like Vanderbilt and Kentucky who can compete in other sports but aren't really a factor in football. Think you make the super conference football only and let the other sports maintain current alignment myself. Kind of like the arrangement Notre dame has now.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

F This. Blow the whole damn thing up already and create a farm league and let's just get back the guys that want to play college ball. Let all these money brokers go with the farm league.

Double F it...i agree with you...
Leave our damn college football alone....
I like the playoffs...idont mind expanded leagues....
But quit screwing the whole thing up...

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[ElephantStomp]

20-24?!? The SEC about to tell the NCAA Go F Yourself.

This is smart by the SEC, the best conference becoming even stronger. I’m a fan of the blue bloods being in the same conference. Although teams like Kentucky and Vandy are good in other sports football pays the bills, so any team that isn’t competitive I’d get rid of

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

PAC12, SEC, Big10, and ACC will expand to at lease 16 teams and those 64 will move outside the NCAA for football only. The rest regroup into leagues as best they can. The TV contracts for the lesser conferences along with the Bowl situation should really be a mess.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

As long as you add one to the West and the other to the East it really shouldn't be that big of deal and we get 9 conference games.

Don't think that will happen. I think they both go West and MIssouri moves to the West also. Then Bama and Auburn move to the East. That assumes they don't go to pods instead of divisions.

 

[Tidestalker]

Big conspiracy theory. Coach Sark to Tehas was a move to help SEC get them to join our conference.

My Texas peeps say that he was aware of the move throughout the hiring process...

My personal thought was that what made Texas so attractive was getting away from CNS both schedule and recruiting wise... Along with replacing someone who didn't do well, at a school with big booster $. But all speculation on my part.

 

[JoshB]

I told a friend after the Tejas/OU rumors started that I felt like the SEC was making its move on the NCAA and this felt bigger than just simple expansion. Things are gonna get mighty interesting.

 

[TerryP]

It was this simple to me since day one in regards to how this effects A&M.

 

[rammerjammer]

I told a friend after the Tejas/OU rumors started that I felt like the SEC was making its move on the NCAA and this felt bigger than just simple expansion. Things are gonna get mighty interesting.

If this happens, I feel that we are now paying players.......we should be given back the wins that we "forfeited" under Stallings and Saban. Cecil Hurt wrote about this a few weeks back. It will put us as number one on the all time wins list. We won the games on the field and it needs to show in the record books.

 

[BamaFan334]

I get A&M's unhappiness. They made a chess move in a checkers game to come to the SEC. They did it to get away from Texas and gain some recognition. Now Texas wants what A&M has and they are trying to copy the Aggies. It's just like someone copying your paper. You just don't get the warm and fuzzies from it. There is nothing wrong with their displeasure here. The SEC helped push their brand, now Texas wants to be reformed by the SEC as well. Called that a "poser" in the 90's.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

I have read that Texas and OU approached the Big 10 1st and were told they would accept Texas but not OU due to OU is not a AAU school. The SEC was next on the call list.