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[QUOTE="AcAndAc, post: 5348385, member: 10310"]
The reality is that this is like sandlot sports.  The SEC/B1G are fighting each other to rob all other conferences of anything that adds value.  They are going to be Coke and Pepsi eventually.

The good news is that the bar to add value is getting higher.  If they make $60M per year, they need to add schools that bring in $60M per year (and not just $40M).  And UNC is the most valuable asset out there because it packages a new market for both the SEC/B1G.  Clemson and FSU add no new markets for the SEC.  To be sure, their games will be watched though, so you cannot completely rule it out.

I could see the SEC pivot towards hoops by adding UNC, UVa, Duke, and Kansas.  Geographically sane.  Academically sound.  Would add great hoops to the current dominant conference.  The SEC just said that they are trying to add value to Saturdays post-football.  See this weekends Auburn-Alabama game, purposefully scheduled for TV.  For football, provide another MW team for those teams.  Not great football schools, which actually means more wins for the Alabamas and Georgias. Would justify a 9th conference game.  They do not want to do that because it adds losses.  This way, they would keep wins and the $$$ in conference.  Adding value?

SEC West: Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Mississippi, Mississippi State, LSU, Kentucky

SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, UNC, Duke, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Let's hope not.
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