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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4015658, member: 833"] Every league makes the same mistake in expansion. They decide they are not in imminent danger, so doing nothing seems like a reasonable solution if they can't get the big dog. Then another couple of years pass, and whatever the original problem that made expansion seem like a good idea in the first place (usually over dependence on a single alpha dog member or not enough market reach) come back to bite the league in the butt. So here the Pac 12, Big 10 and ACC are, clearly subordinate to the SEC, and they are having sadzzz because they didn't get Texas and Oklahoma. And there is a good chance that they do nothing. Any business in the same situation as those three leagues would try to get bigger immediately through acquisition, but not athletic conferences. They have a model that shows that whatever is happening now will continue to infinity, so they don't need to do anything. Until they get raided. [/QUOTE]