All Realignment Talk Here

OK, then the ACC takes UCONN and the remaining BE schools to become the best baskeball conference in the country and we have to recruit asgainst that in this area. Be careful what you wish for.
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I also think once UCONN goes to the ACC they, along with Syracuse, help Boston College become relevant again. And, of course, we forget that along with UCONN the ACC adds Cincinnati. Neither help in football but they sure do in basketball and the ACC is bb centric. More teams leave, in come Temple, USF, maybe Memphis. Temple gives them another bb outpost in the once Big East dominant Northeast.
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You mean that the ACC is becoming the Big East of THIS season. So they become just as irrelevant in football as they were a year or two ago when all the big football schools bolt the ACC and they WILL if and when UNC and Georgia Tech leave for the Big 10. If that happens, it is certain FSU, Clemson and V-tech bolt as well. They aren't going to stick around. Notre Dame will then cut out on their deal with the ACC too leaving them high and dry. oh, and at that point the ESPN contract also isn't likel to stay the same. Hysterical.

We should move to 10 to start off the new conference of bball onlies. Then we should wait til UNC and G-Tech bolt to invite Duke into our bball only league. ;-) The ACC looks like its going to burn next and I've been saying it would for a while. I'll get the popcorn!
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Then there is more on Twitter today about the big 4 conferences leacing the NCAA and forming their own entity for college football. This would mix things up even more. How much are those schools paid? Does this new entity allow the athletes to be paid? Where is this going to end. I believe we are still in the begining stages of a major seismic changes.
 
I'm not the least bit worried about UConn and Cincy headed to the ACC -- mostly because the ACC could collapse pretty easily.

If UNC and Ga. Tech leave, I would not be the least bit shocked to see the Big 12 raid six ACC teams (I count Louisville as ACC now) and have an eight-team Eastern-ish division that includes Iowa St. and W.Va.

Texas | Texas Tech | Baylor | TCU | Oklahoma | Oklahoma St. | Kansas | Kansas St.

Iowa St. | W.Va. | Louisville | Pitt | Va. Tech | Clemson | Miami | FSU


And then of course the SEC would try to nab NC St. and whomever they thought fit best out of Duke/ WF/ BC/ Syracuse/ Virginia.

Conference scrambling is not over by a long shot. It ends when football conferences hit 16. I think the ones claiming that's not the magic number are mostly full of shit.
 
OK, then the ACC takes UCONN and the remaining BE schools to become the best baskeball conference in the country and we have to recruit asgainst that in this area. Be careful what you wish for.
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I also think once UCONN goes to the ACC they, along with Syracuse, help Boston College become relevant again. And, of course, we forget that along with UCONN the ACC adds Cincinnati. Neither help in football but they sure do in basketball and the ACC is bb centric. More teams leave, in come Temple, USF, maybe Memphis. Temple gives them another bb outpost in the once Big East dominant Northeast.
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You mean that the ACC is becoming the Big East of THIS season. So they become just as irrelevant in football as they were a year or two ago when all the big football schools bolt the ACC and they WILL if and when UNC and Georgia Tech leave for the Big 10. If that happens, it is certain FSU, Clemson and V-tech bolt as well. They aren't going to stick around. Notre Dame will then cut out on their deal with the ACC too leaving them high and dry. oh, and at that point the ESPN contract also isn't likel to stay the same. Hysterical.

We should move to 10 to start off the new conference of bball onlies. Then we should wait til UNC and G-Tech bolt to invite Duke into our bball only league. ;-) The ACC looks like its going to burn next and I've been saying it would for a while. I'll get the popcorn!
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That's exactly what the new Big East should do. Bring in Xavier, Butler and maybe Dayton because they got an unbelievable fan base and go into a holding pattern and wait for the ACC to collapse. When the 4 super conferences fill up and they say no more teams the teams left out will come to their senses and give up their football ambitions. Schools like UCONN, Temple, Memphis, Syracuse, Pitt, Notre Dame, Wake Forest , Boston College and maybe Duke if they don't go with UNC , will all wanna merge into a league and form a super basketball conference to salvage their programs.
Those 4 super conferences forming might save college sports . It'll make everybody sensible again.
 
