(03-24-2016 03:53 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-24-2016 12:08 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  If Oklahoma and Florida State are on the table at the same time then I'm still betting we'll have to take Oklahoma State.

At that point, we might as well take West Virginia to get a slice of the Mid-Atlantic. The ACC can survive. The Big 12's days would be numbered and how exactly it disintegrates, I'm not sure.

- Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Arkansas, LSU

- Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

- Florida, Florida State, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia

Maybe then the B1G takes Kansas and UConn

That's a fairly nice set up isn't it?

I know it is old and the metrics have shifted, but I just reviewed MrSECs "Expounding on Expansion" and it kind of validated for me that WVU doesn't bring enough to the table for the SEC.

His metrics also did not consider the North Carolina Schools, so in a new round of expansion, they might not be as helpful, but he found that OK and Virginia were the top remaining non-Texas/ND options for the SEC.

Florida State came right next, followed by Maryland (to Big 10 since the report) and Virginia Tech.

At this point I don't know how either the Big 10 or the SEC views UNC/Duke/NC State, especially with UNCs academic issues recently.

If both Big 10 and SEC went to 18, I could easily see:

SEC: Oklahoma, FSU, one of Virginia/VTech and one of UNC/Duke
Big 10: Kansas, one of Virginia/VTech, one of UNC/Duke, + 1?

My guess would be that Duke would want to go with Virginia, which might mean that SEC goes VTech/UNC, but I don't know.

The +1 for Big 10 is very limited. I know it doesn't have to be AAU, but that might be where they start: Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Pitt. In this case I'd go with GT.

On the other hand, some "out there" picks: Toronto, NYU, Buffalo, Tulane, Rice from the non-P5 set, and something like Vandy/Mizzou from the P5 could be dark horses (not realistic I know!)

That would leave ACC with 8 schools (gone are FSU, VTech, Virginia, UNC, Duke, and GT) and the remainder could then combine with Big 12 for a third 16 team conference (8 leftovers in Big 12), or take a leftover group + UConn/Cincy, etc if Texas and friends leave for the PAC 16.