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sugarlsu Founding Member

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Dat-Tiger-Fan said: ↑

What about adding Southern Miss along with A&M??? they fit geographicaly and have a great baseball program to go along with the football team..
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They would add nothing, in terms of money. That would be like giving up 1/14 of the SEC income for nothing. If they bring in more teams, bringing money to the table matters. I think the most important question is... can the new team bring in enough new viewers to increase the TV revenues by at least the cost of letting that team split the SEC pot. TaM might be able to, as they would bring in TX viewers.

sugarlsu, Jun 13, 2010

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In other words, you're scared of Texas.
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Only a fool isn't. We can compete with Bama and Auburn's money and recruiting, no problem. Texas is another matter completely and would change the character of the SEC West. With no school to add to the east to balance Texas, it would hurt the traditional SEC West powers chances of making it to the SECCG. meanwhile Florida and Georgia only add a team that they are likely already playing.

We are have been best conference in football without Texas. The SEC doesn't need them and LSU damn sure doesn't need them.

red55, Jun 13, 2010

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Just a hunch, but it looks like the Aggies are headed to the SEC.
I hope Texas gets stuck in what's left of the Big 12.

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Chip Brown from Orangebloods who has thrown about equal good info and bad info out there said that A&M turned down the PAC 10 today and a Big 12 AD confirmed it.

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COTiger said: ↑

Just a hunch, but it looks like the Aggies are headed to the SEC.
I hope Texas gets stuck in what's left of the Big 12.
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I haven't heard anything about the SEC extending an offer to anybody yet, in fact, Slive has consistently said that they have no immediate reason to make changes.

Additionally it is being reported that . . .

Meanwhile, a highly placed official of a Big 12 school told the Statesman that A&M has no assurance that it will be invited to join the SEC. A Pac-10 athletic director told the Statesman that, although A&M may have not have an official invitation from the SEC yet, "my opinion is they could go if they want. There's a lot still to work out."

The Big 12 school official — who spoke anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing conference realignment negotiations, in which he has been a key player — said the Aggies might not get an SEC option. "They don't have an offer," he said.

The official said the Aggies' indecision on whether to join the Pac-10 or shoot for the SEC does not endanger their option to join the Pac-10.

"I don't think they are risking anything, not if they're looking (at the SEC)," he said. And if A&M were to secure an invitation to the SEC, he said, the Pac-10 would seriously consider Kansas.
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That's why I said it was a hunch.

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I haven't heard anything about the SEC extending an offer to anybody yet, in fact, Slive has consistently said that they have no immediate reason to make changes.
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The media spin is in full force this weekend red. Two sources have Slive visiting aTm yesterday. Is it so? Who knows? If so Slive wants him some Houston market but at the same time he is probably slobbering for the Dallas market. Lesser of the two with minimal damage and greater impact is Houston. Boy toys or not.

SEC commissioner reportedly meets with Texas A&M; Pac-10 meets with Oklahoma, Okla. State - Sporting News staff reports - College Football - Sporting News

Your link is a longhorn link. Texas is married to Oklahoma by virtue of inbreeding but what Texas and Oklahoma want the most is to stayed married, as gay as that sounds. Could be just a nut for the squirrel to let aTm geaux it's own way to prevent a divorce forced upon the Dallas market.

I believe there is more spin out there now, more than ever and more so to influence any takers to geaux their own way. Orangebloods being the biggest spinners for the bonghorns. Hell, there is the story bout the CEO for Fed Ex that has offered 10 mil a year to any BCS conference that will take Memphis. WTF is that? After this mess, who even knows if the BCS survives the stretch?

Shipping exec willing to pay millions to get Memphis into BCS conference - Sporting News staff reports - College Basketball - Sporting News

I think the media, ALL media right now is pretty worthless littered with nothing but speculation. Tuesday/ Wednesday will be the day all the pieces will start falling together.

CajunlostinCali, Jun 13, 2010

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CajunlostinCali said: ↑

THell, there is the story bout the CEO for Fed Ex that has offered 10 mil a year to any BCS conference that will take Clemson. WTF is that? After this mess, who even knows if the BCS survives the stretch?

Shipping exec willing to pay millions to get Memphis into BCS conference - Sporting News staff reports - College Basketball - Sporting News
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i could have sworn i saw that story somewhere but it was fedex offer if memphis was taken. and i was thinking fedex was headquartered in memphis.

the whole thing is a circus.

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OkieTiger_KATT said: ↑

the whole thing is a circus.
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It certainly has! For anyone following closely, it's been very entertaining!

LSUGradin99, Jun 13, 2010

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It certainly has! For anyone following closely, it's been very entertaining!
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And there is more...

It might be a long shot.

But three different sources at Big 12 South schools being targeted by the Pac-10 told Orangebloods.com Sunday morning commissioner Dan Beebe's assurances that a new TV deal can be reached on par with the SEC's $17 million/school for the 10 remaining schools in the Big 12 is in play and being considered by Texas.
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THE BEEBE PLAN

Here's what Beebe has provided to the five Big 12 South schools who have been targeted by the Pac-10, including Texas A&M, who has been in deep conversation about joining the SEC, according to sources.

--Beebe has secured information that enough money could be inked in its next TV negotiation (in 2011) that revenues per school would jump from between $7 million and $10 million in the Big 12 currently to $17 million beginning in 2012, which is what the SEC pays out.

--The remaining Big 10 schools would divide up the more than $20 million in buyout penalties that will have to be paid by Colorado and Nebraska for leaving the league early.

--Individal institutions would be allowed to pursue their own networks, which has been a goal of Texas. If the Longhorns went to the Pac-10, they would have to forgo their own distribution platforms, including a network, because the Pac-16 would seek to have a conference network in which all inventory is shared.

(Consultants have put Texas' ability to generate revenue from its own network at between $3 million and $5 million after a start-up window of about three years.)

--The Big 12 would proceed with 10 teams. Everyone would play everyone in football, providing a nine-game conference schedule.

--The conference championship game would be dumped in the short-term (because the NCAA mandates 12 schools for a football title game).

--The loss of Nebraska and Colorado should have been a loss of about 16 percent to the league's revenue generating capacity. But because Colorado was an underperformer, the league lost only about 8.6 percent of its value with the loss of Nebraska, according to sources with knowledge of the Beebe Plan.
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Orangebloods.com - New proposal to save Big 12 with 10 teams being considered by UT

This I would love to see. Landscape remains slightly changed with Nebraska having it's better days in the big 10 and Colorado looking to make an impact on the pac whatever? I say let Texas have it's market while the pacific scratches it's head. Big 12 lite will become ever more delusional. This IMO would be priceless.

CajunlostinCali, Jun 13, 2010

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