Comments on: SEC Headlines 5/20/2012

By: SarahMartin

SarahMartin — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:31:21 +0000

John, it seems to me that superconferences are very likely now. It also seems, based on your analysis, that the ACC may be picked apart. If this is all true, there are several future articles for you to consider:
(1) What two programs would be next for the SEC? I think one from NC and VI make sense. I know people will say there are tag along programs in these states, but if there aren’t enough seats those requirements may go away.
(2) Will the Big 12 trry to form an eastern division with WVU? If so, what addition 6 programs make sense?
(3) What 4 programs will the Big 10 go after? Obviously Notre Dame, but who else from the east / northeast?
The answers to these questions will still leave a few ACC / Big East teams out of a home.
(4) What can the Pac 12 do if they become landlocked? If everyone is at 16 teams, but the Pac 12, then they will start to be left behind. There is BYU and then?

Thanks for the great articles.

By: AllTideUp

AllTideUp — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:56:57 +0000

@QuantrillsRaiders Yeah I thought that article was off with regard to Mizzou leaving.

People keep pointing to all the moves that the Big 12 has made over the last several months touting their stability while ignoring the fact that 4 major programs leaving was what made Texas and the others so desperate as to actually do things very differently.

Secondly, he assumes that the Mizzou decision makers had no idea this was coming. I don’t think that’s likely. If Slive and the SEC didn’t give full disclosure to the Mizzou people during their discussions(and they probably did) then even then it doesn’t matter. Reports are that Slive had been trying to make this deal for years now and I’m sure the Mizzou officials knew about it WHILE being a member of the Big 12. Perhaps this is another example of the Big 12 making a deal they wouldn’t have otherwise done if the 4 programs hadn’t left.

By: sfprman

sfprman — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:58:19 +0000

Sam Mellinger is a bitter Jayhawk. His non-sensical ramblings about what is simply a glorified Cotton Bowl (although the “bowl” should be played in New Orleans vs. Arlington which is a parking lot of strip malls)

By: QuantrillsRaiders

QuantrillsRaiders — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:32:46 +0000

Sam Mellenger’s argument about “Mizzou’s regret about joining the SEC” falls apart completely once he wrote, “The SEC is the most powerful league in college sports”. Plus, chances are that if Mizzou wouldn’t have left the Big12 in the first place, the 13-year signing over of rights would’ve never taken place. Before we left, we had been campaigning for extending the grant of rights beyond the original 6 years and it was shot down by Bevo & Co.