Texas A&M coming to the SEC????

#401
#401
Apparently TX gov Rick Perry just said that 'conversations were being had' btw A&M and SEC. Perry was a former yell leader, and he appoints every regent to tu and A&M. This is looking more real every day
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#402
#402
This is from Cecil Hurt:

Attention Conspiracy Theorists: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to be in Birmingham -- where the SEC Office is located -- on Friday.
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Take it however you like.
 
#404
#404
This will be the last year of the big 12...A&M, OU, OSU, Mizzou will be in the SEC next year..im thinking bama,AU,State, Ole miss get shifted into the SEC East
 
#408
#408
And a simple solution to the 3rd Saturday in October problem:

aTm plus another current BigXII team to the West, Vandy to the West, Bama and Auburn to the East.

Vandy's locked rival is Ole Miss anyway, and no one in the east would really miss them outside of us.

Make a 9 conference game schedule with either one locked opponent or just a rotating set of three from the other league.

It would look like this:

West:

LSU
Oklahoma
aTm
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Miss St
Vanderbilt

East:

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
 
#409
#409
GoBigOrangeVols said:
And a simple solution to the 3rd Saturday in October problem:

aTm plus another current BigXII team to the West, Vandy to the West, Bama and Auburn to the East.

Vandy's locked rival is Ole Miss anyway, and no one in the east would really miss them outside of us.

Make a 9 conference game schedule with either one locked opponent or just a rotating set of three from the other league.

It would look like this:

West:

LSU
Oklahoma
aTm
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Miss St
Vanderbilt

East:

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
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I like it except Bama, LSU instead of Bama.
 
#410
#410
If the SEC adds 4 more teams we need to have 4 divisions, without a doubt. If only two teams, then 2 divisions might still suffice.

I think something like this would work best:

4 Divisions
1. Tennessee, Vandy, Kentucky, NC*
2. Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St.
3. Arkansas, LSU, Oklahoma*, aTm*
4. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Clemson*

I'm just plugging some teams in the new team spots, which is not represetative of my opinion of who we should or will add.

Now, for the SEC schedule:

3 intra-division games.
4 cross-division games.
1 permanent rival (which rotates between another team for years playing the cross-division the permanent rival is in).

So, let's say Tennessee's schedule one year would be this:

1. OOC
2. OOC
3. Florida (Cross-division)
4. Georgia (Cross-division)
5. Bama (permanent rival)
6. South Carolina (Cross-division)
7. North Carolina (intra-division)
8. Vandy (intra-division)
9. Kentucky (intra-division)
10. Clemson (cross-division)
11. OOC
12. OOC

The results of the two cross-divisions playing one another will then decide the representative in the SEC championship game.

One year divisions 1&2 play eachother and 3&4. The next year 1&3 will play and constitute a representative division while 2&4 does the same. Then the next year 1&4 and 2&3. This rotates each year.

In a year when a team plays the cross-division of their permanent rival, they will rotate with a second "permanent" rival. Thus, when Tennessee is playing Bama's division, Florida is our rotational permanent rival.

Thus in the SEC Championship game the reps from each Representative Division (which is comprised of the intra- and cross-divisions) will play, giving the SEC 4 manageable divisions with manageable schedules and not putting SEC teams at a disadvantage by having to play a two-game championship series.

Just some thoughts of mine. Thoughts and critiques?
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#411
#411
GoBigOrangeVols said:
And a simple solution to the 3rd Saturday in October problem:

aTm plus another current BigXII team to the West, Vandy to the West, Bama and Auburn to the East.

Vandy's locked rival is Ole Miss anyway, and no one in the east would really miss them outside of us.

Make a 9 conference game schedule with either one locked opponent or just a rotating set of three from the other league.
It would look like this:

West:

LSU
Oklahoma
aTm
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Miss St
Vanderbilt

East:

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
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There's alot of talk that OU might not go anywhere without somehow trying to bring ok St

If the sec does expand to 14 though, the A&M/mizzou or A&M/OU would have to be the two best combinations (I'd be shocked to see the conference jump to 16 without somehow being provoked first)


As far as division realignment, expect to see auburn to be moved east or some odd combination of 1 west, 2 to the east



I would be curious though as to just how exactly conference play would change, especially regarding the number of games
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#412
#412
JoeKyleVol said:
If the SEC adds 4 more teams we need to have 4 divisions, without a doubt. If only two teams, then 2 divisions might still suffice.

I think something like this would work best:

4 Divisions
1. Tennessee, Vandy, Kentucky, NC*
2. Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St.
3. Arkansas, LSU, Oklahoma*, aTm*
4. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Clemson*

I'm just plugging some teams in the new team spots, which is not represetative of my opinion of who we should or will add.

