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Sounds like they will stay in the Big12 until after the 24/25 season. That is another 4 years.
Unfortunately only 2 of them makes any sense. Why I’m not opposed to Texas and Oklahoma joining I would much rather see Miami and a NC state team join than FSU and the taters. Michigan and Ohio make 0 sense unless the SEC is just trying to take over everything and want to rebrand.
Honestly I think the NIL was spark that started the fire. Every school has someone if not a group of people looking at everything as a business model. I’m sure they had already planned for the potential of NIL and planned for what could cause this to grow. 20 years ago no conference really set themselves apart. The SEC then started to build like a business and promote all the teams. As far as money, marketing, recruiting, and brand goes that SEC patch on the jersey will start to make all of those things even easier. 100s of kids a year already sign in the SEC because they want the recognition that comes with it, add in the NIL and that patch is a money maker.Either way, wtf is going on with college football
NC state would be a good potential, let’s face it Miami is the right coach away from being a perineal powerhouse each year. They already have it easy in recruiting. If you really wanted to weaken the ACC that is the school to pull. FSU would fall even further behind and allow for more recruits to be pulled from FL. I personally wouldn’t want to see any teams from further north get thrown in the mix because that would hurt recruiting.
Cincinnati is another to consider and potentially West Va (unless Acc goes after these)
The SEC has to also be careful when going to far up north. Honestly college football is bigger in the southern part of the country. Fans will Travel to see their team play. Except in a few markets up north it’s no where near the passion it is here. You don’t want to alienate some of your fan base by going to far.
I agree. It only makes sense (because of the strength of their brands) to cherry pick powers like UM and OSU but if this really is going to a four super-conference alignment of 16 teams each, they might not need to move in that scenario? Who knows. It's all $$$.
