Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC

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Well, in football since no one saw this coming..................... they could invite Notre Dame and Clemson.
Both schools are locked into their ACC contract until 2037, is the Big 10 going to wait 15 years for those schools to leave the conference and join theirs?

A conference can invite any school it wants to invite, but like everything both sides have to be WILLING and ABLE to make the move. Saying the Big 10 could invite UV, UNC, Clemson and ND is one thing, but are those schools WILLING and ABLE to make the move is something totally different.

Both ISU and KU would be willing and able to move if the Big 12 folds up without OU and UT, it will be every schools for themselves.
 
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Yeah, even if OU and Texas were to stay, it would behoove the other teams in the conference to try to find a way out, if it’s there. We can’t keep dealing with a destabilized conference every other year because their panties are in a bunch about something.
Yet, ironically, the two biggest cry babies leaving WILL stabilize the conference.
 

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Listening to Dan Patrick, a few things said.

1. He doesn't understand why Oklahoma would do this. Their path to a championship is easier in the big 12.

2. Albert Breer was on saying schools like Michigan and USC will be fine but schools like Iowa and Washington should be concerned if we go the route of super conferences.

The domino effect of this goes beyond the Big 12

I agree. NIL has essentially rendered the NCAA obsolete when it comes to football....hell they don't even run the championship now. Imagine you are an AD at Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida....and see that affiliation with the NCAA and it's rules no longer have to apply....why wouldn't you, at minimum, reach out to the most attractive 24 schools nationwide and say "hey, we can make all the football money...all of it...and essentially act as a semi-pro developmental league for the NFL."

Football only, 24 teams, 2 divisions, 11 games against your division + one from other division, top 2 in each division make a playoff.

Florida, Miami, Florida State, Clemson, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi St, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Auburn, Texas A&M, LSU, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, USC, Oregon

Which of those schools is a firm no if the rest are leaning yes? They already dominate football recruiting....12 games every week with only those schools involved (5 at noon, 5 at 3:30, two games in primetime); what would a TV contract like that look like? What would the playoff contract look like? Those 24 teams would own a day of the week for the entire fall.

Those AD's have no obligation to worry about the program survival at Vanderbilt, or Georgia Tech, or Utah, or Iowa State. All the tradition and rivalry and geographic considerations in the world can't match up with the mountain of money those 24 schools would be dividing up. Even Notre Dame, presented with that scenario, would have to either jump in or schedule what's left of the big 10/big 12.

Really hope this doesn't happen, but consolidation has been the way of the business world for quite some time...
 

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Yet, ironically, the two biggest cry babies leaving WILL stabilize the conference.

Even if it will stabilize the conference, it will stabilize it as a G5 conference, meaning we will lose tremendous amounts of money and recruits, and therefore probably lose our coaching staff and any facility upgrades.
 

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Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:

1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
 

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Both schools are locked into their ACC contract until 2037, is the Big 10 going to wait 15 years for those schools to leave the conference and join theirs?

A conference can invite any school it wants to invite, but like everything both sides have to be WILLING and ABLE to make the move. Saying the Big 10 could invite UV, UNC, Clemson and ND are one thing, but are those schools WILLING and ABLE to make the move is something totally different.

Both ISU and KU would be willing and able to move if the Big 12 folds up without OU and UT, it will be every schools for themselves.

And, Missouri is just as locked in to the SEC contractually. If the Big Ten wishes to expand, KU and ISU are about the only options. Would everybody try to go to 16 teams just because the SEC is doing it though? Difficult to know.
 
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Wouldn't we be the only team in the conference without a baseball team too? Pitt would be a better pick for the Big 10 than ISU would.
With B10 money ISU could start baseball up if needed in a year. Again, it’s like 90% football, 5% academic profile, 4% men’s BB and 1% everything else.
 
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Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:

1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
Kicking Vandy out would be very SEC. They don’t like those nerds.
 
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Wow! One thing I know for sure: if you're already on the bandwagon of doom, you'll be of no help whatsoever finding a life raft. Or, for that matter, building a better ship.
 
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Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:

1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
Good grief.
 

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Both schools are locked into their ACC contract until 2037, is the Big 10 going to wait 15 years for those schools to leave the conference and join theirs?

A conference can invite any school it wants to invite, but like everything both sides have to be WILLING and ABLE to make the move. Saying the Big 10 could invite UV, UNC, Clemson and ND are one thing, but are those schools WILLING and ABLE to make the move is something totally different.

Both ISU and KU would be willing and able to move if the Big 12 folds up without OU and UT, it will be every schools for themselves.

I understand. But in this day and age do contracts mean anything anymore? Especially in college football? So they have to cough up some cash to break away from the league. So what. I was responding to the **** measuring contest thrown down by the SEC and how the Big Ten would react. Well, those two are the biggest ****'* left. ISU and KU don't measure up.
 

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Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:

1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
Then Vandy and Mizzo to the BIG12 ?
 

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Just heard through the rumor grapevine some pretty crazy stuff. Guy I know in ATL who knows some boosters close to UGA AD:

1. Word around UGA boosters is that Texas could make the move to SEC in as soon as 2 weeks
2. OU and OSU are a package deal to the SEC. OU wouldn’t leave without them.
3. If all 3 were to join, you could see Vandy and if needed, Missouri kicked out.
4. Auburn isn’t very well liked but it’s unlikely they would be kicked out.
I don’t think the SEC can just kick out schools.