SEC Shorts puts on auditions to join the league amid conference expansion
By Keith Farner
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SEC Shorts took some time this offseason to offer its take on conference expansion, and what it would look like if programs held auditions to potentially join the SEC.
The popular parody comedians offered this description: It’s been a crazy few weeks in conference expansion and contraction and the SEC is not one to get left behind. They hold open auditions for teams to show up and see if they have what it takes to become SEC material.
Among those auditioning were Florida State, Cincinnati, Duke, North Carolina, Clemson and even Sewanee, the University of the South.
“Hey, hey, what do you say boys, we run it back one more time for old time sake,” the Sewanee character said. “By the way, y’all haven’t bought into that whole forward pass nonsense have you. It’s a slippery slope I tell you. First thing, you’re chucking it through the air like an old Ford Tri-Motor, and next thing you know, you’re paying the players 2 bits per game.”
Missouri even made a pitch just to be reminded that it’s in the SEC, after all. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt and South Carolina were among the programs who didn’t want certain rivals in the mix to join the league.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
