sports.yahoo.com/latest-conference-realignment-rumor-states-123925223.html
The article is fairly short, so I will leave it up to you to click the link to read, or find another source reporting the same information...In a nutshell, IF this rumor is true (I am not convinced) the SEC hasn't just been in contact with Texas and Oklahoma, but has also been trying to gauge the interest of forming a super conference with Clemson, Florida State, Michigan and Ohio State as well. The idea of a super conference is something that players of NCAA Football video games have toyed with in every version of the game that allowed you to create custom conferences, and it has been theorized as being possible...one day...but always well off into the future. This would indicate that the SEC deems it to be well into the future, right now. However, as a Michigan fan, and that of the Big Ten in general, I can see both Michigan and Ohio State taking the phone call, to at least see what the SEC has to offer, but ultimately? No way in hell they ditch the Big Ten for the SEC. 1. Michigan and Ohio State don't consider themselves to be simply members of the Big Ten. They consider themselves to be the pillars of it. The Big Ten is THEIR conference. There are other schools that get to play there, but they built the playground. Their attitude would be the hell with the SEC, if we wanted to join a super-conference, we would make one ourselves in the Big Ten... 2. Money. Financially, Michigan and Ohio State are better off simply staying where they are. Michigan and Ohio State are both in the top 5 in terms of sports revenue already, and the Big Ten Network pays member schools more than the SEC Network does. The Big Ten is not only the oldest collegiate athletic conference in America, it's also the wealthiest. 3. Big fish. Even with Michigan's football struggles, they are still arguably one of the top two "brands" in the Big Ten, along with Ohio State. This kind of goes back to point #1, but Michigan and Ohio State have enjoyed their status as the centerpiece universities of Big Ten athletics for over 50 years. Why the hell would they ever give that up? 4. Travel. Geographically, joining the SEC makes no sense at all. It's called the South Eastern Conference. Michigan and Ohio State play in the northern midwest. Why would they join a conference that forces them to quadruple their travel expenses? They are college players still, who have classes to go to...it wouldn't matter if they were professional athletes, whose only job was to play sports, but they can't miss that much class time, as an every week conference schedule would demand. Ultimately, they are like businesses. They will listen to the pitch, and then once the phone call has ended, laugh their asses off, because they are worth more as the cornerstones of the Big Ten, than they would ever be as members of the SEC. Instead, they are going to take the SEC's pitch, and turn it into a reason why teams should want to join the Big Ten. If there is going to be a super conference, Michigan and Ohio State will do what they can to be at the center of it, not the peripheral. Rumors are fun, but in my opinion, there is no way in hell that Michigan or Ohio State would ever jump ship to the SEC.
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