ACC Teams Closing the Door on SEC?
VA Tech and Miami hve just put out some solid statements indicating they are not interested in joining the SEC.
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2010/6/11/1513549/conference-expansion-st…
An interesting question is whether the SEC has the right to renegotiate contract amounts if it adds a new team to the conference. If it does not, there is not a big short-term advantage to expanding. Does anyone know the answer to this?
Trust me, ESPN will make adjustments. Do they really want to piss the SEC off? B10 already went with their own network and Fox made a run at ACC and is sniffing around P10. ESPN will make it work.
When asked if the SEC could renegotiate its 15-year contracts with ESPN and CBS that went into effect this past school year, should the league expand, Slive said, "It's not unusual to have clauses in contracts if a league should get smaller or bigger."
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jun/02/sec-boss-slive-coy-on-…
The NC State fans on my street tell me the SEC is an academic wasteland. I believe many schools will stay put in the ACC because of academics. Clemson - maybe.
And that's coming from one of the absolute worst academic schools in the ACC. And they can say that because they're still way better than just about anyone in the SEC but Vandy.
I wasn't gonna say that, but yeah.
Georgia and Florida are fine academic institutions and better certainly better than NC State, but you're pretty much spot on about the rest of the SEC.
I have to believe that as two football centric schools in a basketball conference VA Tech and Miami would at least consider a move to the SEC
The Baltimore-Washington area is a prime VT media market, and it's one that hasn't been an SEC hotbed before. Miami, on the other hand, has been because of Florida. Miami's alumni base is miniscule, and its pool of fans is mostly limited to South Florida.
If it's smart, the SEC should target a school on the edge of its geographic area, such as Virginia Tech, a Texas school, or someone from North Carolina.
My take from this: where are Florida St. and Clemson?
They're not the ones that were mentioned in the latest rumor-spout.
It WILL be A&M and Oklahoma to the SEC. I'll be ALL my MgoPoints on it.
... but I'm thinking the same thing. Not sure which way TX goes, but i think A&M, OK and Okla St are headed East.
Not OK State, just OSU and A&M. Then OK State to the Mountain West with Baylor/TT. Kansas/KSU/Mizzou to the Big East. I don't care about ISU. But might join the MWC after Utah goes to the Pac10.
OK is in a perfect position to get what they want. They can play SEC and P10 off against each other. I think they make SEC take Okla St. (same deal they are offering P10). To be honest, if you don't care about academics, it's not even a bad fit for SEC. But who really knows until it happens.