Why isnt fsu in the sec

Subscribe Manage my subscription Activate my subscription Log in Log out. Regions Tampa St. Letters to the Editor Submit a Letter. Investigations Narratives Pulitzer Winners. Connect with us. About us. Obituaries Homes Jobs Classifieds. Careers Advertise Legal Contact. Log in. From the late s through the early s, there was not a single team in the country that in any way measured up to what the Seminoles of Florida State were producing—in All-Americans, national titles, national title appearances, 1 st round NFL draft picks, Heisman winners and many other categories.

Jimbo Fisher has quickly transformed FSU back into the recruiting giant it once was, and he is keeping attrition rates, something that haunted Bobby Bowden during the Lost Decade, at a manageable level. If elite recruiting and quality coaching is what leads to championship, it is only a matter of time, maybe months, before Jimbo Fisher leads his Seminoles to the title game.

Fisher is clearly a recruiting savant, and he is still a young man. The SEC would appreciate that lethal combination. Somewhere, mixed in the shuffle of all the media reports and sportscasts, almost assuredly you'll be reminded in some small token of the SEC and ACC expansions of , and you'd have to have a trained ear to not hear the name "FSU" coinciding with the bickerings of "cowards" brought up by a certain fanbase some miles down the road. In , the Seminoles agreed to join a basketball conference—the ACC, which was and perhaps still is, less well known for its prowess on the gridiron.

The Seminoles turned down a lucrative bid for one of two open spots in perhaps one of the best football conferences in the land—the SEC. The Seminoles would go on to play for an unthinkable five National Championships in the next 10 years, winning two in the process. Fans outside of the ACC would say it was due in large part to their dominance within an inferior football conference.

They may have been right. The Seminoles were simply afraid to play a real schedule, against real football teams, namely the teams in the SEC The Seminoles' love affair with the SEC did not begin in the late s, no.

Rather, it began through a humiliating series of disappointing rejections, over the course of a plus year process, in which FSU repeatedly applied for membership only to be continuously told, "no.

The irony behind their lengthy plight, as unimaginable as it may sound, was not due in part to the organization whose fans had proclaimed FSU's cowardice in the final days leading up to the Seminoles' joining of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the late Summer of Instead, FSU would find that the University of Florida—was for many years, its repeated advocate for admission into the conference.

Welcome in, Buckeyes, whose arrogance is well suited for the SEC. The Knights are surging, and fans are emerging from the woodwork. UCF's enrollment tops 70, Given that growing alumni base, this fanbase is only going to keep growing. Adams' verdict: I mentioned arrogance being a useful quality in the SEC, and UCF showed it has plenty when it claimed its football team as national champions.

As Florida's population increases, UCF only stands to grow in popularity. Welcome to Mickey Mouse's favorite team. Toppmeyer's pitch: Tradition. Academic and athletic stature. A cost-to-cost television audience. And it's not just about football with Notre Dame. It has a good history in women's basketball, too. And by adding Texas, the SEC showed it isn't adverse to hubris.