(05-02-2014 01:35 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(05-02-2014 12:53 PM)JRsec Wrote:  If the fish are really hitting Vandiver you don't stay and catch more than you can eat at the moment. You remember the spot and come back when the time is right. Besides, If the Big 10 and SEC move to 20 I look for the PAC to make a move as well. If they don't the Big 12 and PAC will be sitting out there when the Big 10 and SEC decide to move to 24 each.

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I agree JR, which is why I like stopping at 18 and pausing to see which way then wind is blowing. Not jut with the next expansion targets, but also with the fit of the new schools within the conference. In the two times the SEC has expanded, one school was a perfect fit while the other was borderline match.

I think it will take Mizzou about another 10 years before they are fully integrated in the SEC and I don't want the attention being paid towards proper assimilation to be diminished for the sake of expansion.

That's a good point, Vandiver. There are only three schools that I think would hit the ground running in the SEC with zero cultural or competitive issues. Below is my rough pecking order:

Texas A&M class (fit before they were a sparkle in their mother's eye): Florida State, Clemson, Oklahoma State

South Carolina class (cultural fit, but will need some on the field success to make them feel that they are home): Virginia Tech

Arkansas class (quasi-cultural fit, have other things going outside of football and go along to get along): Miami, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest

Missouri class (hard to get an initial pulse, but fans would be all-in after that first home football game and first home basketball games against Kentucky and Florida, all of which we know the SEC would ensure is a spectacle): North Carolina, North Carolina State, Oklahoma

Stranger Danger: Texas, Notre Dame

Would give one of their limbs: West Virginia, Baylor, TCU, Louisville, Texas Tech, USF, UCF, Cincinnati

Would give their firstborn: ECU