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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 13575, member: 622"]
To the poster re: VPI not going to the SEC, the SEC is very interested in VIrginia as a market.  VPI is also a perennial contender in name only.  Every year we hear how great VPI is but every year they falter and show us tey are nothing.  They generally play one of the easiest schedules in all of FBS football, take a look at their schedules over the last 30 years, Shiano learned his scheduling techniques from Beamer.  The FBS rule of allowing only one FCS opponent to count for Bowl eligibility was put in place because of VPI, Rutgers and others intentionally scheduling weak teams for good records.  The SEC knows this and VPI would soon be relegated to a bottom half team while still getting the Virginia market.  WVU would be an upper half team and the SEC would only get a small market.

To the poster re: Gentleman's agreement.  The agreement, as I understand it, is that they will only act if the team in the state with the potential new SEC team wants to block that school.  Thus, if UF has no objections to FSU joining the SEC, there would be no action to block it, but if UF did not want FSU, they would all vote against it.  In 1991, FSU had an invite and Florida had no problem with it, besides,Florida already plays FSU annually and recruits against them so I'm not sure UF would raise any objection.  I can definitely see UK stopping Louisville, too much competition in basketball and Louisville is hurting UK in football.  Also, of note, the have been denials that this gentleman's agreement even exists, so this may all be an exercise in futility.
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