The big news in the college football world these days is the looming SEC expansion that will include Texas and Oklahoma.

When exactly the Sooners and Longhorns will join the conference remains to be seen, but there is plenty of chatter about it.

So, what do coaches and staffers at the 14 current SEC schools think of the expansion? Athlon Sports spoke to some head coaches, assistants and staffers anonymously, and they had some interesting insight.

One staffer said their school liked the idea of expansion since it helps bolster SEC teams’ Playoff resumes:

“We talked about it briefly as a staff. A lot of us, right away, love the idea. In this league, if you’re playing nine conference games and there’s a[n expanded] playoff, that makes resumes stronger and the game better,” one SEC football staffer said.

As far as recruiting goes, one SEC West assistant isn’t worried, though they do wonder what will happen for SEC East schools like Kentucky and South Carolina:

“If you’re Arkansas or LSU, you’ve always recruited Texas. If you’re a smaller school like Missouri or Ole Miss, I think you benefit. Missouri did well in Texas when they were in the Big 12. If you’re a [Western division school] like the Rebels, you’re probably going to rotate games and play in the state of Texas every year now. That’s a benefit.”

“The bigger question I have,” asked one SEC West assistant, “is how you take advantage of this at a place like South Carolina or Kentucky. Oklahoma doesn’t need to come fight you on a kid in Charlotte or Cincinnati, because they’re Oklahoma. But can you start raising your profile hundreds of miles away in Dallas?”

It sounds like this is a challenge SEC staffs are ready to take on. We’ll see how Texas and Oklahoma fare in the coming years.

Read Athlon’s full conversations with anonymous coaches here.