New chatter that the SEC is after Clemson, FSU, Michigan and Ohio State too.
20 team mega conference? Hostile takeover of the NCAA?

Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

Tomas Hermensa said:

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Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

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Either one is better than whatever tech, okie state and Baylor get.

Clemson, UNC, Florida St and Virginia

It needs to all be about money going forward. Cull the bottom feeders. The Mississippi schools can join the big 12 with Kentucky and vandie.

FtBendTxAg said:

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Tomas Hermensa said:

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Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

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Either one is better than whatever tech, okie state and Baylor get.

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This

Sick of people acting like we are out in the cold. No, it is not the ideal scenario. Yes it is easy to see how we were backstabbed.

But we don't get to dictate the entire landscape of college football. Bright side, we get to be in the conference that does get to dictate it.

Eso si, Que es said:

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FtBendTxAg said:

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Tomas Hermensa said:

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Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

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Either one is better than whatever tech, okie state and Baylor get.

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This

Sick of people acting like we are out in the cold. No, it is not the ideal scenario. Yes it is easy to see how we were backstabbed.

But we don't get to dictate the entire landscape of college football. Bright side, we get to be in the conference that does get to dictate it.

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So is this about power? Or entertaining college football? By acquiring more of one, we might lose the other.

Tomas Hermensa said:

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Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

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May not have choice.

And **** baylor and tech. They got a free ride for too long.
We'd have been in sec 30 years ago if not for those parasites.

SEC is new NCAA.we'll see.

"College" Football hasn't been very entertaining for years now.

We might be going to two 20 team meggeconferences with only big-money schools (and a few lucky ones like Vandy) that kick out the NCAA completely and operate as a two leagues with their own "superbowl" like the NFL.

Teams 41-whatever are not even invited to their playoffs. Let them play themselves like Div 3 does.

This is exactly what I think is happening. NIL crippled the already weak NCAA and the SEC was waiting in the wings to pounce. Makes sense that they wanted to bring the filthy rich whorns on board first. Now SEC can say "either join us or we'll starve you out".
And also, eff the Sips!!

Need to add Clemson, UNC, Va Tech, and FSU.

Win At Life said:

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We might be going to two 20 team meggeconferences with only big-money schools (and a few lucky ones like Vandy) that kick out the NCAA completely and operate as a two leagues with their own "superbowl" like the NFL.

Teams 41-whatever are not even invited to their playoffs. Let them play themselves like Div 3 does.

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I think this whole thing is either going to mean some teams pull out of the NCAA, or there needs to be a separate Super division of these top 40 or so teams.

If I'm UNLV, UAB, East Carolina, or SMU, I would say you have to be considering dropping football, but I'm not sure it changes things that much. There was no path for them to be in the playoffs before and they weren't getting great media deals anyway. Not sure how much that changes.

You all realize this is complete horse **** right?

It absolutely is not.

Nm

RoadkillBBQ said:

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Clemson, UNC, Florida St and Virginia

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This.

Would rather VT over VA

Someone is really out to get this twelve team playoff.

I Could see the pac and acc imploding. Big 10 with 16 and sec with 16. Both culling the Dawgs and adding the creme from the other two.

Jimbo4win said:

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RoadkillBBQ said:

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Clemson, UNC, Florida St and Virginia

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This.

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Yep. That's a winning 20 team conference.

I am hearing chatter that this could also include USC, Notre Dame, Stanford, UCLA, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Each team will get one trillion dollars per season.

SoTexAg91 said:

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It absolutely is not.

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They are not going to blow up the entire B10 and ACC just to fill out the SEC with an all-star roster. Keep in mind, the B10 for one has a more lucrative media deal than the SEC currently.

Eso si, Que es said:

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FtBendTxAg said:

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Tomas Hermensa said:

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Is it better for A&M for the SEC to be a 40 team mega conference or for A&M to be one of the 14 members in the best conference?

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Either one is better than whatever tech, okie state and Baylor get.

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This

Sick of people acting like we are out in the cold. No, it is not the ideal scenario. Yes it is easy to see how we were backstabbed.

But we don't get to dictate the entire landscape of college football. Bright side, we get to be in the conference that does get to dictate it.

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Yup it is nice to be part of the party. Even though we were the first ones stabbed in the back by our "brotherly love" and "United" conference who keep the teams in it first.

Gives me a nice arm fuzzy feeling.

This all reminds me of the Super League that never got off the ground in Europe.

Baron Von Karbach said:

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This all reminds me of the Super League that never got off the ground in Europe.

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I'm convinced it is. Sankey is running a coup on the college football industry right now and nobody is talking about it. There will only be a handful of significant programs left and if those rumors are true about Ohio state, Clemson, Michigan, FSU are true then there will be nobody of significance left outside of the SEC (ND is like the blond girl in John Nash's equilibrium theory and they may actually cling to independence into oblivion).

Once he has his Super Conference, he will have achieved a relatively pure college football product that will garner huge tv revenues because every single game will be a marquee matchup.

He doesn't give a damn what we think right now because he's busy wooing other programs in. Also in this scenario, the bottom tier programs in the SEC will eventually get pushed out. As Josh Pate pointed out, "the SEC will eventually be just the name for college football"

If there are any lurkers from other SEC schools here y'all need to understand that Sankey's ultimate plan is to have all the elite programs in one conference and monopolize essentially all the college football revenue.

You need to ask yourselves and your leadership is you think your programs will make the cut in such a league. Because they're will be a lot of mid tiers left out to dry in all of this.

BadAggie said:

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I am hearing chatter that this could also include USC, Notre Dame, Stanford, UCLA, Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Each team will get one trillion dollars per season.

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Left out a WNBA team; wish I could name one for an example.

Baron Von Karbach said:

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This all reminds me of the Super League that never got off the ground in Europe.

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We have a winner. Fans don't necessarily want what maximizes revenue in theory.

BadAggie said:

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Baron Von Karbach said:

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This all reminds me of the Super League that never got off the ground in Europe.

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We have a winner. Fans don't necessarily want what maximizes revenue in theory.

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Thing is, seems like Sankey learned from that failure and won't give fans the chance to voice opinions. I think it's inevitable...

And I'm definitely gonna go ahead and be that guy and say maybe this means we get promotion/relegation in and out of a super-league model.

Baron Von Karbach said:

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BadAggie said:

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Baron Von Karbach said:

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This all reminds me of the Super League that never got off the ground in Europe.

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We have a winner. Fans don't necessarily want what maximizes revenue in theory.

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Thing is, seems like Sankey learned from that failure and won't give fans the chance to voice opinions. I think it's inevitable...

And I'm definitely gonna go ahead and be that guy and say maybe this means we get promotion/relegation in and out of a super-league model.

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No surer way to kill off interest at many schools than to introduce that kind of uncertainty. Donors won't even bother, imo.

Michigan is not exactly South East

The 4 team playoffs has become a bore. Bama and Clemson plus a couple others. Same thing every year. This appears to be the start of the expansion to 24 or even 32 teams into a super league. All games will be conference games.

NFL light. Schedules will rotate like the nfl does now. Heck fantasy football will even be possible with this structure.

You might even see a system where the bottom team drops out each year replaced by the lower level champion.

This probably happening over the next 12 months.

I'm here for it.

Leave the B1G clowns out of it though. They seem to think 5 wins is enough to earn a playoff spot.