POLL: What Team Would Be Best For An Expanded SEC?

Now taking bets on which fan base will send us an ignorant troll because of this troll.

A one team expansion makes no sense. If it’s two teams, I’d say the ‘Horns and A&M. If it’s four teams, add in Ga Tech and Clemson. No other program really makes sense to me. Maybe FSU, but I’m still waiting to see if Fisher gets the ship in order. I’d also be against UVA and VT, but I don’t think those blue-blooded Virginians would want to slum it with us hillbilly Southerners.

You can’t just make it one team to vote for (but I understand the poll might not allow multiple votes), but given what it is I voted for Tech.

Ja, Texas is the sexy pick, but I’m looking at the tradition of the SEC (Southern) conference for this, and the fact that we sing “Yea, Alabama” and there is a small announcement about how we should be treating the ones who quit and ran away in a huff for whatever childish reasons they had at the time former member who did have their run in the day in the SEC. Since we just gave a refresher on “remember[ing] the Rose Bowl” what better way to continue the wisdom and divine providence of those sacred lyrics.

Seriously I’d rather we pursue aTm and Texas before we look to the ACC schools given the weak state of ACC football programs impact Texas can bring and the way they could help strengthen the conference and all but ensure the SEC champion is a lock for the BCSCG. But you can’t blame anyone for a little bit of nostalgia.

The Big Ten is doing it mostly to gain a bigger footprint for the network. I laughed when I heard about the BTEN network but it has proved to be a cash cow. They would also get the benefit of a championship game. For the SEC to keep up we would need to also grow in new markets. We have Georgia, I think they would fight adding tech. It would also not expand the base of the SEC any. The same can be said of Florida not wanting Miami. So Car negates any growth by adding Clemson ( cue the its Auburn with a lake joke). Tulane is not going to do anything but lead to about 80,00 hangovers in New Orleans. So I think to grow we would have to go out west. That’s a bit of a pickle as well, it you add Texas and A&M would that not lead to a realignment of the divisions? I also think that adding those teams would almost make the conference to strong. Its hard enough to navigate the SEC right now. If you add Texas and A&M that’s just brutal. Adding those teams I believe would give us some wiggle room with ESPN to renegotiate and get closer to Big Ten money. I know there are people about 2000 times smarter then me working on this. I just have no idea which way it will go. I voted by which team I like the best so I went with OK because of the great time I had with there fans and I always sort of think of them as Alabama west.

I had to vote GT. After all, “Send the yellow jackets to a watery grave” is part of our theme song. Might as well play them a little more often and give our fight song a little more meaning.

That, or we could change the fight song: “Send the texas longhorns to a watery grave,” but no one likes messing with tradition.

Seriously!!! As an FSU fan I know Texas is a huge school with deep pockets would add even more killer ratings AND expand the SEC footprint to a new state. No other school on the list is even close to hitting all three of those areas.

when you guys keep singing about us after every touchdown.

Furman Bisher, a very nice man I met outside Bobby Dodd Stadium in November, will just have to get over it.

robbing the acc of talent, with clemson being my first choice, from a purely functionality standpoint. however, as a bama fan living in texas, it sure would be nice to have bama travel this way once or twice a year.

…is a good fit at all. Sure they’re great, but they don’t feel SEC to me. My top 3 would be Georgia Tech, Clemson and Florida State.

FSU vote by default.

Although my heart screams for “other” with the Troy Trojans.

Several posts are basaed on selecting the best fit. For that, I’d argue that GT and Clemson would be indisputably the best fits. I’d even add West Va. over VT as an option.
But…
Which team would be best for an expanded SEC?
I voted for Texas. They offer more in terms of money, recruiting talent, and winning tradition.
Also, a vote for Texas is a vote for Texas A&M, which only adds to the attraction.
—Lee

is outfitted by Riddell. That’s enough to earn my veto…

Texas and VT are the ones I would like to see receive an invite first. A total eastern or western expansion wouldn’t bother me — Clemson/VT/UNC/Duke or UT/aTm/Okie/Okie State would be a great fit for a 16 member conference. Although I think it would be best if there were no “super” conferences, but if we go that way then all BCS conferences should be restructured and go the route of “super.”

…needs the Green Wave! They’re former members of the conference. We would party in New Orleans every other year. They would become a more viable threat to LSU. Their presence could further our recruiting efforts in the state of Louisiana. They wear green. They would bolster our academic reputation. The SECW needs its own Vanderbilt to push around. They have a stadium large enough for our fanbase. Let’s drink to Tulane.

Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Report-Pac-10-to-strike-first-with-blockbuster-?urn=ncaaf,245537

and that would make nebraska and missouri ripe for the picking by the big ten. the sec would have to raid the ACC for survival’s sake.

and yes, i know I am free to point my browser elsewhere and get a full refund…

…what is to keep a crazy combo of TCU and A&M from the west? That would give a decent hold of Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston for an expansion of markets. I think I heard somewhere today (drove about 400 miles, forgive me if I don’t remember the program) that Slive said something along the lines that the markets the SEC has is good enough, but that has to be a smokescreen. There is no reason to expand without some type of expansion of eyes on the conference. The Texas scenario is the only way I see to give more eyes to the SEC.

If Slive is speaking straight then it looks like it would be a FSU/UM and/or Tech/Clemson/? type of move. I don’t necessarily agree that the move to the Florida school isn’t an expansion of eyes on sets, as the conference could work to schedule the games for UF/FSU/UM to be at different times, thus giving 100% of Florida (in theory) in view of the SEC from dawn to dark on Saturdays. But the addition of the Tech/Clemson scenario is a marginal increase of eyes, if even that.