(02-20-2016 04:10 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Given the present state of things and should the ACC remain unavailable, the SEC should agree to take Oklahoma and Oklahoma State with an eye toward moving to 18. The trick here is to offer Texas a division that they would relish. Agreeing to take Texas and another Big 12 member of their choosing to move to 18 would be essential to building the kind of SEC that could withstand remaining in a a cable footprint model or moving to a content based payout model based upon streaming.

Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas (and Baylor/Texas Tech) would do fine for a division that gives both Oklahoma and Texas familiar games against rivals.

Interesting argument. If the SEC grabbed OU and OSU, that would force UT to either put another band aid on the B12 or wait for the GOR to end and move into independence for football. If UT joined the SEC, they could move into a defacto Southwestern division. I still hope that talks fail this summer to convert the LHN into the B12N so that we'll see if OU is leaving the B12 alone or will bring OSU with them. Either way, I think Boren makes his 100 year decision soon.