College football has always been defined by its love of tradition and a willingness to live in the past as long as possible. Change was bad; status quo swell....
Greg Sankey the commissioner of the SEC talks to the media before the quaterfinals of the SEC Basketball Tournament at Bridgestone Arena on March 13, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee.College football has always been defined by its love of tradition and a willingness to live in the past as long as possible.; status quo swell. Life didn’t come at you fast, it came in super slo-mo. Hey, national signing day did more to keep the fax machine industry alive than anything else.
It’s beyond two major blue bloods realizing that Texas A&M may have been onto something a decade or so ago. It’s a major shift in conference power. In proof that irony can be pretty ironic, the tradition-shattering move will actually revive long-simmering rivalries.Arkansas-Texas is not far behind on the animosity scale, another reason why the SEC needs three permanent opponents on the schedule. OU-Missouri has old school Big Eight vibes. ESPN will have it all under its new contract.
If that was all, it would be more than enough. The thrill ride may not be over. There’s the Pac-12, still trying to recover from the USC-UCLA gut punch and looking to cobble together a TV deal, is now in the expansion market., along with maybe San Diego State, sound? Speculation got a jolt of reality when Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff showed up at SMU’s basketball game last week, in the worst disguise this side of Inspector Clouseau.
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