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[Mountainman]

Oh Goodie!!!!!!! Another Clown Show!!!!!

I wonder who will ‘Take My Ball and Go Home’ this time around…….


https://www.si.com/college/2022/02/14/c ... arly-march


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[Spence]

It seems to me that for right now the SEC holds most of the cards. They B1G holds a few, nobody else has any. They only way the conferences can flip the script is to have an all or none approach to in season scheduling an playoffs. If the ACC, B12, B1G and PAC 12 decide to do it a certain way and they won't schedule with the SEC at all unless they agree, that reduces the SEC's leverage. Of course right now the SEC isn't really standing in the way. It is the other group not being able to stand as a group. It will be interesting to see what happens.

[Cane from the Bend]

It seems to me that for right now the SEC holds most of the cards. They B1G holds a few, nobody else has any. They only way the conferences can flip the script is to have an all or none approach to in season scheduling an playoffs. If the ACC, B12, B1G and PAC 12 decide to do it a certain way and they won't schedule with the SEC at all unless they agree, that reduces the SEC's leverage. Of course right now the SEC isn't really standing in the way. It is the other group not being able to stand as a group. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Though the SEC did threaten legal action against the other conferences over their agreement not to play vs them, claiming anti-trust.

The response was, "This does not fall on anti-trust, because we have a verbal agreement without a contract."

We'll see if this actually comes to pass. I'm just not confident that the other Power5 really meant it, or if it was merely posturing in the moment.

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[Mountainman]

It seems to me that for right now the SEC holds most of the cards. They B1G holds a few, nobody else has any. They only way the conferences can flip the script is to have an all or none approach to in season scheduling an playoffs. If the ACC, B12, B1G and PAC 12 decide to do it a certain way and they won't schedule with the SEC at all unless they agree, that reduces the SEC's leverage. Of course right now the SEC isn't really standing in the way. It is the other group not being able to stand as a group. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Though the SEC did threaten legal action against the other conferences over their agreement not to play vs them, claiming anti-trust.

The response was, "This does not fall on anti-trust, because we have a verbal agreement without a contract."




We'll see if this actually comes to pass. I'm just not confident that the other Power5 really meant it, or if it was merely posturing in the moment.

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Sankey does like to throw his weight around……… after the last CFP meeting where playoff expansion failed and a PAC12, ACC, BigTen ‘Alliance’ emerged he made a statement expressing his patience had a limit. Whatever that meant…….


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