Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC

[Swamp Donkey]

What are the next dominoes to fall? USC to Big10? ND to ACC? UF to Ivy league?

Big 12 teams to PAC or Big 10. Trailertrash leftover teams to Conference USA or USA 2.0.

 

[rogdochar]

Effective July 1, 2025. Four years from now. That should give everyone plenty of time to find a place to land in this chinese fire drill.

I hope you're right. Pretty lame if we have to wait 4 years.

Can we tie it to when our facilities will be completed? Just for assurance.?

 

[Double Gator Dad]

BTW, to keep the thread on its rails, I see UT and OU accepted their invites into the SEC. I am shocked. I thought they would respectfully decline!!!!!

I thought Texas would holdout for 2/3 of the overall revenue before they would agree

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I thought Texas would holdout for 2/3 of the overall revenue before they would agree

That didn't work out, but Fooley and Fooley's knee puppet did agree to give them 2/3 of our profit if they would agree not to participate in female sports.

 

[Ancient Reptile]

Im pretty sure they did a minimal appeasement to aTm by not putting them in the same pod as Tejas.

Each pod kinda looks equal based on current team strengths. Each have 2 strong teams and 2 weak teams.

I thought ATM wanted Texas every year???

 

[Ancient Reptile]

It doesnt matter to us. We're sniffing dwag ass for the foreseeable future either way.

Not this year.

 

[Theologator]

Feels like this expanded conference isn’t the SEC.

SC was a natural addition, Arkansas didn’t tip the scales much. A&M and Missouri diluted it a bit but not too much. Tolerable, and A&M has all the passion, but it has felt odd having them. Going to Columbia every other year? Might as well be Des Moines.

Now we’ve added 2 heavyweights that have zero connection to the southeast. The biggest and baddest dog on the block just got much bigger and badder, but it’s the SEC in name only. It’s gone and I’ll miss it.

I liked our conference being the dominant heavyweight, but now we’re the only super heavyweight. No argument.

And Mark Emmert better get used to saying “Yes, Mr. Sankey.”

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Im still expecting Missouri to jump to Big 10. We wont stop them.

 

[Theologator]

Big 12 teams to PAC or Big 10. Trailertrash leftover teams to Conference USA or USA 2.0.

The AAC teams are sitting by the phone waiting to be called up to the big leagues, but the only calls will be to expand the AAA league.

Curious where Kansas will land. They have zero football appeal but excellent hoops tradition.

 

[Gatordiddy]

Now we’ve added 2 heavyweights that have zero connection to the southeast

Seems to me it's becoming more and more common to dispense with the geographical leanings and look at what revenue a prospective school (football program) could bring to the conference.
I think the days of alignment based on where you're located are gone.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The AAC teams are sitting by the phone waiting to be called up to the big leagues, but the only calls will be to expand the AAA league.

Curious where Kansas will land. They have zero football appeal but excellent hoops tradition.

With WVU back in USA2.0

 

[Gatordiddy]

I was listening to the SEC Network the other morning and they were playing audio clips from the Texas legislature hearings about this.
And rep after rep was lining up to drop insults on the Texas president:

"Not everyone seems happy with Texas and Oklahoma applying to be a part of the SEC.

One Texas lawmaker used an opportunity during a session to rip on the Longhorns’ football team — which hasn’t been bad but not national championship-level good in recent years — with some shots taken at the move.

Let’s set the scene: here’s state senator Lois Kolkhorst (she used to play golf at TCU) speaking with UT president Jay Hartzell. She asked about the school’s athletic budget (to which he replied, it's first or second in nation, dollar-wise)and then she said, “without a winning football team of late.”

And then?

“Three and seven against the Horned Frogs,” she added. “Maybe your fanbase would rather lose to Alabama than TCU.”

actually it's really 2-7 since TCU joined the Big 12.

A Texas state senator savagely ripped Longhorns' football team over SEC move

 

[no1g8r]

Seems to me it's becoming more and more common to dispense with the geographical leanings and look at what revenue a prospective school (football program) could bring to the conference.
I think the days of alignment based on where you're located are gone.

Soon they’ll be saying that “SEC” stands for “Sports Excellence Conference”

Then Fuchs will start a campaign to rename it the “Scholastic Excellence Conference”, and soon all of the schools will be like Vandy and us.

 

[B52G8rAC]

Soon they’ll be saying that “SEC” stands for “Sports Excellence Conference”

Then Fuchs will start a campaign to rename it the “Scholastic Excellence Conference”, and soon all of the schools will be like Vandy and us.

I think we should name it the Football Confederacy.

 

[Gatordiddy]

I think we should name it the Football Confederacy.

the SECession Conference - or just Dixie.

 

[gingerlover]

Im still expecting Missouri to jump to Big 10. We wont stop them.

I like that idea but who’s our new number 16?

 

[gingerlover]

The AAC teams are sitting by the phone waiting to be called up to the big leagues, but the only calls will be to expand the AAA league.

Curious where Kansas will land. They have zero football appeal but excellent hoops tradition.

I think Kansas lands in a good place just because of basketball. There’s only a handful of basketball programs like that and I’m sure it will be appealing. Question is do they have to take little bro with them

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I like that idea but who’s our new number 16?

Okie State

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I think Kansas lands in a good place just because of basketball. There’s only a handful of basketball programs like that and I’m sure it will be appealing. Question is do they have to take little bro with them

Literally no one was slightly interested last time either.

There is only one sport that matter$.

 

[Theologator]

With WVU back in USA2.0

Or ACC with Notre Dame?