(06-02-2019 02:32 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: (06-02-2019 10:57 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (06-02-2019 02:21 AM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: Marquee programs have all earned their place at the top of CFB. Winning earns that kind of respect. Maybe the little guys should invest a little cash into dressing up their facilities and making the campus and athletic facilities something a recruit to want to be a part of. Yes it takes money, but this is the SEC. Go big or stay home.
IMO Missouri would be one of the programs "going home" in the long run if TX/OU go to the SEC.
Could be. The problem to me is the idea that a school's only goal is the national championship and less than that is failure. Whatever happened to having a good season, maybe winning your conference, and going to a bowl game? If we pick up Texas and Oklahoma why not just move Alabama and Auburn to the east, move Mizzou to the west and work it from there? Now you have Georgia vs Auburn, Alabama vs Tennessee, and maintain the Iron Bowl. Makes for some old time rivalries in the west as well.
That's all we need to do. Just look at the symmetry:
Arkansas, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
Rivals: Texas/OU, A&M/LSU, A&M/Texas, Ole Miss/MSU, UT/Ark
New potential rivals: LSU/OU, Ark/OU, Mizz/Ark, Mizz/OU
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Rivals: Aub/Ala, Aub/Ga, Aub/Fla, Aub/Tn, Ala/Ten, Ala/Ga, Fla/Ga, Fla/SC, Tn/Ky, Tn/Vandy, SC/Tn, Fla/Tn
You have two national rivalries in both divisions. UT/OU, UT/A&M in the West / Ala/Aub, Aub/Ga in the East.
You have strong regional rivalries in both divisions: L.S.U./A&M, UT/Ark in West / Ga/Fla, Fla/Tn
If the LHN is converted into a SEC West Channel and the Charlotte studio becomes the SEC East Channel then the SECN has two solid channels with the current 2nd overflow channel become simply the overflow channel.
The strength in both divisions would be relatively equal (at least more equal than now) and the CCG becomes an even bigger monster for national ratings.