Mr. SEC: Mike Slive's list for expansion

Jimmy Hyams reports via a source at CBS that Slive has told network executives the SEC will target Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State and Clemson if the Big 10 goes to 16 teams. If the Texas schools say no, the SEC will pursue Miami and Georgia Tech.

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John Pennington has thorough analysis at the same link

and I weep for the commonwealth of Virginia.

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by Will Shelton on May 21, 2010 10:19 AM EDT reply actions

Miami is a pretty big market isn’t it?

My choice for expansion would be:
Texas, Texas A&M (comes w/Texas), Miami, and UNC.

by golfballs03 on May 21, 2010 4:14 PM EDT reply actions

UNC will never happen...

You’d have to take Duke and NC State… although I do think it would be nice to play our neighbor to the east more often.

Texas and Texas A&M are both great choice, but FSU and Miami will have to invest more in athletics if they join the SEC. Both schools have significantly less AD revenue than Vanderbilt.

My preferred order goes
Texas
Florida State
Miami
Texas A&M
Clemson
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
Virginia
UNV
NC State
Louisville
Maryland

then a whole bunch of Duke/Wake Forest/Tulane type schools in no particular order.

by CabanX on May 21, 2010 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions

John Pennington made a good argument for Maryland on Sports Talk today

Baltimore market, huge upswing for SEC basketball (which often gets overlooked in all of this)

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by Will Shelton on May 21, 2010 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, crap.

I’d have to set foot in College Park if that happens. (Although Maryland’s penchant to grill anything that moves would make it partner well with LSU.)

Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.

by Chris Pendley on May 21, 2010 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions

that would be awful

by golfballs03 on May 22, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

The trouble with Maryland is that there ain’t a lick of Southern in them.

by Incipient_Senescence on May 22, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

i'm not saying that UNC is realistic

but they would be in my top 4

by golfballs03 on May 22, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions

FSU has a smaller AD budget than Vandy?!?!

Neyland Stadium-It goes to eleven.

by jimvols on May 23, 2010 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Texas #1 add for the markets

Texas A&M because they have to come along with Texas and they have the rabid school spirit typical of the SEC.

Florida schools (Miami) because of recruiting and the South Florida market. Remember that Gainesville gets you completely different pieces of the Florida market than Miami does.

Clemson isn’t that great an add but the folks from South Carolina should like having a rivalry as a conference game as well.

GA Tech gives you the Atlanta market in a more complete way and is great for recruiting the city of Atlanta. That’s not a tremendously strong argument, but it’s a factor.

I still like Vince Dooley’s (former AD) observation that each SEC school already gets $17M, so any school we add needs to bring in at least $17M to make sense.

I still believe that, once you get beyond the Texas and Miami options, you don’t add much in the way of economics.

by memphispete on May 22, 2010 6:59 AM EDT reply actions