During SEC Media Days, Greg Sankey stated SEC Football (and Basketball) have no expansion plans.
In a recent piece by Blake Toppmeyer for USA Today Sports, it was suggested Sankey has good reason to be cautious. Toppmeyer used what happened in the late 1990s to the Western Athletic Conference. The WAC was 16 teams in 1996 and went down to eight teams in 1999. According to Toppmeyer, the growth was done without adequate “vision.”
Greg Sankey does not need cautionary tales to determine what is best for the SEC. In the paragraphs that follow, every time ‘SEC’ is used, think football.