First shoe drops on Mizzou Joining us

I think Auburn already indicated they would be OK as long as the Iron Bowl is left alone.

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Just trying to get rid of auburn. Wishful thinking.

 

Any team other than Florida State would be a huge disappointment for me. Forget about this new market stuff. Florida is the California of the east coast. Other than Texas, no other market available to the SEC is bigger than it. Hell, the NFL thinks enough of it to have 3 teams there. The SEC would do well to have two Florida teams when considering we have two teams from such urbane markets as Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Besides, not everyone in Florida loves the Gators despite what their fans might say.

As for Missouri, I would like to see them in the SEC as well, but after Florida State. Get the Seminoles in the conference, and then tell Mizzou to convince a school like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson or Miami to join the conference and they could be our 15th and 16th teams.

 

If that happens, it throws yet another monkey wrench into scheduling, since it's another rivalry game that now has to be preserved, like Bama/Tennessee.

 

I like it. Myself about Missouri. There fans suck.

 

With all that power, it looks like the South is trying to secede from the union.

 

Yes, I know it changes, but that looks too imbalanced.

 

:geaux: Florida State ain't coming. And none of the other ACC teams are coming either. There's a $20 million buyout now and the conference just made a preemptive move to stablization by accepting Syracuse and Pitt to make a 14 team league. None of them (ACC teams) seem even remotely interested in leaving where they're at and none of them have even made the slightest hint at wanting to come to the SEC. Might as well get ready to Welcome Mizzou or possibly West Va. as team 14. Raiding the ACC ain't happenin', IMO. :LSU231:

 

I know. I was just stating my preference. It reminds me of the last time the SEC expanded when they were trying to get two of Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State, and Miami to join the league, and we ended up with Arkansas and South Carolina. They're both good schools, but it always seems the SEC gets the short-end of the stick when it comes to expansion.

The one ace up its sleeve the SEC could have in raiding the ACC is its TV contract. I'm sure the next round of TV negotiations will result in the SEC receiving a significant bump in revenues because of the new markets, and the ACC schools could use the increase in this income to offset the $20 million penalty.