"What are you hearing about conference expansion?"
"Any news on Florida State?"
"Would the SEC really prefer North Carolina and Duke over Virginia Tech and NC State?"
"They're saying on Twitter that an announcement from the Big Ten could come today? you hearing that?"
If you ever wanted an idea of what kinds of emails arrive at the MrSEC.com inbox each day (aside from the obligatory hate mail), now you know. Expansion, expansion, expansion. What are you hearing? When will it happen? Who'll move where?
Day after day, we get mostly the same questions. Which is fine, I try to answer them all. But on Thursday a fresh query arrived: "Regardless of what some people say about the Big Ten getting ahead of the SEC, don't you think, too, that Mike Slive knows exactly how to work around Jim Delany?"
That's a good one. But unfortunately, I don't share the emailer's pro-SEC enthusiasm. The reason? When it comes to the next round of conference expansion and realignment, Delany's sales pitch will have two advantages over Slive's. From how I look at it, the Big Ten will likely be the 'winner' in all this mess. But that depends on how you define 'winner', of course. More on that in a minute. First, those two face cards that Delany currently holds?
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