[re_nortex]

Word here in the south is that the SEC is preparing to counter the Pac-10 with an offer to the 4 Texas schools - Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor.

That I'd like to see more than the 16-Pack [sic]. Add OU and OSU to that list and the SEC would indeed be mighty.

[commish]

Agree on OU and OSU, but the SEC is loath to go to 18 teams from what TV and radio says. They really do not want to expand to 16 but will to match the other conference moves.

The Texas offer is an attempt to be more appealing to not just the schools but the state legislature by offering all 4 teams. Unfortunately that made OU and OSU odd-men out as the SEC would have to drop 2 teams to accomodate them and stay at 16, and there is no way they will do that — although there are blog rumors that if they can get all 6 they will ‘offer’ the ACC South Carolina and Kentucky.

[Moose4]

I’d love to see the SEC go after the Texas schools. If they wanted Oklahoma/OSU, though, they’d have to drop two other schools to stay at 16 teams. To me it’d make more sense to have South Carolina in the ACC where they’d be more competitive, but they like being in the SEC and I don’t think the ACC’d want them back anyway.

Texas et al would make more sense in the SEC than in the Pac-10, I think.

}:-)4