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Message: [QUOTE="SU94, post: 2741705, member: 202"] I think it is easy to assume that the SEC as a whole would accept this Wild West "we pay more" notion. But I don't sense that is ground in reality. Yes, I believe that Bama, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee are likely to embrace this, but I am not sure that schools like Florida, MIssouri, Ole Miss and Vandy would be "all in." At the end of the day, I think there are a lot more schools that would trend toward fiscal responsibility (most of ACC, Notre Dame, B1G, Stanford, etc.) and keeping a reasonable focus on the intended academic mission than those that would blatantly declare, "we'll do anything/pay anything to win football games, including compromise out academic integrity. We are a football factory first!" That model works for only about 8-12 schools nationally and a at least few that could be on the list are not likely to sell out their academic souls. Remember, Athletics Directors won't be making these final decisions. [/QUOTE]