« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2011, 09:54:50 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6861385/sec-extend-invitation-texas-leaves-options-open
Wow. Won't happen. Interesting. I think it's significantly possible that some high ranking SEC teams like Florida were like "No way do we want to play against the best recruits in Texas year after year" and I wouldn't be surprised if some middle of the road SEC schools like Tennessee and maybe Georgia and South Carolina were like "Yeah. We'd actually like a chance to win this league every once in a while" and low ranking teams like Miss St must have been thinking "And we want to have bowl years at least from time to time"
If I'm a league out there right now I'd consider getting aggressive and just poach an easily poachable team asap.
If you're the Big 12 go for Houston asap. If you're the Big East throw the kitchen sink at Notre Dame and have some backup plan for trying to grab Georgia Tech or Houston or Southern Miss or something
Hmm, I'm confused. You ask in your last post if a middle of the road SEC team makes more money than a Top Big 12 team, as if to imply A&M would be just another team in the SEC. Then in this post, you make it act like the SEC is running up the walls in horror. Are you implying that you think the A&M could compete with the top SEC teams, after all?
Well I'm a pessimist so you have to look at the whole thing through the eyes of a pessimist from each angle.
If I'm an SEC team I might be thinking "Oh no! A&M might get lots of great Texas recruits making it way harder for me to win".
If I'm A&M I might be thinking "We're just another team as it is right now in the Big 12 where there are only 2 or so other good teams a year. In the SEC we could get crushed"
In reality I think A&M might do well for itself in the SEC, but not be a top 2 team. Maybe not even top 3. Plus if they bring in another team it will be that much harder again.
I'm not sure about the money thing. The thing for A&M is they're probably tired of being Texas' little brother.
since when is Texas A&M a top team in the Big 12? Texas A&M will finish near the bottom of the SEC most years, but it still probably makes more money then it would if it stayed put. Heck Northwestern football makes more money from its tv deal then Notre Dame. There really are only three conferences that matter where money is concerned: the Big Ten, the SEC, and the Pac 12.
The SEC wants the Texas television markets so it can re-negotiate its TV contracts, which will bring all the other schools more money, if Texas A&M was in Louisiana, the SEC wouldn't give two craps about it. Location is everything in this and A&M has the correct location.
Are you 100% sure Northwestern makes more money from tv than Notre Dame? If that were the case I'd think Notre Dame would be in a league.
I don't think I ever said A&M was a top Big 12 team. They definitely line up behind Texas and Oklahoma at the very least. But I definitely think they're a better team in the Big 12 than SEC
Yes. All Big Ten schools make over 20 million a year from the Big Ten Network and ESPN (and the other deals). ND's deal with NBC is like 9 million a year. It gets at best a couple of million from the Big East's basketball contracts. Sure ND gets a full share of its bowl games, but that share is far less then Northwestern's bowl share in every year that ND doesn't make a BCS bowl (which has been awhile).
ND just wants the freedom to remain independent. That may change when the Big East gets raided and is no longer a good landing spot for ND's other sports, but for now ND is content making less money but remaining independent.
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