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The State of the SEC
The state of the SEC is strong. The conference just won its sixth consecutive football national championship after becoming the first league to put both teams in the national championship game. It won two of the last six men's basketball championships, put four teams in the past six Final Fours,...
Executive Director Sorry That The BCS Played Role In Conference Realignment
BCS executive director Bill Hancock is sorry that chasing membership in automatic qualifying conferences was a concern driving conference realignment. He says that a goal of the next BCS agreement (the current one runs out after the 2013 season) will be to provide conference stability. I would...
The SEC Needs a Conference Network, and Soon
The Big 12 saga is becoming more hideous by the hour, it seems. The conference has no cohesion, and the multitude of leaks are only making things worse. First they were going to take West Virginia. The press release was done and the commissioner had plans to go to Morgantown. Then that got put on...
Reports: West Virginia Mountaineers Headed to Big 12, Missouri Tigers to SEC
The New York Post first reported at 2:39 this morning that West Virginia is set to leave the Big East and join the Big 12. I am honestly not sure about the Post's reporting bona fides (given its tabloid-y nature), which is why I didn't post anything earlier. However, CBS now has a source and Teddy...
TCU Likely to Spurn Big East, Move to Big 12 in 2012
The Big 12 is going to survive as long as the Longhorn Network and Oklahoma have nowhere else they want to go. It will keep its BCS auto-bid as long as the Fiesta Bowl exists and agrees take its champion every year. It's not on completely stable ground, but it's at least stable-ish. The Big East is...
Pac-12 Expansion Dead, Big 12 Still Alive
Last last night, the Pac-12 issued a statement saying that it has chosen not to expand: After careful review we have determined that it is in the best interests of our member institutions, student-athletes and fans to remain a 12-team conference. While we have great respect for all of the...
ACC Played Its Cards Correctly, but SEC Still Looms
I don't often compliment the ACC about much other than basketball. It's fun to look down on the conference as the SEC's little brother and relentlessly tease fans of its teams for the conference's perpetual football mediocrity. However, I have nothing but compliments for the way that the ACC...
Texas A&M to the SEC Makes Financial Sense, Texas to the ACC Does Not
Both yesterday's lead story from Sprints and an emailer Garie Ray got me thinking about the economics of conference realignment. The lead story from Sprints was about the marginal value of a team added to a conference. The SEC paid out $220 million this year from TV payouts ($144.1 million), shared...
Mike Slive Hopeful to Get Texas A&M in Conference for 2012-13
While Baylor's legal threats have stalled Texas A&M's move to the SEC, Mike Slive made some comments today at a speaking engagement that indicate that it is only a temporary condition: We remain optimistic that Texas A&M will be a member of the SEC and have started to look at schedules...
Report: Big 12 Schools' Legal Gambit Is About Oklahoma, Not Texas A&M [UPDATE: Maybe Not]
A report from the Waco Tribune says that Baylor and the other schools currently blocking Texas A&M's Big 12 exit are not really trying to prevent A&M from leaving. It's really all about Oklahoma: If Oklahoma reaffirms its commitment to the Big 12, the schools are expected to sign the...
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