What if its a race between Va Tech, Miami and FSU to be the 14th team?

Chicken, with all due respect, it ain't gonna happen. Carry on with the speculation though.

can't imagine miami is anywhere on the sec's radar.

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I still think it's West Virginia.

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agreed

I mentioned Clemson. The big negative is a lack of TV/regional expansion (assuming that's a goal). The ACC just made it clear that there are $20m reasons why nobody is leaving though. We're going to have to look elsewhere.

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The ACC just made it clear that there are $20m reasons why nobody is leaving though. We're going to have to look elsewhere.

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with FSU's president leading the charge.

Miami is very risky. I think that there is a decent chance that they self-sanction themselves out of big time football for a decade or more. There were reports even before the latest scandal that Shalala wanted to demphasize football.

FSU and VT would be great gets for the SEC, but it's not looking likely at this point. Maybe things will look different tomorrow.

VT one thousand times before FSU and FSU one thousand times before Miami.

Man, I'd love to have FSU. We used to play them a lot, and I really want them back on our schedule. If they're gonna get all this hype and get consistently voted into the top 10/15, we should at least make them earn it by putting them through an SEC schedule every year instead of letting them cakewalk through the ACC. And Tallahassee's not a bad drive from Auburn, and I've got family down there that are FSU fans, so I'd like to be able to play them every once in a while and talk smack about it

Plus, I feel like FSU would get the most national viewership out of the three, especially with how ESPN was riding them before the OU game. People all over the country are going to tune in to FSU games because they're doing so well right now and people are starting to think that they're "back".

VT's having a good run right now, but - and correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't really know much about them - they don't really have much of a history to back it up. And that just makes it less interesting for people to watch nationally because they aren't viewed as a perennial powerhouse.

And Miami has the opposite problem. Great history, but sucking it up pretty badly right now.

I think the teams the SEC might take are:

Mizzou
WVU
TCU
Lousiville


MAYBE Oklahoma and Ok St. I think they would have to be a package deal.

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The location of Morgantown just isn't jiving with me...I would prefer to stick with teams further south...

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Me too - it's also why I'm against any remaining Big XII teams. I'd take Texas, but even Austin is pushing it geographically for me. Missouri? Might as well at Oregon while we're at it. :)