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I was having an argument with a Gaytor about how Florida was scared to play Miami so they dropped us, so he made the argument that Miami was scared of the SEC.

So i came across this article:

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2011/1990-sec-expansion-southeastern-conference/


I was under the impressive from reading somewhere before that Miami was blackballed from the SEC by Florida at one point. But all this mentions is that being the situation with FSU-

Another report, by Mark Maske of the Washington Post, suggested Florida State refused to be in the same conference as Florida because the Gators “once fostered an SEC blackballing of the Seminoles."
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The only mention of Miami is this

Four days after spurning Florida State, Kramer met with Miami, one of the two remaining expansion candidates. South Carolina’s trustees had preemptively voted to accept an SEC invitation should one come. Miami was decidedly less enthused. Unlike the mostly public universities in the SEC, Miami was a private school that drew its student body in large numbers from the same geographic area as the Big East. Miami officials were also more interested in using Big East membership to improve its fledgling basketball program.
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Was there ever a point besides 1990 where Miami wanted in and was blocked by Florida, or was that only the case with FSU?
 
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Why would we have ever wanted to be a part of the SEC back then, we owned college football & and the SEC wasn't dominating ****.
 
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jnw4563 said:
Why would we have ever wanted to be a part of the SEC back then, we owned college football & and the SEC wasn't dominating ****.
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Back when? We wanted to be in the SEC in the 40s and 50s. We didn't want to be in the SEC in the 80s and 90s.
 
Notsince1985 said:
jnw4563 said:
Why would we have ever wanted to be a part of the SEC back then, we owned college football & and the SEC wasn't dominating ****.
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Back when? We wanted to be in the SEC in the 40s and 50s. We didn't want to be in the SEC in the 80s and 90s.
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Being in the SEC would have completely changed how Miami athletics was ran, we may even have had a large stadium, the conference bowl tie in may well have been the Orange Bowl and not the Sugar and the OB itself would never have faultered under the SEC good ole boys.
 
I never thought we should give independant status, but if we were going to join a conference I would had preferred the SEC. We where the King then and would have crushed SEC schools the same way we did everyone. That is why FSWho was their first choice. Idiot UM administrators hated football team and wanted basketball program they could claim credit for. It had nothing to do with fearing SEC-- 1990 exactly who would THE U had been affraid of. So they got stuck with last choice SC. Still, I wanted, and still do want, to go SEC. If we were SEC that little Pell Grant thing would have been swept under the NCAA rug -- **** we could have charged the other SEC AD's consulting fees to show them how to do it. The current fprever investigation would had been over by Al's first game with players being suspended for lunch on Tuesday of game week. Now we will just have to crush the SEC's little resurgance. Trian is loading at platform 1.
 
Tulane is still kicking itself everyday for leaving the SEC in 1966. They'd kill to be Vanderbilt and make the $$ Vandy makes just for being in the SEC.
 
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If this guy is saying that we were scared of the sec back then when they dropped us, he's a full on ******. These sec ***s like to think the sec was always what it is today. It wasnt.

Back in that time we kicked uf's ***, destroyed lsu in their house, beat south Carolinas ***,, destroyed Arkansas, beat bama twice to cement national titles. We ran roughshod over the sec.
 
terdferguson said:
If this guy is saying that we were scared of the sec back then when they dropped us, he's a full on ******. These sec ***s like to think the sec was always what it is today. It wasnt.

Back in that time we kicked uf's ***, destroyed lsu in their house, beat south Carolinas ***,, destroyed Arkansas, beat bama twice to cement national titles. We ran roughshod over the sec.
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Preach it!
 
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Miami was not joining a CONF that a ****** could play for..we did not have a full sports program that they wanted..
mens Golf, mens soccer or womens Softball....

the sec has only been good for the last 10 years on ONE sport in football that you guys see...joining a Conf is about grades, money, grants etc....the SEC has Vandy which was a founding team...

FSU and Miami were looked at in the 90s when Ark and USc were allowed in...due to our image no way the SEC was allowing either FSU or Miami...FSU was in the ACC dominating and us in the Big east...

TV changed the landscapes with money...
 
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