FRISCO, Texas – Now that Texas and Oklahoma are headed to the SEC probably as early as 2024, the query everybody ought to be asking is straightforward.
Who’s subsequent?
Probably the most logical reply is staring the league proper within the face, fairly actually.
TCU.
The Horned Frogs give the SEC a agency foothold within the Dallas market and would lock down all 4 of the main TV markets in Texas for good.
Now could be the perfect time to strike. The Horned Frogs are a media darling in soccer and have turn out to be fairly the touchdown pad for elite SEC transfers uninterested in the outdated wait till it is your flip system that’s depriving them of NIL cash and taking part in time in locations like Alabama.
They’re presently a Prime 25 crew in basketball and completed as a Prime 25 baseball crew final spring as nicely.
It is best to nab them whereas all the pieces is rolling down in Ft. Price so an SEC announcement can propel their market worth even increased. Accepting such an invitation would make them high greenback Frogs in TV negotiations.
It will additionally give SEC groups a high quality journey vacation spot. The SEC is thought for lots of issues, however attending to an opponent’s venue is not precisely one among them.
Flying into DFW and making the brief 27-mile drive to TCU’s campus is a dream for SEC groups.
Not solely is it a straightforward journey, it is an awesome journey for followers and recruiting. The stadium is gorgeous and located in an awesome a part of Forth Price.
In case you have a partner who likes to journey, however is not into soccer, she and any youngsters who would possibly wish to tag alongside however not go to the sport can spend a day on the Fort Price Zoo [literally the only zoo experience I have ever enjoyed] or make the brief jaunt to Arlington for a day at Six Flags.
Then you may meet up for dinner in Sundance Sq. and catch a movie on the Coyote Drive-in with the Fort Price skyline immediately behind your film simply throughout the tiny Trinity River.
After all the SEC at all times likes to order its new members in pairs, so that you would possibly as nicely throw in Oklahoma State. Whereas not as simple to get to as TCU, it is a fan base tailor made for the SEC and as enjoyable to get aggravated at because the cowbell ringers in Starkville and the mustard throwers up in Knoxville.
Simply ask Arkansas followers how enjoyable a decent shootout will be with the Cowboys.
Whereas OK State brings solely modest development in viewership, they do deliver high quality in all three main sports activities, plus one different extremely invaluable commodity that it shares with TCU.
Low-cost journey for non-revenue sports activities.
I am going to prevent the time wanting up what number of miles it’s from Gainesville, Florida to Stillwater. It is 1,176 miles and it does not matter. Florida will journey to Stillwater even lower than it already travels to Fayetteville, which has solely occurred twice in practically 20 years in soccer.
The Razorbacks head to The Swamp subsequent season for the second consecutive time within the sequence and should not get a return recreation as soon as all the pieces is shuffled round to accommodate Texas and Oklahoma ought to they arrive a 12 months early.
As for Oklahoma State and TCU, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and even Ole Miss all clock in at round 500 miles or much less. Add in LSU and Mississippi State and also you’re taking a look at eight groups inside roughly 650 miles of each other on the most.
That is good for the underside line whereas making the convention as a complete higher.
Some would possibly suppose it a bit unkind to the Large 12 to steal what would be the newly topped tentpole packages as soon as Oklahoma and Texas are gone, however that convention is already nicely on its approach to changing into “Group of 5” standing.
Does anybody suppose the Large Ten is not going to annex Kansas and Kansas State quickly to assist fill in gaps between the remainder of the convention and Los Angeles?
Penn State is not flying out to L.A. on the common. That is an issue for the Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa to cope with. Slipping in brief rides to Kansas whereas including high quality on the basketball facet is a pleasant approach to clean issues over.
It is borderline unimaginable to think about these two plus Oregon and both Utah or Stanford not getting sucked in at some point.
The 2 tremendous conferences will combat over a handful of different groups, however that is the trail ahead.
The breadcrumbs are fairly simple to observe.
We’re headed towards the SEC and Large Ten following the mildew of the AFC and NFC the place the 2 host their very own playoffs and have the ensuing champions play one another in a school soccer Tremendous Bowl recreation.
The 12-team playoff is simply one other step towards getting individuals used to an thought that can finally result in the most important monetary payoff in all of school sports activities.
There is a good probability that if it will occur, that ball begins rolling this weekend if it hasn’t already.
In any case, you by no means know who SEC commissioner Greg Sankey would possibly “bump” into on the TCU-Georgia nationwide championship recreation.
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