The web site, Mr. SEC, has a very good blog this morning on the conference expansion prospects for schools most susceptible to moving. On clemson, it states, among other points:
"As for the SEC, at what point must a league protect its own region? Expansion is about gobbling up new cable households and new land, but would the SEC at some point feel better served to just grab a school within its existing footprint in order to keep other leagues out? We don't believe so. If the Big XII, for example, were to grab clemson it would add to that conference's bottom line, but it likely wouldn't hurt the SEC one iota. The Southeastern Confererence already has the state university in the Palmetto State (tweet THAT Dabo). The SEC's goal should be to grow its own wealth, regardless of what the competition does. Therefore, we believe it's Big XII or ACC for clemson moving forward."
So, clemson's options come down to 2:
1. Go halfway across the country to the Big XII, which will put clemson at a huge disadvantage in recruiting players from the states of South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina or;
2. Stay in the ACC, belonging to an inferior funded basketball conference, that's not a member of one of the Big 4 football conferences.
Which poison will clemson pick
"As for the SEC, at what point must a league protect its own region? Expansion is about gobbling up new cable households and new land, but would the SEC at some point feel better served to just grab a school within its existing footprint in order to keep other leagues out? We don't believe so. If the Big XII, for example, were to grab clemson it would add to that conference's bottom line, but it likely wouldn't hurt the SEC one iota. The Southeastern Confererence already has the state university in the Palmetto State (tweet THAT Dabo). The SEC's goal should be to grow its own wealth, regardless of what the competition does. Therefore, we believe it's Big XII or ACC for clemson moving forward."
1. Go halfway across the country to the Big XII, which will put clemson at a huge disadvantage in recruiting players from the states of South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina or;
2. Stay in the ACC, belonging to an inferior funded basketball conference, that's not a member of one of the Big 4 football conferences.
Which poison will clemson pick