Back in the days of Roy Kramer, the SEC had little more respect than t...
...he SWC. The SWC just had the hindrance of Texas church schools who had since the 1950's totally lost their relevancy on the college football landscape. From the period of the 1950's and prior to that, the SWC was considered superior football wise to the SEC by those knowledgeable in college football.
Kramer radically changed the course of that history when he read an obscure rule in an NCAA regulations booklet about the possible concept of a conference breaking into two separate six member divisions and that qualifying the reason to create a Conference Championship Game.
Kramer thought about that and decided that was the route for his SEC. Kramer than went to Texas & Texas A&M who both refused his SEC offer. Kramer then went to Arkansas & FSU. Arkansas agreed after long deliberation during the summer of 1990. FSU refused Kramer for the ACC while he was in a Florida hotel room trying to arrange a meeting with the FSU AD. Bobby Bowden later said he did not want the yearly competition of the SEC. Kramer then went to South Carolina for SEC member #12.
That CCG brought prosperity to the SEC never known before. Kramer caused an uproar throughout the Texas SWC by taking Arkansas. The majority of Texas member SWC schools publicly declared they would never play Arkansas again.
I just consider what Kramer did much more forceful than Slive taking in Texas A&M & Missouri somewhat on the rebound. However Slive definitely took strong initiative in keeping the SEC steered in the right by engineering the SECTVN.
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