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

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Just heard the news here in Las Vegas on ESPN 1100. Supposedly a done deal with an official announcement in a couple of weeks. FSU is rumored to be next on the SEC's list.
 
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molsen81 said:
Just heard the news here in Las Vegas on ESPN 1100. Supposedly a done deal with an official announcement in a couple of weeks. FSU is rumored to be next on the SEC's list.
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I think I read somewhere that FSU will accept if invited. I would think SEC was just waiting on ATM and FSU will say yes. But this opens up several other possibilities. I was joking about MU earlier, but they could still be in the mix since all hell is about to break loose with the ATM announcement.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
I think I read somewhere that FSU will accept if invited. I would think SEC was just waiting on ATM and FSU will say yes. But this opens up several other possibilities. I was joking about MU earlier, but they could still be in the mix since all hell is about to break loose with the ATM announcement.
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I read as well that FSU would accept an invite to the SEC. The main thing standing in their way is UF but I don't think they'd be enough to keep FSU out of the conference if the SEC really wants them.
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gordonr24 said:
I read as well that FSU would accept an invite to the SEC. The main thing standing in their way is UF but I don't think they'd be enough to keep FSU out of the conference if the SEC really wants them.
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Whats the problem between UF and FSU anyway? It isnt like they don't play each other every year anyway, and recruiting isn't affected much it seems.
 
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I'm a little sad for the Big 12 since I see a lot of those teams on the West Coast, but I'm not sure there was anything Commissioner Beebe could do.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
Whats the problem between UF and FSU anyway? It isnt like they don't play each other every year anyway, and recruiting isn't affected much it seems.
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I believe it's because UF likes being the only school in Florida that is part of the SEC. If FSU joins, they'll lose that advantage. But they're already falling behind FSU now anyway. FSU is becoming a national force.
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gordonr24 said:
I believe it's because UF likes being the only school in Florida that is part of the SEC. If FSU joins, they'll lose that advantage. But they're already falling behind FSU now anyway. FSU is becoming a national force.
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I don't know that I'd go that far yet.
 
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by Tarp at 8/11 5:47 PM

I just got off the phone with someone on campus who I had been trying to talk to over the last few days because he's very well connected. Unlike a lot of things we had heard over the past few days which might have contradicted something else we heard or came from outside the university itself, his stuff comes from the highest levels and it's like God handing Moses the Ten Commandments.

A&M's going to the SEC.

This is what was said:

When the LHN was announced last fall, A&M officials took a long hard look at the economics of the deal and decided that they couldn't compete with Texas unless they did something different. They have been in discussions with SEC officials since that time. The person he talked to said that all future alignment discussions would be based on economics and that A&M was ahead of the curve in this regard.

On August 22, the A&M BOR will make it official. It doesn't matter what the NCAA decided today regarding the LHN or if the Big 12 has any further meetings or whatever penalties are assessed by the Big 12 for A&M leaving the conference.

There's nothing that can be done at this point to stop this. The BOR has determined that A&M's future lies in the SEC and away from Texas and will ratify this officially.

He was told that although Rick Perry will be in Birmingham and South Carolina this weekend, he has nothing to do with it. He was also told that he didn't have anything to do with the events of last summer. The timing of Perry's trip to the south has to do with his announcement that he is running for president which will be made Saturday on the same day that the Iowa straw polls are being done.

I apologize for not having much prior to this but this is the conversation that I waiting to have because there has been no better source on A&M over the years and because this comes directly from the highest levels. Prior to that, I wanted to be cautious but there's no need to be cautious at this point.

It's over."
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From another board
 
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I read somewhere that if A&M and the SEC could get another team to come with them that they would be put in the West and bammer and the barn would be moved to the east. So we would still get to play bammer every year.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
Whats the problem between UF and FSU anyway? It isnt like they don't play each other every year anyway, and recruiting isn't affected much it seems.
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it's one thing to play each other in a game that's just a rivalry; it's a completely different thing to have it also be yearly for conference standing implications

they don't want to have to play FSU and ALSO have it hold an SEC championship spot on the line
 
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