re: 4 16 team Super Conferences forming to break away from NCAA

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Not if the SEC takes OU first. They have been more receptive to expansion/superconferences than the Pac-12

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You have no idea what you're talking about at any point in this thread.

First of all, OU said they won't come to the SEC. Period. Not happening. They'll stick with Texas, OSU, and TT and patch together scrubs instead if they have to. If Texas goes Indy (looking less likely), they'll take OSU and go west. The PAC knows this, which brings me to my next point--

New Mexico, Nevada, Hawaii, and TTech do not bring more revenue to the table than they would be taking out, especially the first two. Let me put it this way--do you think anybody would pay those schools 20 mill per year for TV rights as independents? Do you think adding those schools to the conference will make the television partners want to add 80 mill per year to a deal that is currently 225 mill per year? Are rights to those schools worth 1/3rd the value of the PAC's current rights? Schools like Oklahoma add that much, and considering they don't want to go to the SEC and the Big 12 is dying, you can bet the PAC will hold a spot for them and whatever little brothers they bring with them, rather than giving those spots to Hawaii, Nevada, and fricking New Mexico.

You're assuming there's some imperative to grow just to be a bigger conference. No such imperative exists. The growth has to 1) add revenue, 2) involve taking a team that is your best choice and sometimes 3) may not be available later. Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii, and TTech fulfill none of those. More so the first 3.