looks like texas a&m finally gets their sec invite
http://tamu.scout.com/2/1103665.html
looks like texas a&m finally gets their sec invite
http://tamu.scout.com/2/1103665.html
Texas A&M? Really?
Theis really THAT hellbent on a 16 team conference?
What are your thoughts mors on WVU being one of the teams sources say Mike Slive is being given authority to negotiate with?
And things could get interesting if the Big Ten ever seriously considered Missouri. We could have a fight between the Big Ten and SEC for Missouri if they both seriously want/wanted them.
Missouri is an interesting school. They are wanted less for their athletic prowess and more for their proximity smack dab between the St Louis and Kansas City markets. That is what the SEC is looking at, just like they wanted the South Texas market.Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Big advantage for Missou over WV in this one. Of course they could go crazy and try for the 16 team conference that they probably think the PAC 12 is going for.
I would be very surprised if the SEC came knocking on WVU's door, but it does kinda make sense. While we lack the academic qualities and prime recruiting grounds, we certainly don't lack the enthusiasm from the fans, the traveling capabilities of our fanbase, and the abilities to be great that the SEC would want. WVU also brings BIG TIME Basketball prowess to the table for the SEC, that's desperately trying to be relevant again when compared to the Big East and ACC.
Missouri definitely has the leg up on the prime tv/recruiting area, but they severely lack any other real shining aspects beyond that.
Truthfully, if they take Missouri, it's a definitely indication that they care more about the money they could possibly get and less about the athletic prowess of the team they are bringing in (which is already pretty obvious with them bringing in Texas A&M - who hasn't been relevant in 80 years or some shit).
Baylor knows they are FUCKED if A&M leaves and the dominoes fall again! Baylor is considering legal action over A&M's possible move to the SEC, which it's being reported that A&M has unanimously been accepted into the SEC as member #13.
Baylor knows they are FUCKED if A&M leaves and the dominoes fall again! Baylor is considering legal action over A&M's possible move to the SEC, which it's being reported that A&M has unanimously been accepted into the SEC as member #13.
Sounds like Baylor has withdrawn consideration for a lawsuit.
So people were complaining about the ability to have a spread no-huddle offense combined with a wishbone in custom playbooks. Funny enough, Arkansas State is at least considering that possibility this weekend against Memphis. Will be interesting to see... we definitely have the runningback personnel for it.
...and now maybe not.
the big twelve will evaporate soon enough
Sounds like Iowa State has joined the bitter table for two party.
I can't see why that region can't support their own conference. Why doesn't the Big 12 go hard at TCU if the Aggies leave? All of this moving around is driven by football money. Boise St should be considered as well. Adding teams like Houston or SMU are far less appealing imo.
Southern Miss will GLADLY move into the new Big 12 once A&M/OK/OK St./TX/TX Tech all leave.
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It's time to get rid of the numbers and just go Big South or something.
When you have a school like Texas A&M who is absolutely wanting to come join you ... it's hard to pass up. A&M gives them a lot of in-roads to Texas. Are they hell bent on 16? Maybe not. But they're hell bent on money. All of them are.The
The running theory is that TCU simply doesn't add anything beyond being a 10th team. No new markets, really no additional eyeballs to the TV, etc.
Agreed. Same for the Pac-12 and the Big Ten.
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Yeah, I forgot about Iowa State too. Baylor and Iowa State realize their free money parties for being in the Big 12 are coming to an end slowly but surely. Everyone wants Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. The MWC and Big East are going to be battling for Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri. Baylor and Iowa State?No one wants them. It'll be MWC or C-USA for them in the end most likely. And in the end, either way, they'll end up with nowhere near the kind of money they're getting just handed to them right now to get smacked around by the rest of the Big 12.
Big East would gladly take Kansas and K-State for basketball.The MWC and Big East are going to be battling for Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri. Baylor and Iowa State?
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Yeah, there's been no secret about that. I've heard that the Big East would try and go after Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri if the Big 12 collapses. It'd bring them up to 12 teams in football and 20 in basketball, which along with a bunch of a good basketball teams they have in the Big East already, adding Kansas, and good teams in K-State and Missouri, that'd be a hell of a conference in basketball.
Yeah, I just don't see the Big East being able to handle that many teams in basketball. It's incredibly unwieldy already (to the point that all the good teams just beat the hell out of each other), adding 3 more to the table just makes it that much worse. A 20 team conference is just ridiculous.
In the end, I foresee something happening that causes a loss of members for the Big East and thus the football side of things either dissolves or becomes a C-USA clone of so-so teams and terrible teams with the big players (WVU and Pittsburgh) moving onto greener pastures.
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