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Message: [QUOTE="CoastAtlantic, post: 1239819, member: 5174"] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571138336280219649']56m56 minutes ago[/URL] Ive been asked....so I will answer. Yes, I have heard the rumors of the next SEC expansion targets in 2019/20 being Texas & Kansas. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571138824098713600']55m55 minutes ago[/URL] I do not believe Texas has any real interest in ever joining the SEC. However these rumors are from the perspective of the SEC and their... [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571139217457319936']54m54 minutes ago[/URL] ....next expansion targets. I have heard these rumors before and Im not sure why I was sent this question tonight....but yes, this rumor.. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571139729305022466']52m52 minutes ago[/URL] ....is based upon SEC wanting to enlarge their market for SECN but also keep adding AAU to their collective roster. Texas has a different... [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571140374300925952']50m50 minutes ago[/URL] ...market for the SECN then Texas A&M. You also have LHN being owned by Disney/ESPN....Kansas 3rd tier deal with ESPN. There is a thought... [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571141275480662017']47m47 minutes ago[/URL] ....that ESPN could hammer out an agreement with Texas on their LHN. SECN will be sending out bigger checks than LHN in 2020. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571141898552918016']45m45 minutes ago[/URL] Why Kansas and not Oklahoma? According to this rumor its because Kansas is a ESPN product( more than OU) KU is AAU...much like Texas A&M/MIZ [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] @flugempire[/URL] · [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571142405271003137']43m43 minutes ago[/URL] And there is also the thought that Kansas politically can free itself from Kansas St much easier than OU from Okst. This rumor has been... [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] ....around for a few years. Its pretty much based on the idea ESPN and SEC wanting to gain a bigger market with ESPN already Established 3rd [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] ...tier schools. Would Texas ever move to the SEC? I dont think so. It would be nice to see Kansas/Mizzou play again in conference :) [URL='https://twitter.com/Expansion_Crush'][B]Expansion Crush[/B] ‏@[B]Expansion_Crush[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/Expansion_Crush/status/571138861801312256']1h1 hour ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] I thought that the SEC already reached our to Texas and Texas said thanks, but no thanks. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/Expansion_Crush']@[B]Expansion_Crush[/B][/URL] I dont ever think Texax has ever been close to being interested in joining SEC. But this is about SEC targeting in 2019/20 [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo'][B]Seanbo Sengo[/B] ‏@[B]SeanboSengo[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo/status/571145984362856448']33m33 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/Expansion_Crush']@[B]Expansion_Crush[/B][/URL] BTN & the SEC networks are game changers that the other conferences will not be able to compete with. [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo'][B]Seanbo Sengo[/B] ‏@[B]SeanboSengo[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo/status/571146576929935360']30m30 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/Expansion_Crush']@[B]Expansion_Crush[/B][/URL] very soon it will be the B1G/SEC, the little 3 and the even smaller group of 5 [URL='https://twitter.com/tech_aj'][B]AJ Tech[/B] ‏@[B]tech_aj[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/tech_aj/status/571140160345268224']58m58 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] add two teams out west to essentially recreate the B12/SWC allows Bama and Auburn to slide to East, solving the UT/Bama issue. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/tech_aj']@[B]tech_aj[/B][/URL] Yes. Mizzou goes West with Kansas/Texas/Texas A&M. Ala/Au go east [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo'][B]Seanbo Sengo[/B] ‏@[B]SeanboSengo[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo/status/571142980901343232']48m48 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] What would Kansas like more, SEC or B1G? I would think B1G. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL] What is interesting about this scenario...KU will only be brought into SEC/B1G with anothet school that can provide huge [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B]‏@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL]. ..eyeballs for the conference network. This maybe Kansas best scenario to leave Big 12 if economics pushes them out the door [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo'][B]Seanbo Sengo[/B] ‏@[B]SeanboSengo[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo/status/571148036740673536']28m28 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] I know KU is AAU but I think Oklahoma's population is about a million more than Kansas and once again [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo'][B]Seanbo Sengo[/B] ‏@[B]SeanboSengo[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo/status/571148495136165888']27m27 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire']@[B]flugempire[/B][/URL] if the SEC can break the B12 GOR, why not the ACC's. NC is AAU & has about 10 million in pop. UVa is AAU and has about 8 million [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] ‏@[B]flugempire[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571154227772452864']4m4 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL] Sure...and OU FB is more valuable than KU BB. What is a bit interesting is how ESPN went aggressively to latch UT an KU to ESPN [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] ‏@[B]flugempire[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571154621567262721']2m2 minutes ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL] ESPN stopped any possible Texas movement to PAC/B1G years ago with LHN deal...and moved quickly on KU. So from that standpoint [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] ‏@[B]flugempire[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571154872134983680']1m1 minute ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL] This rumor works in the ESPN perspective of first latching these 2 universities...and the later moving them to SECN. [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire'][B]Greg Flugaur[/B] ‏@[B]flugempire[/B] [/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/flugempire/status/571155299580706816']4s4 seconds ago[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/SeanboSengo']@[B]SeanboSengo[/B][/URL] Just don't see Texas in the SEC...but I don't see Texas in Big Ten or in a horse n buggy Big 12 in 2020. ME: Where, oh where, would Texas go? :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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