(04-06-2018 07:03 AM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(04-05-2018 03:58 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(04-04-2018 10:34 AM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  The only rumors I've heard about Oklahoma are that OU and OSU have to come together, and I don't think the SEC wants (or needs) both. Personally, I'd like West Virginia or Virginia Tech, and Duke or North Carolina. I'd even be willing to take both Duke and North Carolina if they have to come together.

Florida State joining would be awesome, but Florida would be totally against that so it isn't going to happen.

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this almost 150-page thread, but I really like the idea of 16 teams with 4 team divisions. I envision the divisions something like this:

West: TAMU, (insert one Big 12 team or Nebraska here), Arky, LSU
Central: Bama, Ole Miss, MS State, Auburn
North: Mizzou, TN, UK, Vandy
East: Florida, Georgia, USC, (insert one of VT, WVU, NC, Duke, Florida State, whatever)

These would obviously change based on which teams move into the conference, but I see the scheduling like this:

Play each team from your division each season (3 games), 1 permanent rival from another division to preserve rivalries, and then 2 games from the divisions that don't include your rival and 1 game from the division that does include your rival each season. That's 10 conference games, and I realize that's high. So it could be adjusted to a 9 game schedule where instead of the 2 and 1 games in other divisions each team could play 4 games against other division teams on a rotating schedule, with the caveat that each team plays every team in the conference at least once every 4 years. I believe that is doable.

FYI (#2)
The probability that Duke and or North Carolina would ever want to join the SEC is pretty close to zero.

Actually, the complete opposite.

Quote:Cunningham had no shortage of input. A steady stream of emails from alumni, fans and boosters began on Nov. 20.

The notes came from everywhere: from people who graduated from UNC in the 1960s, and those who graduated in the past few years. Former athletes wrote in. There were Rams Club members. And emails from fans who had no tie to the school other than their allegiance.

One came from an Army major who wrote of how he’d followed UNC athletics throughout deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. He expressed concern about a conference move and wrote, “I will always love Carolina, but my fervor towards our athletic programs would die a rapid death should we choose to enter the BIG TEN.”

The emails – many coming after UNC fans on the message boards at InsideCarolina.com organized a push to fill Cunningham’s inbox – shared roughly the same sentiment: Lead the Tar Heels out of the crumbling ACC, to a better place. The overwhelming majority of fans preferred moving to the SEC. Among the more than 150 pages of emails that Cunningham received in the 10 days after Maryland’s announcement, only one email favored joining the Big Ten.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/frankthetan...mails/amp/

Delusional message board posters.
Bubba Cunningham was a rookie AD and had no authority to influence a move(still doesn't).
If that information had been written about John Montgomery with e-mails coming from an inner circle group in the Rams Club (known as the Big Hitters), it might have some credence, but otherwise is just a bunch of