Harris Pastides wants 14 SEC teams

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    South Carolina president Harris Pastides would like to see the Southeastern Conference cap expansion at 14 teams.

    Pastides and the other SEC presidents have voted to accept Texas A&M as the league's 13th member, once the Aggies resolve legal issues regarding their departure from the Big 12. The presidents have not decided whether to add a 14th team.

    "I don't think 13 is a sustainable number, but I think 14 is," Pastides said. "I'm not in favor of 16 personally right now. You begin to lose what is a very special quality."

    Pastides spoke with The Associated Press this week about SEC expansion and his role in an NCAA summit this past summer regarding reform in major college athletics.

    Pastides is favor of the SEC growing after Texas A&M joins "because 14 works better than 13," he said. "But if it were Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech (together), to me, I'd be saying, 'What happened to the SEC?' "

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