Come On SEC

[GLDunlap]

Those who are against expansion are just afraid of the consequences, no different when Arkansas and South Carolina were added. They haven't been powerhouses over the years, howeer, they have recently gotten a lot better. Competition does that. It also makes for a stronger conference and a tougher Conference Champion to beat for the NC. An A&M addition would be a good thing for the SEC, and eventually (aside from the money) for them. Who else to add? I'd like to see OK but I don't think they will go. I would be fine with Missouri, Virginia, VT, West Virginia, or FSU. I don't think we should add Clemson though. As it is in the SEC, if you can get through the season with only two SEC losses, you've done quite a bit because the conference is so tough. That's also what makes the SEC so exciting, you never know where those upsets are going to come from. In the SEC, you need to bring your A game every week or you're going to get run over.

Afraid of the consequences? This is college football not the NFL. What alot of people around the country don't understand is that SEC football is great because of the tradition that the teams have developed over the last century of playing each other. The SEC is tough enough we don't need A&M, Missouri or anyone else for that matter to make us better. The current SEC teams are the ones that made this conference what it is and adding more teams does nothing but dilute the "brand". It's nothing but greed and like someone else has mentioned it will eventually destroy college football as we know it. All you have to do is look at the ESPN "SEC TV package". Every school is swimming with cash now but all except a couple of stadiums are now only 3/4's full each Saturday. Will the SEC be better in the long run because they have the extra cash now? NO!!

 

[rockytop9808]

Afraid of the consequences? This is college football not the NFL. What alot of people around the country don't understand is that SEC football is great because of the tradition that the teams have developed over the last century of playing each other. The SEC is tough enough we don't need A&M, Missouri or anyone else for that matter to make us better. The current SEC teams are the ones that made this conference what it is and adding more teams does nothing but dilute the "brand". It's nothing but greed and like someone else has mentioned it will eventually destroy college football as we know it. All you have to do is look at the ESPN "SEC TV package". Every school is swimming with cash now but all except a couple of stadiums are now only 3/4's full each Saturday. Will the SEC be better in the long run because they have the extra cash now? NO!!

I bet people were saying the pretty close to the same thing back in the early 1990s.

 

[GLDunlap]

I bet people were saying the pretty close to the same thing back in the early 1990s.

No not really the SEC was only 10 teams and it made sense to expand to 12 teams and split into 2 divisions. That expansion wasn't based on dollar signs unlike this one.