Coach Derek Dooley shouts at his players during a timeout.KNOXVILLE — The cynicism in Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley’s voice was impossible to ignore.
“Missouri’s in the [Southeastern Conference] East, aren’t they?” Dooley said Monday. “That fits right along with all this stuff.”
All this stuff. All this greedy stuff.
Not content to be a stupendous 12-school league that’s won five straight BCS national football championships and two straight College World Series and played in three of the last six basketball Final Fours while winning it all twice, the SEC continued its television-market-grabbing ways Sunday by officially welcoming the Missouri Tigers to the family.
Along with its earlier acquisition of Missouri’s Big 12 brother Texsas A&M, the SEC is now 14 members strong, which signals a remarkable change in philosophy in the 11 weeks since Aug. 14.