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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3933152, member: 1145"] I think a bit more like TheCusian on this. The SEC has pushed the boundaries so that now it is either a choice between accepting SEC hegemony or else creating an alliance to resist and largely neuter SEC desires for hegemony. Let me start by saying that the SEC today is doing exactly what the Big Ten would have done already if Notre Dame had agreed to join the Big Ten as its 12th or 14th. If that had come to pass, then we would have required an alliance of ACC, Big XII, and SEC (the Pac would have continued to service the desires of the Big Ten) to neuter the Big Ten dreams of, and steps toward, hegemony. The key is whether the BT now realizes that it must act collectively to help save Major College Sports as we know them, which will require the BT to dampen its greed and hubris a good deal. I am not close to certain that the BT is at that point. I have no doubt that a host of BT movers and shakers would love nothing more than to to now act 24/7 to try to one up the SEC, which would mean trying to destroy the ACC and probably the Pac. That would be the antithesis of alliance - it would be another Evil Empire desirous of owning a monopoly. And I do think that the SEC plan is to alter all Major College Sports. SEC longtime internet posters are all over talking about how this means that soon the SEC will direct a secession from the NCAA by the remaining Major football playing schools, and that will mean that the SEC will remake the only National Championship basketball tournament that will matter, and will also fashion a new baseball CWS. The more that the richest are selfish and prideful in their selfishness, the more that greed becomes a god imposed on all. If ND fans on the internet are correct, then ND football is that exact type and will want to do nothing until the lest second when it will plan to take the highest buy out. If the BT movers and shakers remain that way too, then this alliance will effect nothing because it will be just another BT scam. In that case, the BT will survive, and probably get even richer, but the SEC domination over football will continue and might even become more pronounced. [/QUOTE]

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