I dont get the A&M to SEC rumors. Is the addition of A&M going to give the SEC that much more leverage when they renegotiate their deals with ESPN and CBS? Cause if not you’re just splitting the pie between more teams, since they would ultimately add a 14th team to balance the divisions. The SEC is doing fine without the state of Texas.

The SEC signed a deal in 2009 that locks them in basically forever at like $17m a school. In 2011, that’s now less than the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 are getting. Expanding, no matter which team it is given clauses in that deal, allows the SEC to void that deal and negotiate a new one. The Big East thinks it’s getting a mega deal with all the competition for live TV rights. What would the SEC get? That’s why adding Texas A&M and another school makes sense.

I dont get the A&M to SEC rumors. Is the addition of A&M going to give the SEC that much more leverage when they renegotiate their deals with ESPN and CBS? Cause if not you’re just splitting the pie between more teams, since they would ultimately add a 14th team to balance the divisions. The SEC is doing fine without the state of Texas.

I’m here miz; a bet about whether or not Adam Scott will or will not fire his caddy for being an obnoxious douche?

yes. you think he will by the end of this week, correct?

Isn’t aTm more highly ranked academically than OU?

I think they do have a medical/research… not sure about anything else. UT has a ton, just none of it in Austin.

/not spending four years in Houston

It might be in some rankings — I guess the problem with A&M is its culture which seems like it might clash with the university cultures on the West Coast.

That’s why Texas is really the only logical school out there (maybe OU) for big-time Pac-10 expansion.

Isn’t aTm more highly ranked academically than OU?

Baylor’s a religious school? I honestly had no idea

Largest Baptist (or some other religion) school in the country maybe?

Oh yeah. But the only way Baylor was going was with UT. Nobody wants Baylor in terms of a super-conference for sports.

To echo SC, for Stanford and Cal, academics do matter. That’s why Texas is really the only logical school out there (maybe OU) for big-time Pac-10 expansion.

Straight Cash:

/needs more Homie
//didn’t bother to read the post

Let’s be serious, academics won’t determine much here.

For the Pac-12 they do. It’s the reason Potato State Community Tech is still a WAC school. Pac-12 schools must be research centers.

/moderated

They balked at BYU and Baylor because they didn’t want religious schools, I thought.

Baylor’s a religious school? I honestly had no idea.

Let’s be serious, academics won’t determine much here.

For the Pac-12 they do. It’s the reason Potato State Community Tech is still a WAC school. Pac-12 schools must be research centers.

I would be very surprised if the Pac-10 took OSU or TT based on academic standards.

Right. If they opted for Colorado over BYU, which would have made far more sense athletically, it would be tough to see them picking up anyone other than OU and A&M.