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But the schools we are talking bout do have the boosters for the money. That includes Maryland.

20 mil is not a lot. Not for a major university. They will find a way. A&m is paying over 20 mil to leave. They don't pay their players. Where does that revenue go? Don't forget about boosters. Stop saying the buyout is a hurdle. It is not.

The SEC's actions are about controlling the narrative (namely, we aren't evil raiders who blew everything up for fun and profit). And avoiding a decade in the courtroom with Ken Starr. The Gentleman's Agreement is fine for #13 and #14, but Silve can legitimately say all bets are off for #15 and #16 and what's best for the league trumps parochial concerns.

Maybe the hold up was waiting for the ACC replacements. The first move was the ACC expansion with several meetings scheduled the following day. You know, we are leaving but we will be respectful type deal.

I think the ACC getting Pitt and Syracuse shows that they are more committed to basketball. FSU's bread & butter is football. They need to go to the SEC. I am hoping that Pitt and Syracuse are replacements for FSU and another ACC to the SEC school. 20 mil is not a lot of money to major programs. More like a NFL pay-roll. Maybe they approved the hike as a thank you to the ACC. Hopefully they were waiting on replacements before they left out of respect. My hope, But I know better.

Wonder who will be the 14th. The rumor mill should be pumpin in the coming weeks.

The Palm Beach Post is reporting that FSU and the SEC has been talking for months. They also are saying that they will expand to 14 teams then 16 teams in later year(s). Texas A&M and FSU will be the first two. We will see.

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The SEC has long been a proactive conference, and I generally don't question their methods because their decisions tend to work our far more often than not, but....

I'm not so sure what they're accomplishing by adding these particular four schools. No offense to Texas A&M, Missouri, Clemson, and Florida State.....but these are schools you expand with only as a reactionary case instead of persuing first, especially when you have bigger financial fish that can be (and most likely willingly wanting to be) caught, namely the two Oklahoma schools. I'll certainly give that FSU and Clemson are the most SEC-like schools in the ACC, and would probably be natural fits for the SEC.

The SEC has been rather silent the past couple weeks and especially silent in regards to expansion talk, so that does lead me to believe that something's going down. And Mike Slive does consider himself a "recovering lawyer", so you have to believe that he's got multiple plans up his sleeve.

The only reason I can think of that the SEC wouldn't be persuing Oklahoma and/or Oklahoma State is that the SEC is having backdoor, secret conversations with the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences about expansion, and that they're making agreements about which schools they're going to persue for expansion.

Assuming the SEC does add these four schools, it's only a matter of time before the Pac-12 and Big Ten become 16-school conferences as well. The Big XII likely folds up shop, the ACC goes back to being an 8-10 school conference, and the Big East splits off into two conferences, with the newly-created conference being a basketball-only conference.

At SEC Media Days, Slive did say, "I can get to 16 (teams) in 15 minutes."

Here is also an issue, only four teams can play in that prime CBS 3:30 slot and secondary ESPN/ESPN2 Saturday night slot. How many times a year will aTm, Clemson or any new team will actually play in those two slots?

I wonder if CBS will add a night game. FSU will see their share of time.

If A&M goes to the SEC, then OU, Ok St, and TT go to the Pac-12, who's going to be the Pac-12's 16th team? I was thinking about it, and UNLV would make a whole heck of a lot of sense.

BYU might not be a bad idea. I grew up Mormon. They love their Cougar football. No matter where they live.

Fries and Gravy are more Canadian than anything, I think. I tried ordering it once in the states and got fries with sausage gravy all over them.

Poutine is Fries and gravy and cheese curds, but some places like to kick it up some. I'm barbecuing profusely overnight, and will likely make some with a :censored:ton of pulled pork or brisket on it.

This is why I'm fat.

I dont blame you. I may not be fat but that post gave me a chubby.

How well are the Aeros supported? Always thought Houston should had been one of the first southern franchises of the southern migration.

Even though there has been no talk about it, I wonder if the SEC has/will talk to any Big 12 schools. I think Texas A&M could be persuadable. Going to the SEC while Texas goes to the Pac 10 would be a great way for Texas A&M to lose the little brother stigma. Who knows, maybe they could snag Oklahoma. I am having a ball with this.

That Pac-10 article was exciting to read. Playoffs are slowly developing, people. It will be a long and weird journey, but I think it will be fun. Ten years from now I think the college football landscape will be very different. Maybe the champs of the four power conferences will battle it out in a playoff. Of course this would be after four conference championship games. I could be way wrong but I wouldn't mind if it turned out this way.

It's looks good so far.

The Sailboat?