Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Both schools are locked into their ACC contract until 2037, is the Big 10 going to wait 15 years for those schools to leave the conference and join theirs?
A conference can invite any school it wants to invite, but like everything both sides have to be WILLING and ABLE to make the move. Saying the Big 10 could invite UV, UNC, Clemson and ND is one thing, but are those schools WILLING and ABLE to make the move is something totally different.
Both ISU and KU would be willing and able to move if the Big 12 folds up without OU and UT, it will be every schools for themselves.
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Yet, ironically, the two biggest cry babies leaving WILL stabilize the conference.
I agree. NIL has essentially rendered the NCAA obsolete when it comes to football....hell they don't even run the championship now. Imagine you are an AD at Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida....and see that affiliation with the NCAA and it's rules no longer have to apply....why wouldn't you, at minimum, reach out to the most attractive 24 schools nationwide and say "hey, we can make all the football money...all of it...and essentially act as a semi-pro developmental league for the NFL."
Football only, 24 teams, 2 divisions, 11 games against your division + one from other division, top 2 in each division make a playoff.
Florida, Miami, Florida State, Clemson, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi St, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Auburn, Texas A&M, LSU, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, USC, Oregon
Which of those schools is a firm no if the rest are leaning yes? They already dominate football recruiting....12 games every week with only those schools involved (5 at noon, 5 at 3:30, two games in primetime); what would a TV contract like that look like? What would the playoff contract look like? Those 24 teams would own a day of the week for the entire fall.
Those AD's have no obligation to worry about the program survival at Vanderbilt, or Georgia Tech, or Utah, or Iowa State. All the tradition and rivalry and geographic considerations in the world can't match up with the mountain of money those 24 schools would be dividing up. Even Notre Dame, presented with that scenario, would have to either jump in or schedule what's left of the big 10/big 12.
Really hope this doesn't happen, but consolidation has been the way of the business world for quite some time...
Even if it will stabilize the conference, it will stabilize it as a G5 conference, meaning we will lose tremendous amounts of money and recruits, and therefore probably lose our coaching staff and any facility upgrades.
Why not convince SEC to just merge with the big 12. 24 teams and we can do 3 pods and say our champ is the national champ.
Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:
1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
And, Missouri is just as locked in to the SEC contractually. If the Big Ten wishes to expand, KU and ISU are about the only options. Would everybody try to go to 16 teams just because the SEC is doing it though? Difficult to know.
With B10 money ISU could start baseball up if needed in a year. Again, it’s like 90% football, 5% academic profile, 4% men’s BB and 1% everything else.
Kicking Vandy out would be very SEC. They don’t like those nerds.
I understand. But in this day and age do contracts mean anything anymore? Especially in college football? So they have to cough up some cash to break away from the league. So what. I was responding to the **** measuring contest thrown down by the SEC and how the Big Ten would react. Well, those two are the biggest ****'* left. ISU and KU don't measure up.
I don’t think the SEC can just kick out schools.
Oh yeah, if true.........this was written and agreed upon well in advance and in anticipation of the NIL ruling.