(08-21-2021 03:24 AM)JRsec Wrote: (08-21-2021 12:15 AM)DawgNBama Wrote: The SEC does make more money or will make more money than any other conference, but unlike the ACC, the SEC has no GOR, so the SEC could be poached legally. That would not benefit most conferences, but it could benefit one, the B1G. If A&M is truly not happy with being conference partners with Texas again, it could make inquiries to the B1G. Might even feel like some sweet revenge to the Aggies. However, a word of warning to Texas A & M: the SEC has never invited back a former member. Then again, A&M is a little more strategic to E$PN's strategy, so an exception might be made, or would it???? Besides TAMU, there are other members to look at as well. What wouldn't be better revenge for FOX if the B1G could land the Gators?? Not saying that UF would accept, but the B1G would be foolish to not inquire, IMHO.
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No, and no. If Florida had wanted to leave they would have done it in the 70's instead they doubled down. Where did you get this notion? The link didn't work.
A&M's administration was on board for the record and fans don't make decisions of executive nature.
And one other thing while the SEC has no exit fee and has never needed one, ESPN did insist on a GOR to cover their broadcast investment. So nobody is just waltzing out. Though I do not hold such a GOR to any different standard than others. It like all of them however would be an entanglement at the least.
Actually, and here's the kicker JR, you did, although you didn't use those exact teams. If I recall, the team you mentioned as going from the SEC to the B1G was Mizzou. I figured if Mizzou was in play, anyone truthfully was in play.
I never heard of an SEC GOR before. So, Disney
anticipate J.R. Ewing (Dallas) style backstabbing. Hmmm.
And while it is true that fans don't make conference level decisions, the alumni, through a roundabout way in that they assist the state governor with selecting the administration do. Notre Dame has had a president and/or an AD in the past that dared to enrage the alumni association, by trying to gradually get ND into the B1G and they (he) paid for it!!! Auburn had football coaches in the past that were supported by the president of Auburn himself, but were forced out by the alumni association. Texas A &M's former president stated that he was actually on board with joining the PAC 12 with Texas, but was told by the alumni association in no uncertain terms his tenure would be over if he went through with that.
The lone exception to this is Maryland, where the administration was actually able to sneak something by the alumni association and get away with it!!!
If the TAMU alumni association still likes the SEC, then I will agree with you JR. However, for all of the commotion coming out of TAMU when E$PN snuck Texas and OU in the SEC, I would say that the move at least rubbed some folks' fur the wrong way among the alumni.
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