“So, I’m not trying to be a smart-aleck guy, but we ARE a superleague,” Sankey said.
He also offered the league leadership’s contentment with SEC’s current configuration consisting “like-minded institutions located in contiguous states.”
Gee, I wonder who’s that directed against.
Ah, college football — when it’s not about the money, it’s about a dick measuring contest.
Get The Picture 
Those cross country conferences are stupid. Hell, Missouri’s a stretch.
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Yet still contiguous with 3 of the SEC states, and soon to be 4. That ends my geography lesson for today.
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Chef’s kiss for that tag line… not literally, though.
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All dock measuring aside, he is right about the SEC expanding smartly and not just for the hell of it. Regardless of whether you think those common elements will keep a conference together, they create better atmospheres on game day, meaning a better product to televise.
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Missouri sure seemed like a just for the hell of it add back in 2012.
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Missouri vs West Virginia
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KC market played strongly into the situation.
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Contigous & growing- A commercial real estate enterprise biting of more & more residential properties. A large property creep. Some don’t like it, but cant blame each homeowner that sells out for tge almighty Benjamin. In this case, ND could become the new “anchor tenant” for the B12.
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Don’t they call the “lower 48” the “contiguous” United States? So as long as a program is anywhere in the “lower 48” it’s contiguous! amirite????
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So, the Rainbow Warriors are screwed then.
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Massive egos back stabbing and fighting for billions of dollars. If it wasn’t something I loved being torn apart it would be entertaining.
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With USC and UCLA joining the Big 10 (11, 12, 16, 18 whatever the hell they are) there are NO natural rivalries to generate excitement. At least with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma you reestablish some old rivalries from the old BIG 8 and SWC days with TAMU, Arkansas, Missouri. Not anything to excite us in the eastern side of the conference, but a hell of a lot better than adding teams that are totally geographically detached from the conference and with no real history with any current members.
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One of the best things about the USC/UCLA jump to the Big 10 is it actually makes our additions of Mizzou, TAMU, Texas and OU look more rational by comparison.
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Something that may factor in, I dunno if it will but MAY… is the fact that LA is so metropolitan. A whole lot of B1G fans live here – I’d venture to guess, more than PAC12 fans of other schools. Now, that’s a guess… but B1G country sucks, so people leave in droves to come to Sunny SoCal (I see it every time the NFC North fans outnumber us at RAMS games).
What is the richest tradition of the SEC? It’s telling that piss-gargling neighbor of yours that “Auburn Sucks” every time you see him trimming the dead tops off his hydrangeas. It’s pulling a chair out from under Bama Fan in the cafeteria, so you can watch the tide roll.
Effectively, what USC and UCLA have done, is introduced the same neighborly hatred to Los Angeles that we’ve always enjoyed down south. UCLA fans don’t hate their Arizona neighbors. How could they? The Wildcats are frequently garbage and Arizona folks don’t pop off unless there’s an election snafu. But that holier-than-thou Suckeyes fan with the obnoxious preteen across the street who keeps egging the house? Screw that guy. Nothing would make that Bruin happier than plastering a few copies of the sports page on his neighbor’s windshield with some unborn chickens of his own.
What’s it gonna do for folks IN B1G country? I can’t say..
Maybe give ‘em some exposure to the sun a couple times a year. Vitamin D as a plus.
Go Dawgs,
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The entry of a fully cherry-picked SWC/Big 8 members to our league is why I think it would be INSANE for them to do anything other than the 3-6 scheduling model. Think about how well they could “win the press conference” when/if they announce settlement on 3-6. “Yea, we expanded too, but in doing so we’re also going back to some of our roots, maybe even righting some wrongs ……Arkansas vs Texas, renewing A&M v Texas, hell Mizzou and OU played 95 times between 1910 and 2011. Those are almost Auburn-Georgia like numbers. Over this way, you have Auburn-Florida returning to twice in 4 years.
Our new western wing may be why they have to go 3-6 more than anything. As a Georgia fan, sure I’m not directly affected, but if we’re gonna get roped into the shitshow, at least let the shitshow give a nod to the old fashioned even if its not our historical lineage.
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Sankey’s Secret Service code name? Richard Long.
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