The SEC isn't going to <a href='http://www.centralohio.com/ohiostate/stories/20030708/football/611709.html' target='_blank'>expand</a>

Athletic directors across the conference said there are no current discussions about SEC expansion.

"I don't see anybody out there that the SEC feels would bring to the table enough TV sets to warrant the split of the revenue," Broyles said. "... It would have to have a big TV set base and fan base to warrant the additional split of the money."

At last month's SEC spring meetings, it was projected that number would jump to $101.9 million this year. The addition of another school would cost member schools millions of dollars. Last year, the league's member schools shared $95.7 million from football and basketball revenues.

"There are really only a couple of reasons to expand," Turner said. "One is for money. The other is for philosophical institutional reasons and/or power. ... You've got to get through the first one before you can get to the second one, and I just don't currently see that as a possibility down the road."



Right now the BCS conferences that ECU fits and are lobbying to get into, the ACC and the SEC, are locked at 12, and the ACC released a similar article several months back saying anything higher then 12 teams severely cuts into their profit.