(01-05-2018 12:09 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 11:49 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Now that Georgia is playing Alabama for all of the marbles, I think the answer to the OP is "Yes!".

Perhaps. I wonder what Texas and Oklahoma would honestly value most between money, competitiveness, academics, rivals, and geography. The SEC offers more money, good geography, and on par academics. There wouldn’t be many rivals and they might struggle initially with the weekly football strength. They would do well in SEC basketball.

They would have the rivals they bring with them and Arkansas, Texas A&M, and Missouri and L.S.U. while not a rival would be convenient travel wise and somewhat familiar. The basketball in the SEC this year is projected to put 7 in the tournament. Even if it winds up being 6 that's doubling our recent output. But yeah, they would do well in basketball here.

I think the bigger issues are the minor sports. Swimming & Diving and Track and Field are already familiar foes to them. Baseball and Softball would fit perfectly into the SEC. And women's gymnastics is a big issue too for Oklahoma. And with SEC volleyball on the rise that works too. Wrestling is the only item that would lack with the SEC and there are other ways to schedule that sport.