(01-18-2019 02:21 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I think Oklahoma would continue to recruit well in Texas even if they were to join the Big Ten. They certainly had no problems as a Big 8 school.

Rather than try to get both and risk getting nether I think the Big Ten and SEC offices would be wise to cooperate here. The Big Ten gets the rights to pursue Oklahoma and the SEC gets the rights to pursue Texas.

Once one group secures one of the bluebloods then the chances of the other conference landing the other goes way up. About the only way it doesn't is if the PAC 12 agrees to terms that they never concievably would allow.

Now if someone is willing to radically challenge what it means to be a conference and expand beyond 16 then we are in some completely unexplored territory. The SEC seems to me to be the player more apt to blow the whole system up. The Big Ten less so because the number of players out their that have both blue chip status and have the academics to match is much smaller.

Although, if the PAC schools have wandering eyes, there are about 8-10 schools that would make excellent members of a new B1G western contingency.