Associate Commissioner - No Offer To Mizzou - Sec Official

As rumours escalates in relation to wherever various educational facilities will territory on the convention realignment carousel, Charles Bloom of the SEC explained in the cellphone appointment on Tuesday which this convention includes designed simply no the latest offers with regard to some in order to join it.

"The SEC haven't expanded an note to be able to any education over and above Texas A&M because it lengthy invitations to Arkansas and South Carolina," stated Bloom, associate commissioner belonging to the Southeastern Conference.

Bloom dropped to comment further more about unrestrained debate as a monstrous domino amongst players looms:

Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma State plus Texas Tech keep mull possibilities to be able to give the actual Big 12, many obviously towards Pac-12 if them opts to expand.

If most of a number of and also possibly a couple of of them educational institutions leave, the Big 12 probable could only pull through with sweeping repopulating, oftentimes using variety connected with merger with a Big East of which realized over that weekend it is going to lose Pittsburgh in addition to Syracuse that will that ACC.

Mizzou, though, still is seen as a possible SEC candidate.

As that Post-Dispatch documented Monday and Tuesday, an stop of the Big 12 as it at present prevails is a key to be able to growing SEC pondering on MU.

Despite its provisional acceptance connected with Texas A&M, philosophically your SEC hasn't needed to be identified as the cause of your ruin belonging to the Big 12, a stance reinforced by your Baylor-led risks of litigation.

Between which plus a minimum of a strong primary want to appear east for geographical sense of balance and also requests in relation to whether MU's type as well as enclosed economies could create more than enough value to justify dividing the curry further, Mizzou hadn't figured powerfully in SEC discussions.

But in the event the Big 12 folds, the actual SEC really will look much more closely at MU.

And the actual state's a couple best 30 TV markets, Mizzou's educational reputation, the latest soccer achievements in addition to men's hockey convention as well as reality it is contiguous that will about three SEC states gets to be more noteworthy.

Especially if the SEC seems holding tight to be able to their "gentleman's agreement" not to add classes from declares previously within just it's footprint: Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech along with Louisville, intended for instance.

In the event involving Oklahoma, Texas along with Co. leaving, what's definitely not recognised is definitely no matter whether the SEC would feel required to lay away uncooperative Big twelve month period educational facilities as long as they are accessed in really serious talks with the Big East to save some cash a league.

At a glance, that could seems to be an connection point that may be less than predatory. But that's around your vision on the beholder, along with Baylor chancellor Ken Starr is a litigious outrageous cartomancy waiting to be played.