(05-09-2017 01:25 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  The people suggesting OU doesn't fit the B1G are SEC fans claiming OU is "kinda" confederacy. They are Great Plains. sure Southerners made up a good chunk of the settlers, but first generation European immigrants made up the majority. There were never slave plantations there. There are no complaints coming from B1G people. Trammel is incorrect in this, just as he is in AAU being an absolute requirement. (R1 Carnegie and inside the top 10% of research schools is, an OU meets that).

We might consider Kansas, but OU is our focus, but it has nothing to do with the Old South. It has everything to do with our % of share in the DFW market without having to take another Texas school. With Arkansas, A&M and OU the SEC would have a strong % of viewers in DFW plus the state of Oklahoma. It is about efficiency. We could gain the same thing with Texas, but wouldn't be adding a state.

Kansas has issues. Averaging 24,000 for home football games is a wet towel in the face to the SEC. Basketball would be a huge plus but basketball is only 15% of our total revenue from sports.

I agree about extending conference footprints beyond old geographical boundaries. Certainly Maryland and Rutgers and Missouri and somewhat A&M have done that for the Big 10 and SEC.

I don't know where this will wind up but right now I see more advantages to 18 than to 16 and not as many at 20. The geography in the SEC is such that 18 would actually allow us to break into 3 divisions of 6. That not only makes most of your non revenue schedule local, but provides for some very tight groupings where the schools in the divisions have ample ties to one another.