BIG 12 EXPANSION

[generalhog]

Been doing a little thinking since that above post. A Texas & Oklahoma added to the SEC. Of course put them in the West. Then bring Missouri back over to the West where they rightfully belong. Then put the two Alabama schools in the East. You then have an SEC as follows:

WEST

Arkansas
LSU
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Missouri
Texas A&M
Texas
Oklahoma

East

Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vandy
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Kentucky

This will be a stronger SEC in perhaps several ways. Obviously strengthened power wise with the additions of Oklahoma & Texas. It will also eliminate the need of those blame crossover division games Alabama demanded to play Tennessee yearly. The Auburn/Georgia yearly game was also a big cog in those mandatory crossover division games as well. Both those crossover games would now no longer be necessary.

Auburn wanted to go to the East when Missouri entered the SEC. Alabama blocked it because they could not play both Tennessee & Auburn in crossover division games. So Missouri went to the SEC East.

You spend any time on big multi conference boards. All you hear from B1G people is Missouri would bail from the SEC in a minute on a B1G invite. I am not so sure of that. I think a lot of bad blood exists between Missouri & B1G beyond the recent rebuff of Missouri by the B1G when they took Nebraska. The bad blood goes back to 1990 when Penn State entered the B1G. I think that bad blood was why the B1G did not recently take Missouri with Nebraska. I was living in Indianapolis for several years in the real early 1990’s. I remember reading a small article buried in the back section of the Indianapolis newspaper sports section that Missouri had refused discussing leaving the Big 8 with the B1G to come to the Big Ten with Penn State. That is your bad blood. Anyhow putting Missouri in the West playing two Texas schools where they can recruit Texas like old Big 12 days will make them SEC happy. As for Hog recruiting, it probably will be helped by none of this.

The SEC can then go to a 9 game conference schedule like most other P5 conferences and play everybody cross division home & home in 8 year cycles. That is an improvement over the present situation.

Not going to happen. Texas will never come to the SEC and the SEC wouldn’t want them. Texas has been the ruler of the roust for decades, but if they come to SEC and they’ll be on the back burner with the likes of Alabama controlling the conference. Also, Texas has been apart of the killing of 2 conferences because of their arrogance and self-gratification. The SEC doesn’t want to add that much crap to our cargo.

If OU comes one day, then OSU has to come with them. OU will not leave OSU in the cold. So, you can replace Texas with OSU and you might be on to something.

[warhog38]

Not going to happen. Texas will never come to the SEC and the SEC wouldn’t want them. Texas has been the ruler of the roust for decades, but if they come to SEC and they’ll be on the back burner with the likes of Alabama controlling the conference. Also, Texas has been apart of the killing of 2 conferences because of their arrogance and self-gratification. The SEC doesn’t want to add that much crap to our cargo.

If OU comes one day, then OSU has to come with them. OU will not leave OSU in the cold. So, you can replace Texas with OSU and you might be on to something.

I would not argue about the fact of Texan insolence and arrogance among those tea sippers with anybody. I wouldn’t bet on the Longhorns ever being in the SEC because of that either. However college football is a changing dynamic that revolves around money these days at a constantly accelerating rate. The SEC shelled out $37 million dollars to each of it’s member’s athletic programs this last year. That figure is estimated by some to excel and have the SEC & B1G making as much as $25 million a year more than the Big 12 members within the next decade. Administrators at Texas have already publicly stated a willingness to fold that Longhorn Network if certain unnamed conditions developed. All these things could possibly help put Texas searching for a home in the SEC or B1G sooner or later. I don’t know how the decision makers in the SEC would respond to the possibility of getting Texas in the SEC. You do know Kramer tried to get Texas & Texas A&M to join the SEC before he ever contacted Arkansas or the Florida schools (FSU & Miami) in 1990. They both refused, Kramer then moved on to the Hogs.

I don’t know if the SEC would ever take OSU. Then you have the possibility that Oklahoma could lose that Red River Shootout rivalry game if they came to the SEC without Texas. Oklahoma puts huge importance on that game and losing that along with leaving OSU behind could keep Oklahoma from ever being in the SEC. It may have already done so years back if some things I have read are true. However you have that ever escalating all important money issue possibly drowning out any old school logic. Who knows what could happen in 8 or 10 years??