EJ responds RE: SMU in talks with SEC

[max the wonder dog]

A couple of reasons not to discount the report out-of-hand:

SEC trails the Big 10, ACC, PAC #?, in TV markets. Atlanta is the only Top 10 (#9) market in the conference, Nashville is next at 30, followed by Birmingham at 40. aTm will help, but so would SMU.

Turner used to be an SEC President, so he's not a stranger to conference politics.

[SMUstang07]

I just posted the tweet to the main rivals message boards. Trying to blow this thing outta proportion

[Nacho]

i predicted smu to the sec years ago. the frogs laughed at me. well we'll see who's laughing now frogs.

[smupony94]

I want EJ and Armen to get me the Rivals app they promised me. We have a bye week and nothing else is going on so this is a perfect time to get it done

[goldenstang]

One reason this might not happen is that auburn would have to move east and bama would have to give up a permanent crossover. Same con was thrown at mizzou

Yeah Bama would have to give up its annual game with Tennessee and they don't want to do that especially for a game in Columbia, MO every other year but a game in Dallas, TX every other year....

[Hoop Fan]

i know some of you don't want to hear this, but we may have to play a couple games at the cotton bowl in exchange for getting full support from the city of Dallas. Expand Ford to 45,000 and play Ole Miss, MSU, Florida, Georgia, Vandy at Ford. When Bama, A&M, Auburn or Arkansas come, we play them at the Cotton Bowl during the Fair. Its called a win-win and could make for a great proposal to Dallas and the SEC.

[goldenstang]

i know some of you don't want to hear this, but we may have to play a couple games at the cotton bowl in exchange for getting full support from the city of Dallas. Expand Ford to 45,000 and play Ole Miss, MSU, Florida, Georgia, Vandy at Ford. When Bama, A&M, Auburn or Arkansas come, we play them at the Cotton Bowl during the Fair. Its called a win-win and could make for a great proposal to Dallas and the SEC.

I wouldn't care if we had to play games on the Moon without oxygen.

[SMU 46]

A couple of reasons not to discount the report out-of-hand:

SEC trails the Big 10, ACC, PAC #?, in TV markets. Atlanta is the only Top 10 (#9) market in the conference, Nashville is next at 30, followed by Birmingham at 40. aTm will help, but so would SMU.

Turner used to be an SEC President, so he's not a stranger to conference politics.

This probably has been posted before, but with aTm the SEC has nearly as many "viewers" as the B1G according to this NYT blog. They have the viewers, but they can also benefit from a DFW TV markets.

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+nyt/rss/Sports+%28NYT+%3E+Sports%29&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimessports

The S.E.C. has few large media markets — Atlanta’s Georgia Tech is in the A.C.C., as is the University of Miami. But if it adds Texas A&M, it will be up to 15.6 million fans total, just barely behind the Big Ten (17.5 million). The enthusiasm for college football in the Southeast and a lot of mid-sized markets with decent population growth adds up to a very valuable brand — as, of course, does the exceptional quality of the product on the field.

Still, the S.E.C.’s average of about 1.1 million fans per team — not counting Texas A&M — sets a slightly lower bar than the Big Ten’s. Clemson (1.8 million fans), Georgia Tech (1.7 million) or Virginia Tech would improve upon it, while Missouri and West Virginia (1.0 million) are aren’t far from the league average and would do more to expand the conference’s geographic footprint.

[RGV Pony]

Were gonna need a bigger band

[smusic 00]

That would be fantastic, IMHO.

[NY Pony]

That beautiful 50-50 split that the OU/Texas game gets, which looks awesome on TV, would be a 95-5% split at an SMU game. But who cares, poll voters love "neutral site" wins. Might take a decade or two to start getting them...

I would offer up two first borns for this.

I'm considering consulting voodoo experts already and am on a steady diet of grass for this, might help get LSU's vote.

[Stallion]

we're going to need some State Troopers

[Pony ^]

Sec sec sec sec sec sec sec please

[CalallenStang]

I would offer up two first borns for this.

trying to figure out how this would work

[CalallenStang]

we're going to need some State Troopers

also will need to protect the trees on the 'Vard