(10-18-2016 03:15 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(10-18-2016 11:24 AM)JRsec Wrote:  ****************************************************************

Well after yesterday's vote it's time to revisit this thread. The Big 12 has done what I said over 4 years ago they would do, not expand.

Now that they've publicly been forced to acknowledge this position there is no reason for the networks or any conference to deal with them on more than a school by school basis.

Therefore, the Big 10 and SEC and to lesser extents the ACC and PAC are now all officially in competition for the larger brands.

IMO opinion this now favors the SEC more than the Big 10. Why? ESPN wants those brands too, and we are the ESPN conference in closest proximity to them.

The SEC could move to 16 or 18 schools out of the Big 12.

Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa State would give us all of Texas and three new states with a combined population of 10 million plus, 3 AAU schools bringing the SEC to 8 total, and a Western Division essentially comprised of former SWC & Big 8 schools.

Or, we could play it very frugally and simply make our biggest play for OU & Kansas.

Or, ESPN could revisit a plan from 2010 and Virginia Tech and N.C. State could head our way so that Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas could join Notre Dame as the 18 members of the ACC.

Personally I think the SEC goes for OU & KU and Texas and friends are used as leverage for the PACN. We'll see.

Listened a little bit to Finebaum on Mike and Mike this morning.

He still thinks OU and OSU to the SEC is a probability. At least, that is what he implied.

I'm okay with that. That gives the SEC a double dip into Dallas every year. It puts A&M in the drivers seat in Texas, which satisfies the Aggie wing of the SEC family and the SEC still gets what it wants in Texas. Missouri moves West and Auburn and Alabama return to the East.

I've never had a problem with this. The only issue here for me is that we have had so many people out with this rumor for two years now that it almost takes on the feel of a false cover for something else. Usually the stories circulated early turn out to be false.

What it would be is the easiest way to end this impasse. Should the PAC open up to ESPN then Texas / T.C.U. / Texas Tech and KSU could head west. Then if the Big 10 takes Kansas you would only need ISU placed, or WVU placed to pull it off.