Texas A&M/SEC megamerge thread extravaganza

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#651
DeerPark,

I'm hearing very different stuff than you. I know Bama is for it (and they recruit heavily in TX). I also have on good authority that every team in the West is good with it, along with UGA, and UT. I know that leaves four teams, but the only stirring of dissent I'm hearing is Vandy, and even they are not really fighting it, just not joining the discussion.
 
#653
#653
bamawriter said:
DeerPark,

I'm hearing very different stuff than you. I know Bama is for it (and they recruit heavily in TX). I also have on good authority that every team in the West is good with it, along with UGA, and UT. I know that leaves four teams, but the only stirring of dissent I'm hearing is Vandy, and even they are not really fighting it, just not joining the discussion.
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I also understand Alabama is for it, but I would strongly disagree with the suggestion that every team in the west is in favor of it.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
I also understand Alabama is for it, but I would strongly disagree with the suggestion that every team in the west is in favor of it.
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My contact is tied to Bama, so that could certainly affect his viewpoint, but he's saying Bama and Auburn are championing the cause. LSU and Arkansas are in support, and the Mississippi schools are just happy that they get to vote (the last bit was my spin, not my contact's).
 
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#658
UTVOL02 said:
So the other 3 won't be happening anytime soon? What's your best guess as to when the SEC has 16 teams?
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I would assume by 2014. But there's a long way to go to get there.

To get to 16 in the SEC, would mean that you would likely end up with the break up of the Big 12, and the ACC or BigEast, with the remaining one of the ACC/BE absorbing most of the other.

Or, the Big 12 will remain and absorb half of CUSA, which would be disasterous to the Pac12 and their desire to get to 16.
 
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UTVOL02 said:
So the other 3 won't be happening anytime soon? What's your best guess as to when the SEC has 16 teams?
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well it took 1-2 years before this aTm move came....id assume they'd need at least a year to talk anyone they haven't spoken to into making a move

....so work with that?
 
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#660
bamawriter said:
My contact is tied to Bama, so that could certainly affect his viewpoint, but he's saying Bama and Auburn are championing the cause. LSU and Arkansas are in support, and the Mississippi schools are just happy that they get to vote (the last bit was my spin, not my contact's).
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:eek:lol:

alright I'm set, they're the ones we should be moving around afterwards
 
#661
#661
The scenario that would cause the least damage to college sports as a whole would be for the major conferences to remain but to expand to 14. That would probably eliminate the Big East and the Mountain West as viable conferences. CUSA would become a quasi-major conference.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Well DeerPark since you seem to be in the know, have they discussed rivalries at all?
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I don't know. I doubt it. Would largely depend on who comes in. The schools have strongly resisted going to 9 conference games, they'd have no choice in a 14 or 16 team conference. I would assume that there would be two permanent rivalries, but I don't know.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
I don't know. I doubt it. Would largely depend on who comes in. The schools have strongly resisted going to 9 conference games, they'd have no choice in a 14 or 16 team conference. I would assume that there would be two permanent rivalries, but I don't know.
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so you're saying if 9 conference games, your assumption would be each team tied to 2 cross-divisional opponents (like how UT used to play bam a & arkansas yearly) and one changing opponent?
 
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#669
Damn this is getting intense.

Good info Deerpark.

IS the main roadblock with Virginia Tech, UVA?

Is there anyway you could get just VT in the SEC?
 
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TrueOrange said:
so you're saying if 9 conference games, your assumption would be each team tied to 2 cross-divisional opponents (like how UT used to play bam a & arkansas yearly) and one changing opponent?
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That would be my assumption. But it depends on how divisions are set up in a 16-team arrangement.
 
#671
#671
Why would they add an extra cross divisional game?

And with 16 teams, that would be 10 conference games.
 
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#672
Ericvol2096 said:
Damn this is getting intense.

Good info Deerpark.

IS the main roadblock with Virginia Tech, UVA?

Is there anyway you could get just VT in the SEC?
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I think Virginia Tech won't be allowed to come without Virginia. Ditto for North Carolina without NC State. That's what I mean by legislature problems.

The University of Virginia and the Virginia Legislature worked very hard to get Tech in the ACC. That's something not to be forgotten.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Why would they add an extra cross divisional game?

And with 16 teams, that would be 10 conference games.
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Because the chances of Auburn/Georgia and Alabama/Tennessee going away is something those schools don't want to see.

No chance you see 10 conference games, even in a 16-team league. There would be a three or four division set up in a 16-team league.
 
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