Now, for the SEC schedule:

3 intra-division games.
4 cross-division games.
1 permanent rival (which rotates between another team for years playing the cross-division the permanent rival is in).

So, let's say Tennessee's schedule one year would be this:

1. OOC
2. OOC
3. Florida (Cross-division)
4. Georgia (Cross-division)
5. Bama (permanent rival)
6. South Carolina (Cross-division)
7. North Carolina (intra-division)
8. Vandy (intra-division)
9. Kentucky (intra-division)
10. Clemson (cross-division)
11. OOC
12. OOC

The results of the two cross-divisions playing one another will then decide the representative in the SEC championship game.

One year divisions 1&2 play eachother and
3&4. The next year 1&3 will play and constitute a representative division while 2&4 does the same. Then the next year 1&4 and 2&3. This rotates each year.

In a year when a team plays the cross-division of their permanent rival, they will
rotate with a second "permanent" rival. Thus, when Tennessee is playing Bama's division, Florida is our rotational permanent rival.

Thus in the SEC Championship game the reps from each Representative Division (which is comprised of the intra- and cross-divisions) will play, giving the SEC 4 manageable divisions with manageable schedules and not putting SEC teams at a disadvantage by having to play a two-game championship series.

Just some thoughts of mine. Thoughts and critiques?
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More than anything Im impressed you did all that on a mobile phone

That aside, NC wouldn't leave the ACC, period. They care most about their ties with duke & NC St in that little area of the state they have (and, according to some, also have quite a bit of contempt towards the conference)

I don't see Clemson coming back on their own, especially considering they left of their own accord (just like ga tech, except tech did so much more angrily)

In fact the ACC teams are all pretty solid about that conference's current state, more than enough for them not to budge without some other provocation.

If they were to choose, though, to expand, it's hard to see them just grab 4 more teams (12 to 16 is a HUGE jump) on their own; and even if they were to do so - since conference expansion is all about grabbing larger audiences and more $$$$ - it'd be more likely for like at least 3 of those teams to be from the west to reach out to try to gain hold of the larger markets they don't already have some foot in (a KC and STL w a mizzou, maybe an okc w/ OU?)


Expect the expansion though to be just 2 teams though.....and for this all to be money driven more than anything else (....some people view it as pride driven.....)
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#413
#413
Now, doesn't Texas legislature require that the 4 Texas schools have to play each other in football every year? (or is it 5 and including Baylor?)
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#414
#414
I honestly hate hearing about A&M wanting to come to the SEC... They arent in the South East at all.. Mid west... Makes no sense at all.. They're in BCS conference. Do they honestly think it will help them at all to come to the SEC? Woopie, Texas has its own network... A&M has money.. Buy their own damn network... So stupid and i stress the word stupid, for A&M to come to the SEC. Win some games and a Nat title in your own conference and stop crying..
 
#419
#419
Hahahahaha, no need to. Let the tv do what it's supposed to do at your house.
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#420
#420
The most shocking thing about this is that the Governor of Texas is a cheerleader. How the f did that happen?
 
#424
#424
I'm ok with the Aggies coming east. I'm more ok with them giving the big middle finger to TU.
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#425
#425
TrueOrange said:
Now, doesn't Texas legislature require that the 4 Texas schools have to play each other in football every year? (or is it 5 and including Baylor?)
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Five with Baylor? There are only four Texas programs in the BXII.

Eberry said:
I honestly hate hearing about A&M wanting to come to the SEC... They arent in the South East at all.. Mid west... Makes no sense at all.. They're in BCS conference. Do they honestly think it will help them at all to come to the SEC? Woopie, Texas has its own network... A&M has money.. Buy their own damn network... So stupid and i stress the word stupid, for A&M to come to the SEC. Win some games and a Nat title in your own conference and stop crying..
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So? Cincy and Louisville are in the Big East, and TCU will be next year. SDSU is in the MWC. The ACC has expanded like 1,000 miles tip to tail in the last decade, and the Pac-12 now has a team about 1,000 miles from the Pacific ocean. Louisiana Tech is in the WAC for f's sake.

It's been pretty apparent for years and years now that geography has little to do with conference alignment.

TAMU being proximal to Houston, and the fact that it's a significantly shorter drive from there to BR than it is from Gainesville to Nashville, or Fayetteville to Auburn, for instance, I think TAMU makes sense enough.

All that said, I don't see where else the expansion stuff for the SEC comes in. Not a chance in hell Oklahoma will go in, which rules out Oklahoma State as well. Texas will go independent.
 
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