SEC! SEC! SEC!

Rumors are flying that A&M will go our own way in the massive conference realignment that broke out last week. It's looking like tu, OU, OK State, and Tech will join Colorado in the Pac-N (where N is a number we can't count to without taking off our shoes). If the rumors are correct, A&M will join the SEC instead.

While football fans think this is about recruiting and TV revenue, Vision 1920 suspects that the BoR is thinking on a much bigger scale. Joining the Pac-N would mean a whole new group of schools in the same conference we'd have to use when doing comparisons of academics to peer institutions. While it must have been tempting to follow the example of mandatory furloughs in the University of California System, the SEC offers a much weaker better list in terms of the goals of Vision 1920.

Pac-N		SEC
Stanford	4
		Vandy	17
Cal	21
UCLA	24
USC	26
Washington	42
tu	47	Florida	47
		Georgia	58
		A&M	61
Colorado	77
		Auburn	88
		Alabama	96
Arizona	102
OU	102
WSU	106	Tenn	106
		S Carolina	110
Oregon	115
Arizona State	121
		LSU Arkansas Kentucky	128
OK State Oregon State Texas Tech	Tier 3	Miss State Ole Miss	Tier 3