(06-19-2019 09:27 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(06-19-2019 08:45 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-19-2019 06:49 AM)goofus Wrote:  You should swap Missouri and Texas A&M. A&M has shown a clear desire to be aligned with the traditional SEC schools. Missouri probably would prefer to be grouped with it's old Big 12 pals. Arkansas also fits geographically in the west, and has history in the SWC.

Missouri is the only SEC acquisition of the past 30 years that still doesn't "feel" like an SEC school, and they probably never will.

I bet they will, someday, end back up either with the Big 12 schools or in the B1G.

Most of the schools from the SWC and Old Big 8 are going to just feel grafted in wherever they wind up. The trick here Quo is to take the best of those two and create as Gamecock has stated above a division that fits with each other. And quite frankly that is why the Big 10 and ACC don't really seem to be a sound possibility for these schools. Nebraska, Colorado, and Missouri all chose to be where they are and that's the best you can say for them. The Huskers are beginning to graft into the B1G West. Colorado's alums tend to head West so there's that. The big issue for Missouri is the wonky positioning in the SEC East which was purely to satisfy Alabama gripes. They didn't want Auburn in the East because then they would have to choose between Auburn and Tennessee for an annual crossover game. So for Mizzou to come in they had to head East. It's just not a natural feel for fans. But that said they are closer to Vanderbilt and Kentucky that way.

IMO, if the Big 12 is parsed, the best way to do it is to graft in a division so that the core schedules and rivalries of the Big 12 schools joining don't change that much. That's why the conference that can accommodate Texa-homa will stand the best chance of landing them. Right now that would be the PAC or SEC.

They aren't particularly close to any of the west schools either outside of Ole Miss and Arkansas. Of the 5 closest schools, 3 are in the East.