(02-03-2022 06:15 AM)XLance Wrote: (01-28-2022 02:10 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (01-28-2022 01:49 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: So do you see room for a non-football Vanderbilt & Duke in the SEC Mega Conference?
Are they in addition to 24 football schools, or would they have 22 for football?
If you had to pick teams who would go in for all sports but football it would be Vanderbilt and Duke. While neither lack for money, both severely lack for football will and leadership. Wake Forest may be tiny, but they have the will to win and good leadership. It's plausible lil ole Wake could grow a respectable t-shirt following in the Piedmont Triad ... there's really no other sports game in town. Also Wake has the money to aggressively expand its enrollment should it choose to.
All that you have written is true....somewhat.
Wake Forest has been around since 1834, why would they aggressively expand enrollment now just to join a football conference?
Also Wake has been in Winston-Salem for almost 70 years......more t-shirt fans?
It does not sound that there is any room in the SEC mega-conference for any school that can't pack in a large crowd for football. I guess the smaller stadium schools in the SEC should be looking over their shoulders, too?
Wherever you would draw the line, most smaller stadiums in the SEC are just bigger than the ones in the ACC. Wake brings up the rear with the smallest stadium in the entire P5.
100+
Texas A&M, Kyle Field = 102,733
Tennessee, Neyland Stadium = 102,455
LSU, Tiger Stadium = 102,321
Alabama, Bryant-Denny Stadium = 100,077
90+
Georgia, Sanford Stadium = 92,746
80+
Florida, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium = 88,548
Auburn, Jordan-Hare Stadium = 87,451
Clemson, Memorial Stadium = 81,500
70+
Florida State, Doak-Campbell Stadium = 79,560
South Carolina, Williams-Brice Stadium = 77,559
Arkansas, Razorback Stadium = 76,000
60+
Pitt, Heinz Field = 68,400
Virginia Tech, Lane Stadium = 65,632
Miami, Hard Rock Stadium = 64,767
Ole Miss, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium = 64,038
Missouri, Memorial Stadium = 61,620
Virginia, Scott Stadium = 61,500
Mississippi State, Davis Wade Stadium = 61,337
Kentucky, Kroger Field = 61,000; Louisville, Cardinal Stadium = 61,000
50+
NC State, Carter-Finley Stadium = 58,000
Georgia Tech, Bobby Dodd Stadium = 55,000
North Carolina, Kenan Stadium = 50,500
40+
Syracuse, Carrier Dome = 49,057
Boston College, Alumni Stadium = 44,500
Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt Stadium = 40,550
Duke, Wallace Wade Stadium = 40,004
30+
Wake Forest, Truist Field = 31,500