The SEC added two schools to the conference in 2011, when they invited Texas A&M and Missouri from the Big 12 conference. Collegiate athletics is an ever-growing and evolving field of athletes, revenue, and fans. What if the SEC were to add more programs to the conference?
Recently, FanSided’s Texas A&M site, GigEmGazette, led the charge pondering the same possibilities. While we at Truman’s Tales are intrigued by the possibility of SEC expansion, we’re not sure that we are on the same page as our Aggie friends. But who doesn’t love the SEC? I’m a B1G alum, and I love the SEC!
We are taking into consideration that the Big 12 conference as possibly the weakest of the “Power 5” conferences, and it may begin to crumble first. Not that the programs are weaker (insert obligatory Kansas joke here), but conferences like the B1G, SEC, PAC 12, and ACC have weaned the better programs from conferences such as the Big 12, MAC, and the Big East has since dissolved.
As the conferences with more financial power draw larger crowds and begin to add rivalries into their offering, programs that remain within the remaining conferences will have their hand forced to either draw interest into a new conference, or remain on the “outside looking in.”