(07-21-2021 08:59 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(07-21-2021 08:39 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(07-21-2021 05:58 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  It's kinda impressive to think about how many losers OU and Texas moving creates.

Let's say they went to the SEC. The following teams would never again see the light of day in the reorganized SEC divisions: Miss State, Ole Miss, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Missouri. Let's say you're in the SEC East. You'd need UGAg, Florida, Auburn, Alabama, and Tennessee to all be down at the same time. Let's say you're in the SEC West. You'd need Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, and Oklahoma to all be down at the same time. The Big 12 would obviously be thrown into chaos. Every G5 would be in limbo pending the dominoes higher up. The Pac-12 would fall closer to the average G5 than the average P5. The Big 12 wouldn't be much better than that. The ACC would still be an awkward tweener between the SEC and B1G and everybody else. The B1G would be permanently at a cash disadvantage unless it was willing to cast off lesser members and somehow expand with top notch merchandise (ND and little else works). I would also assume the NCAA dies even more rapidly if this happens given that Sankey uses the NCAA as his personal gym speed bag on every presser at this point.

If true, it's a massive short term cash in for the SEC. A disproportionate cash advantage over the rest of the field. Vanderbilt would be able to outhire UNC and Duke for basketball coaches.... and basketball assistants.... and build better facilities.... just by being a loser doormat in football every year. It would be interesting over the medium term to see what top end fanbases end up getting whittled away at and dieing. Simple math says if Texas, OU, TAMU, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, TN, UF, and UGAg are all in the same conference they can't all do well. Some of them are going to be staring at steady diet of 8-4/7-5/6-6 for the rest of their lives. You don't keep filling up 100k stadiums going to the Poulan Weedeater Bowl every year. That's how you downgrade those programs and bleed them out.

Yep it creates 15 all in the East. Response to your schadenfreude.

The payouts involved are ~ 75 million a year per school.

I checked. The reporter cleared the story with his publisher who checked out the confidential source, so this is legit.

Other Texas reporters say there is likely fire with the smoke and that talks had been going on for some time.

I don't think this stops here. There will be some major moves as the B1G plays catch up.

Also the SEC's deal numbers jumped 150 million in the SI report so I wondered yesterday on an Oklahoma site if perhaps two additions were coming.

These moves might go a bit higher than 16 members. We'll see. But I think all conferences will be impacted and I also think what Sankey is pushing for, as cited in the SI piece, will lead to defections in 3 possibly 4 conferences including the SEC.

The loser count is everybody but 16 teams' wallets financially.

The loser count on the scoreboard will mean some blue bloods in the SEC will bleed out.

So, don't cut the counting short just looking east.

And if the politicians get involved in this mess the loser count could well be everybody.