Could the SEC break away and start its own league?
Yahoo Sports Daily discusses if the SEC could secede and start its own college football league.
Video Transcript
Sec spring meetings are going down in Destin, and Kirby Smart essentially said, "Hey, if we can financially afford it, I'm not opposed to the SEC breaking away from college football, starting our own league, and playing by our own rules."
Do you think that's actually within the realm of possibility, that we are gonna see conferences break away and start doing their own thing?
I won't say it's completely impossible.
This is such a purely financially motivated decision, and the SEC brings in a lot of money.
The SEC is very lucrative.
I think what's more concerning for what Kirby said was actually what Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard said last week, where he was like, "Why don't the rest of us break off?"
That feels feasible to me, where the Big 10, the Pac-12, the ACC get so fed up with this stuff that they go form their own league, and we just have the Big 10 and the SEC, the Fox and the ESPN conferences is what they will be.
I think that it is not going to happen, but, like, I, I don't know.
I didn't think that Oregon would be in the Big 10.
The sport is so different and changes so rapidly that, like, it is possible
