The Presidents and Chancellors of the Southeastern Conference met on Monday for its regularly-scheduled fall meeting. While they discussed a wide range of issues dealing with the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics, no actions were taken with regards to expansion.
SEC Statement on Today's Meeting
The SEC has apparently figured out that silence leads to rampant speculation and rumors, so it has been releasing statements like these following important meetings. If you're having trouble deciphering the code language used here, they talked about but didn't vote on expansion.
This is in direct contrast to the Big East, which today chose to expand to 12 football teams today. If West Virginia and Louisville don't leave (both have been rumored to be potential Big 12 expansion targets), the conference will need to add six members by the time Pitt and Syracuse leave to maintain 12 members.
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Big East adds Boise, Air Force
Big 12 adds WVU, Louisville. Remember when conferences made geographic sense?
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by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Oct 10, 2011 12:58 PM EDT reply actions
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But Air Force has already turned down the Big 12 in order to go for the Big East instead. The AD said his school can’t recruit up against schools like Oklahoma and Texas, so he won’t put his team in that league.
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It would be cool
to see one of the service academies win the big east and play in the orange bowl (while the auto bid lasts). Navy and Air Force would be just as in the mix as anyone else in that wasteland.
by Mark Mandingo on Oct 10, 2011 1:02 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
The Big East lost its Orange Bowl bid years ago. It’s the only BCS AQ conference without a tie-in. That’s how BE champ Cincinnati went to the Sugar Bowl in ’09.
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I meant auto bcs bid
But I worded it poorly. I mean it would be cool to see them play in a bcs bowl. I just picked Orange because it popped in my head. Bad sentence structure did me in.
by Mark Mandingo on Oct 10, 2011 2:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'd love to see the service academies in a relevant conference.
Not that the Big East is relevant and not that the service academies could ever become national powers again unless the college football structure is turned on its head, but it would be fun to see those teams compete in something other than near total anonymity.
hopefully they'll be discussing how LSU doesn't have a SEC night game
for the first time since 1935 and how to rectify it. This is of grave importance.
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Lose 4 games and get off CBS.
by Mark Mandingo on Oct 10, 2011 2:11 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
This clearly means
they met, decided to take Mizzou for the sole purpose of building them into a middle-of-the-pack SEC team, and then grinding K-State into dust ASAP. Not because they like Mizzou, but because NOBODY mocks the SEC.
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This means it's a done deal...
The only question now is whether the SEC will look east to add #s15 and 16.
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