(07-25-2021 10:36 AM)Claw Wrote: (07-25-2021 10:34 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (07-25-2021 10:27 AM)Claw Wrote: A less likely but still possible scenario is Kansas and OK State both going to the SEC as well.
IMO, the SEC would have no interest in either school. They would be mouths to feed from an SEC point of view.
Not that I am necessarily the Oracle about what the SEC point of view is, LOL. But I don't see why the SEC would want them at all.
The SEC works because of geography, not accountants. They know that. Those schools fit with OK and Mizzou. That type of fit is how you become the only game that matters, and being the only game that matters is what drives the money.
IMO, they aren't worth $55 million each.
But let's say they are. If we are talking "fit", I think there would be a danger to the SEC in bringing them in. The SEC already has Arkansas, Missouri and Texas AM. Now throw in Texas and OU. That's 5 schools with basically Big 12/SWC/Big 8 histories. These schools have a southwestern/western kind of culture. That alone could cause a kind of schism in outlook for a conference that has a southeastern culture.
Bring in KU and OSU, and now you are talking 7 of 18 teams with an essentially southwestern/great plains outlook. That IMO changes the character of the conference, and in a way that is undesirable from the POV of core SEC members.
Be careful you don't bite off more than you can chew. Heck, the Big 8 thought it was swallowing the SWC, but ended up swallowed by them.
5 out of 16 is enough of that influence, IMO.
For that reason, if the SEC is really bent on going to 18, I think it will almost surely be in the other direction, towards the East, inviting ACC schools like maybe Clemson or FSU or North Carolina or Virginia, maybe even NC State. Two from that group. That bolsters the "southeastern" culture.