Of course you guys do know that A&M and Missouri were both AAU members and that if Slive and the presidents wanted to continue to build markets and add academics the SEC could look quite differently when realignment is up. Whether we go to 16 or 20 if academics and markets are the organizing principle we could wind up with a conference that looked like this.

At 16 we go for two of the three out of Kansas, Iowa State, and Texas.

At 20 we go for Duke, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and Pitt with two football additions.

The first adds or solidifies two markets and gives the SEC 6 AAU schools.

The latter adds three states and you would have to assume that if Virginia and Virginia Tech were offered we could go to 6 with 4 states and as many as 9 AAU schools. The prospect of keeping Duke, Virginia, North Carolina and Virgina Tech together might be enough to sway those schools. With the SEC enhancing its own version of the CIC this possibility can not be overlooked.