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SEC (It just means more.. even its losses are wins)

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Former Texas A&M official: Texas, Oklahoma joining SEC would break 'gentlemen's agreement' among league schools

If Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, it would break a long-standing "gentlemen's agreement" between SEC schools that gives conference members "absolute veto power" over the addition of another school from their state, according to a former Texas A&M official.

R. Bowen Loftin, who helped steer the Aggies into the SEC in 2011 while serving as A&M's president, said the oft-discussed unwritten rule was a "specific conversation" during expansion talks in 2010-11 when he was involved. Loftin also served as chancellor at Missouri in 2014-15 after the Tigers made the move to the SEC.

"There's this understanding among the membership -- at least it was 10 years ago -- that you don't admit a school from the same state as a member school unless that member school's OK with it," Loftin told ESPN.com on Thursday. "We talked about it from time to time among ourselves, that this was the way it was going to be, that if we had another school in Texas wanting to enter the SEC, Texas A&M would have veto power."

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-sec-break-gentlemen-agreement-league-schools
 
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ScriptOhio said:
If Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, it would break a long-standing "gentlemen's agreement" between SEC schools that gives conference members "absolute veto power" over the addition of another school from their state, according to a former Texas A&M official.
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Some say an agreement is really nice,
but they really can't meet the price.
I need Money,
That's what I want.
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The situations evolving in college football truly remind me of the monopolies that existed in early America. The big businesses (conferences) just keep acquiring more and more. Eventually this will all have to be broken up because the schools on the out will be really in trouble.

Personally I don't get this situation other than for money. OU can kiss their recent winning goodbye because they aren't winning the SEC where teams play defense.
 
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