If the SEC expands to 16 teams

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VolFan4Life87

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Is UT going to lose the yearly UT vs bama rivalry? Can a team exclusively schedule a single team from the opposing side (east/west) ?
 
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There would be many ways to keep the game.
My suggestion: Four 4-team pods. Two pods per division. Rotate the pods every two years. One permanent opponent from another pod (Bama). One secondary opponent from another pod to play when the permanent opponent's pod rotates into your division. You play four teams every year (the other three teams in your pod and your permanent opponent). You play the secondary opponent four times every six years and everyone else twice each every six years.
 
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From what heard on 94.5 jox last week, it depends on the combination that makes up the 16. Alabama and auburn could be moved to the east. They talked about Virginia Tech do not remember the other included in that combo and trying to lure a OU and OSU combo.
 
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The better question would have been, "if the SEC expands to 16, who do they add?"

I say any two of these four: Oklahoma, West Virginia, North Carolina, or Virginia Tech.
 
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Vol8188 said:
The better question would have been, "if the SEC expands to 16, who do they add?"

I say any two of these four: Oklahoma, West Virginia, North Carolina, or Virginia Tech.
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I know it's important "who we add" but if we lose the yearly bama game I'm going to be pissed. Don't see how who we add is more important than that rivalry
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
I know it's important "who we add" but if we lose the yearly bama game I'm going to be pissed. Don't see how who we add is more important than that rivalry
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If we had a 9 game conference schedule we could have 1 permanent rival and 1 rotating. I think that's a big possibility. Although the coaches wouldn't be happy about only having 3 non-SEC games.
 
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Vol8188 said:
If we had a 9 game conference schedule we could have 1 permanent rival and 1 rotating. I think that's a big possibility. Although the coaches wouldn't be happy about only having 3 non-SEC games.
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True, unless the teams added are on par with vandy/ky etc
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
True, unless the teams added are on par with vandy/ky etc
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Why would you expand to water down your product? I don't think the SEC will expand unless it's going to benefit their tv deal, so it will have to be two teams worth adding.

Like Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, or West Virginia.
 
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Vol8188 said:
The better question would have been, "if the SEC expands to 16, who do they add?"

I say any two of these four: Oklahoma, West Virginia, North Carolina, or Virginia Tech.
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OU doesn't want jack to do with us unless they're forced into it by circumstances beyond their control


and if the conference didn't want anything to do with WVU earlier, why would they now?
 
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Vol8188 said:
Why would you expand to water down your product? I don't think the SEC will expand unless it's going to benefit their tv deal, so it will have to be two teams worth adding.

Like Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, or West Virginia.
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You have to take your football glasses off though. As much as Kentucky blows why do you think we keep them around? Basketball
 
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Vol8188 said:
Why would you expand to water down your product? I don't think the SEC will expand unless it's going to benefit their tv deal, so it will have to be two teams worth adding.

Like Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, or West Virginia.
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WVU really doesn't though (yes I know the fans protest that, but the numbers don't as heavily suggest that they "own" the Maryland, and Pennsylvania areas alongside their state...plus academically, they make UK look like UGA)

...they don't really benefit in the TV market argument



And OU is tied at the hip with Ok State (by choice) and really doesn't care to go anywhere without them...(that and again they look down at this conference...plus they've spent the last 3 years trying to get into playing in the Los Angeles market)
 
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good in basketball, have decent football programs (like vandy and UK), and AAU membership:
Duke
UNC
UVA

both A&M and Mizzou are AAU members. west virginia is not. and neither are any of the other universities being mentioned on this thread, but GA Tech is...

Association of American Universities
 
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dcgators said:
good in basketball, have decent football programs (like vandy and UK), and AAU membership:
Duke
UNC
UVA

both A&M and Mizzou are AAU members. west virginia is not. and neither are any of the other universities being mentioned on this thread, but GA Tech is...

Association of American Universities
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I'm not sure though that GTech wants to have much to do with us unless their world absolutely falls out from under them
 
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i agree that GA Tech may not want in either. just stating that they would be the only other candidate with a decent football and good basketball programs that happens to be an AAU member.

the SEC loves to say in its TV ads that we have excellent academics to go along with our talent on the field of play...
 
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Any expansion would be driven by football, not basketball. I understand basketball fans wanting to add some better teams, but football is the revenue sport for the SEC. We are first and foremost a football conference.

Any expansion would have to take us into new markets. Slive has said he and the SEC ADs are happy at 14. Translation, unless it makes us more money, we won't be adding more schools. Personally, I would think OU and OSU would be good competitive adds, but I don't think they add much more market than we are already getting from TAMU and Mizzou. Plus I think they're too scared to play an SEC schedule. My personal guess is we won't expand if we don't have to.
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
Is UT going to lose the yearly UT vs bama rivalry? Can a team exclusively schedule a single team from the opposing side (east/west) ?
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Of course they can. If they expanded to 16 teams as has been posted before they could split into four sub divisions (I'd suggest n,s,e,w). That would be three games for each team in their own subdivision plus one from each of the other subdivisions. That's six games leaving four floating games to fill with non-conference games. Then a semi-conference championship game followed by a conference championship game to make 12 games followed by whatever bowl the conference champion would participate in.
 
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