(11-10-2017 07:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-10-2017 07:25 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.

Of course they will! It's just that they don't have to play but 1 every three years, which is a big game to add into the rotation of both schools. What Missouri has had to suffer is being out of their own division of friendly faces. If we added 4 and created a Southwest division that just returns us to natural divisions.

Just give Missouri and Arkansas to the Big 12 and get back to what the SEC should be.