Roy Kramer Talks About College Conferences Expanding

Interesting article from Gene Wojciechowski about Roy Kramer and his views on college football realignment.

You can read it here.

IMO, I think the SEC needs to expand to keep up with the Big 10, 11, 12, etc. and Pac 10, 11, etc. The SEC is definitely the dominate coference, right now, but if we do not continue to follow other trends in college athletics, such as expanding, then we will surely be surpassed by these ever-growing conferences. There have been multiple names thrown out for the possible SEC expansion in the near future, for example Va. Tech, North Carolina, Miami, Ga. Tech, W. Va, Clemson, Texas, aTm, Florida St., etc.

Of course, there are reservations with some of these teams, if not all of them, such as word that if we invite North Carolina then we would likely need to invite all other major schools in North Carolina, similar to the Texas, aTm situation. Honestly, I think Mike Slive will be reactive to all of this and strategic to which teams we invite in, be it football powerhouses with big television markets or mediocre football teams that are rich with basketball tradition that, again, have large television markets. Either way, Slive said he wanted to expand the SEC footprint to other areas which are not traditionally big SEC markets. I think with the tradition and power that the SEC has, and has had, that we would not have a problem in doing so.

It's wild that expansion is happening, and happening so quickly, and from what was said earlier today on ESPN by Jesse Palmer, he believes that from the shifting of teams to create such large conferences, or superconferences, that this is truly pushing the need for a non-BCS, playoff type post-season, and I couldn't agree more.