Conference Realignment Isn’t Evil… It’s Evolution
“Dear Texas A&M: Don’t complain about being inconvenienced by Baylor. Blowing up all of college sports is inconvenient for about 100 schools.” — Dan Wolken of The Daily “The only [...]
View ArticleOpening The Vaults: How The SEC Pursued FSU 20 Years Ago
Yesterday, in discussing the news that Florida State had formed a committee to study conference expansion and realignment — and had announced the formation of that committee — we mentioned [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 1: Grading Potential SEC Partners
Admit it. You’re as tired of reading about conference expansion and realignment as we are of writing about it. It’s a confusing topic. Half the sports fans and media members [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 2: Television Markets
In Part 2 of our series on SEC expansion, we begin to break down the numbers for 35 different schools. The schools we’ve included (and, no, not all of these [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 3: Total State Population
In Part 3 of our SEC expansion series, we wanted to look total population. In addition to television households — which we looked at in Part 2 — leagues are [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 4: Proximity
In the current wave of expansion, geography doesn’t seem to matter much. In recent years we’ve seen Notre Dame join the Big East in all sports but football. The Irish [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 5: Fertile Recruiting Ground
When the great expansion race of 2011 is fully run, we expect that many, many factors will have played a role in who went where: television households, population, athletic prowess, [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 6: Athletic Budgets
Money equals facilities. Facilities equal recruiting. More money equals better facilities. Better facilities equal better recruiting. When it comes to college athletics — especially college football...
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 7: Football Stadium Size
When it comes to the Southeastern Conference, football is king. Oh, sure, when the league is looking at potential expansion partners basketball and Olympic sports matter on some (much smaller) [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 8: Athletic Success
Media markets and budgets. Facilities and population base. Recruiting ground and geographic location. All will have some bearing on the conference expansion/realignment process that continues to...
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 9: Academic Fit
As we enter the homestretch of our numbers-specific look at SEC expansion, it might be a good time to look back at what we’ve done so far. For starters, you [...]
View ArticleExpansion By The Numbers 10: The Big Finish
From the beginning of our 10-part series on SEC expansion candidates, we’ve tried to make it clear that: * The generic lessons of our “formula” are more important than [...]
View ArticleSEC Realignment And Schedule Options – Part One
Today might just be the day that Missouri makes its desire to join the SEC official. Or not. It seems we’ve been down this road a few dozen times with [...]
View ArticleSEC Realignment And Schedule Options – Part Two
In the South, we tend to take our history and traditions a bit more seriously than folks in other parts of the country. When it comes to our football, that [...]
View ArticleSEC Realignment And Schedule Options – Part Three
When the SEC finally welcomes in a 14th member — and like everyone else we fully expect that 14th school to be Missouri — the league will face the incredibly [...]
View ArticleIn The SEC, Turnovers Mean Everything: 2007-2011 Numbers Show The Value Of...
When it comes to Southeastern Conference football, you can toss just about every stat out the window save one — turnovers. Sure there are nuggets to be found here and [...]
View ArticleEven With A&M And Mizzou, SEC Is Still A “Regional” League
With Texas A&M and Missouri now officially ticketed for the SEC (hopefully for 2012), a familiar email is finding its way anew into the MrSEC.com inbox: “The SEC is no [...]
View ArticleTexas A&M, Missouri (And Fans And Media) Need To Learn That No One Stays On...
When the SEC split into divisions in 1992, one of the reasons Auburn was placed in the West rather than in the geographically-appropriate East was a desire to maintain competitive [...]
View ArticleSEC Stat Analysis: Quick Strike Offense (Final)
With the 2011 regular season in the rear view — how hard is that to believe — we wanted to look back at some of our favorite stats to see [...]
View ArticleSEC Stat Analysis: Quick Sand Defense (Final)
Earlier this morning we posted the first in a series of year-end stat analysis pieces. Our look at Quick Strike Offenses can be found here. Now we go in the [...]
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