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“THE SEC DOES NOT NEED ANY OTHER CONFERENCES TO MAKE THE MOST MONEY AND BE THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS”\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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BIG TEN, PAC, ACC…..BEWARE….YOU ARE TEMPTING THE DEVIL!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Word of warning to the member schools of the Big Ten, the ACC, and the PAC.\u00a0 Football drives ALL athletics on the highest level of Intercollegiate play. Forget that and you could be making a gargantuan mistake in any reorganization of your sports affiliations with regard to membership, scheduling, and contracts with such concerns as FOX SPORTS, ESPN, NBC, and CBS. Your conference commissioners will not out maneuver the SEC and it’s leader Greg Sankey.\u00a0 That effort will result in loss of revenue, loss of prestige in the college sports world, and diminished results on the field of play.\u00a0 Sankey is the most informed, competent, and best leader in college sports today.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Money, dollars, cash, what ever you want to call it, is what keeps big time college athletics afloat and pays the bills for the other sports on campus.\u00a0 Even Kansas, the awful Jayhawks out of Lawrence, take in millions as of their football affiliation with the Big 12.\u00a0 Yes, basketball at KU is a money maker, but without the dollars of the football program taken in by being a member of the conference, that school would have issues with all other sports on that campus in paying the bills.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The branding of individual schools is the key for each school in a conference.\u00a0 That branding and association with their conferences is the deciding factor on the amount of money each conference can bring in and divvy up with each school of said conference. (Vanderbilt, you lucky dog, if you were not in the SEC your checks would bounce).\u00a0 The SEC brands include some huge ones such as\u00a0 Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, Kentucky, aTm and now (or very soon), Oklahoma and Texas.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The brand of the SEC is number one, and with the individual greatness\u00a0 of the members of the SEC, a dominance of those 16 schools could absolutely determine how much the other schools (not associated with the SEC) can make in revenue in the next twenty, thirty or more years.\u00a0 Sure, individual brands such as Ohio State, Clemson, and say Michigan are money brands, but any school outside the SEC will see diminished revenue if they disassociate with the SEC.\u00a0 And DO NOT THINK that the SEC is finished with expansion. No, the SEC is NOT stopping with Oklahoma and Texas, in my opinion.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Think most of the viewing public in American gives a hoot with a Washington State football game with Oregon?\u00a0 Only in Oregon and Western Washington state does that game register.\u00a0 But put Oklahoma and Texas in the Cotton Bowl and you have a nation watching.\u00a0 Let LSU play Alabama and you have the fans viewing from Los Angeles to Dallas to Atlanta to Boston.\u00a0 The games of the SEC are significant, each and every week across the country in prime time or in significant afternoon viewing time periods, backed up with ABC and it’s parent company ESPN.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If the three power conferences shuts out the SEC, expect this mega group of schools to stage their own National Championship football playoff, a four team, three game system that WOULD lay claim to any National Championship in football, regardless of what the rest if the conferences did.\u00a0 And if the PAC, ACC, and Big 10 refuse to schedule the SEC, no matter.\u00a0 There are a great number of schools that would schedule an SEC team in a heartbeat.\u00a0 THE SEC DOES NOT NEED ANY OTHER CONFERENCES TO MAKE THE MOST MONEY AND BE THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With that, college football crowns their national champion in a way that is not sponsored by the NCAA.\u00a0 And let us not forget that the road to this “national championship” goes through the Southeastern Conference and nowhere else. That is the current situation and I think it will continue to be that way.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yes ACC, Big Ten, and PAC, you might strategically associate together, but you are playing with fire.\u00a0 Hey, fans of Clemson, you want to give up your games with South Carolina?\u00a0 Georgia Tech, same with your contests with Georgia?\u00a0 Florida State and Florida?\u00a0 Bring it on and find who is on the short end of the $$$$$.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today, the National Championship of college football goes through the SEC, with the current home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.\u00a0 That home could change on any given year to Norman, Athens, Baton Rouge, or even Lexington. Yes, Lexington.\u00a0 Being in the SEC,\u00a0 Wildcat fans realize that they play in a conference that has the most direct pipeline to the NFL for it’s players.\u00a0 You know that being a member of the SEC your football team gets the best players in the country as they want to play in the best league.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The SEC would, in fact, greatly improve, not only with the play on the field but the $$$$ in the bank,\u00a0 if the other Power five conferences said good bye.\u00a0 Keep your academics Big Ten, PAC…..that could be your road to mediocrity in college football….the SEC does not need you to be successful.\u00a0 And PAC members, you have already become an afterthought.\u00a0 USC who?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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