to get whacked and the Rose Bowl tie-in is really valuable and valued by them. Plus, working in that much travel to the West Coast is hard to work in. Adding a 7 team western division to B10 makes some sense. If that's the case they could add up to 7 more teams, something like UNC, UVA, maybe Clemson, Duke NCSU and a couple others (VT and FSU)?

2. I think the Canes are a bit vulnerable and that it is probably true that they and FSU are talking the the SEC to be preemptive (unlike us). That's, yet again! why I'm still pissed about the 2012 sitution.

Now the Canes are probably lurking trying to backstab everybody. They are intelligently trying to limit their downside risk and grabbing a spot while the can.

3. It seems like a longshot, but maybe somehow state politics gets Texas blocked from going to SEC. Maybe that is why they are jumping now, before the A&M contingent can get legislation passed. As I said back in 2012, the only reason for us not to jump was if it played out that Texas and ND came to the ACC, that situation (despite having a lower payout) might be preferable to joining the SEC. Then even I would regret leaving the ACC. In my opinion, that scenario had a pretty low probability then and even lower now, so the best move was to grab the SEC spot in 2012. Here we are. in a situation where we have to thread then needle and it didn't have to be that way.

4. These people floating these big conferences with USF, UCF seem to be really wrong. The economics make little sense. I can see a 28 team B10 with a 16 team SEC, but the number of relevant team is shrinking and that is that danger. If the SEC can nab Ohio State and Michigan and go with 18-24 big boy teams we are really screwed.

5. Do others see this possiblity that the number of viable slots could really shrink and that is quite risky for us?

6. You can argue that academic considerations will prevent a smaller select group of schools, but when the money gap widens more and the SEC dominates the selection process, it seems pretty obvious to me that school presidents will protect their athletic department and financial/football considerations will dominate academic concerns.

Do you really want to make the bet that even academic-minded presidents will risk that their football teams fall to second-tier status relative to the SEC? I don't.

7. This new SEC will extremely brutal and that is the one thing that I can't figure out. The won/loss records will be much worse for those schools. They are willing to make this move in spite of this one drawback.









[Post edited by TDVick at 07/27/2021 8:02PM]