Depending on how things go the next twenty years I could see the day when a Bama or Florida or even a LSU say screw this and go independent, create their own network, and schedule whoever they hell they want especially if OU and Texas start reaching the title game a lot more than a SEC team will by making the conference tougher.

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Posted by Smoke Ring

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Posted on 10/27/11 at 4:37 pm to nicholastiger

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create their own network

nicholastiger,

The SEC is working on an SEC network. When they do accomplish it, all members will assign their media rights over to it for a long period of time. It'll be hard to walk away. Not saying impossible, just very difficult and expensive.

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Posted by Nuts4LSU

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Posted on 10/28/11 at 1:11 pm to nicholastiger

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Depending on how things go the next twenty years I could see the day when a Bama or Florida or even a LSU say screw this and go independent, create their own network, and schedule whoever they hell they want

Independence is an awfully tough path. Many have tried it, but it's only really worked out for one of them, Notre Dame. And even they are starting to get pushed into the conference scene.

To be successful as an independent, you really have to be amazingly consistent in having success on the field, which is tough for anybody, or some other built-in national appeal, such as Notre Dame's Catholic identity. Being in a conference provides security for the lean years that practically every school has from time to time. Virtually every school that has gone independent has found that they prefer the security of a conference.

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