(11-27-2014 12:29 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 05:38 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 03:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-26-2014 12:06 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote:  No network will be powerful enough to force a Mizzou/ Arkansas move to the Big XII. If you are from Missouri you know how utterly ridiculous that notion is... Ninety percent sure the Razorback folks share the same sentiment. I think OU would be such a prize for the SEC, they might go ahead and invite OSU. They can still look east if we expand to 18 or 20.

Medic it's a long thread and I'm not sure which post you are referring to, but I can't conceive of a scenario in which Missouri would be asked to move. The SEC has a few traditions that go unspoken but are rock solid. One of them is that we have never asked a member of the conference to leave and promised all members that we never would. This issue arose way back in the 1960's when Georgia Tech and Tulane opted out to pursue independence. So, as far as all SEC administrations are concerned Mizzou, A&M, South Carolina, and Arkansas are as if they had always been SEC and always will be.

Part of me knows that a Carolina and Virginia school are best for the SEC, but that two more from the West would do so much to make A&M and Missouri and Arkansas for that matter feel even more at home. For that reason it would be fine with me if we expanded to 16 with Oklahoma and Kansas. And you are correct in that if the other two came available a move to 18 or 20 would be possible.

If the MASTER (ESPN) needs to move some parked inventory, they will. There IS a network powerful enough to have Arkansas and Missouri move into the Big 12, or other parked inventory move to a different conference (even an ACC team) if it served their long term interest.

Yeah, but Missouri and A&M are worth more to ESPN in the SEC than they were in the Big 12. Arkansas is worth more to ESPN in the SEC than in the Big 12. But the funny part XLance is that any Southern ACC school is worth more in the SEC and it's much easier to park 100% owned property than partially owned property. And there are a lot of disparate parked properties in the ACC. You see it's important to know what associations up your value and which ones diminish it.

I still refuse to believe any network has the power to make anyone move to another conference. They can come up with a ridiculous financial offer to entice a move, but these universities also wield enormous clout. If I am wrong on this, in the end, it makes CFB completely pathetic.