When the SEC added Arkansas and South Carolina in the early 1990's Jackie Sherrill was interviewed on a Memphis radio station. He predicted 15 years ago that college football would some day end up with six to eight "super conferences" consisting of 12 to 14 members each.

I don't think he is a prophet, but he does like to cut the balls off of bulls!

Bull nuts for dinner.

I don't know how he can be a prophet when he said 6 to 8 "super conferences" with 12 to 14 teams and there are only 3 conference with 12 member, and they have no plans of going past that. And if Ohio State adds a school it would only make 4 conferences.

Too bad is prophetic skills didn't help him when he decided to leave Pitt....His career never recovered

Jackson

3601 Wrote:When the SEC added Arkansas and South Carolina in the early 1990's Jackie Sherrill was interviewed on a Memphis radio station. He predicted 15 years ago that college football would some day end up with six to eight "super conferences" consisting of 12 to 14 members each.

In the early 90's...the main conferences were:

Pac-10
Big 10
SWC
Big 8
SEC
ACC
and the new Big East

When the SEC jumped to 12...that's when the SWC/Big 8 schools started to talk...and they obviously eventually split in '97-'98.

Not sure the man was a prophet when at the time there was mainly 7 big conferences...5 of them with 9 plus teams that were looking to expand or merge to form a bigger/better one.

Once the SEC made the original move...the rest was set in motion...and all the other conferences have followed (all except the Pac 10).