When was the last time any BCS level school dropped football?
In reality all the momentum has been in the opposite direction; schools like UMASS and Villanova are moving towards big time football.

We all think Duke, Syracuse, and UCONN football are a joke, and they might be, but those schools have invested literally millions in their football programs. Far from thinking about downsizing, they're all expanding the amount of resources they devote to football.

I just don't see the demise of second rung football programs happening. Even a bad football program is a source of pride on most college campuses. Football games are also excellent fundraisers for administrators to interact with donors.

Football at bad schools matters a lot more than most of us realize.
 
That football league is effed. No way SDSU will want part of that. That league is going nowhere until the point the ACC has their next round of destruction. Glad we separated when we did. We just need to start adding some good programs like Xavier, VCU, Butler etc.
 
Mike Aresco should do the right thing and allow the basketball schools to keep the name Big East. Then he should focus on putting together a new conference with football playing schools. An ideal 10 team conference can include:

UConn
UMass
Temple
South Florida
Central Florida
Cincinnati
Memphis
Navy
Army
Tulane

If they want to go to 12 schools they can add Houston and SMU. East Carolina probably can be the back up if Army says no. With UConn, Temple,Cincinnati, & Memphis they have a decent (not great, but decent) hoops league. Additionally, there are several "in state" type rivalries with USF & UCF, Army & Navy, Houston & SMU, even UConn & UMass.
 
That football league is effed. No way SDSU will want part of that. That league is going nowhere until the point the ACC has their next round of destruction. Glad we separated when we did. We just need to start adding some good programs like Xavier, VCU, Butler etc.
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We need a commissioner Marcus.
 
That football league is effed. No way SDSU will want part of that. That league is going nowhere until the point the ACC has their next round of destruction. Glad we separated when we did. We just need to start adding some good programs like Xavier, VCU, Butler etc.
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We need a commissioner Marcus.
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Lol. I don't think I can screw our bball league up any worse with my choices. I will send my resume' in after the holiday. ;-)
 
I read yesterday that the Mountain West may target SMU and Houston. Hope it happens, but it's pretty sad that the MWC may be capable of raiding the BE.
 
That football league is effed. No way SDSU will want part of that. That league is going nowhere until the point the ACC has their next round of destruction. Glad we separated when we did. We just need to start adding some good programs like Xavier, VCU, Butler etc.
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It's a bit evil, but I'm actually rooting for the Big 10, Big 12 and the SEC to take their time in raiding the remaining good football schools from the the ACC. My thinking: The longer those power conferences take their time (a few years or more I hope) raiding the ACC, the longer the remaining spare parts of the ACC will take to absorb Yukon and Cinci and the like. I would prefer that Yukon be in limbo without a strong conference affiliation for a longer time.

Hopefully a lack of a strong conference will help choke off Pukon's recruiting. I want to Yukon's program to take a big step backwards so that St. John's has even more recruiting advantages going forward. I will relish the days, if they ever come again, that big-time recruits won't consider Yukon. I want them playing distant second fiddle to us on the recruiting trail, as opposed to the other way around the last 15 years.

That's my Machiavellian thought of the day
 
That football league is effed. No way SDSU will want part of that. That league is going nowhere until the point the ACC has their next round of destruction. Glad we separated when we did. We just need to start adding some good programs like Xavier, VCU, Butler etc.
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It's a bit evil, but I'm actually rooting for the Big 10, Big 12 and the SEC to take their time in raiding the remaining good football schools from the the ACC. My thinking: The longer those power conferences take their time (a few years or more I hope) raiding the ACC, the longer the remaining spare parts of the ACC will take to absorb Yukon and Cinci and the like. I would prefer that Yukon be in limbo without a strong conference affiliation for a longer time.

Hopefully a lack of a strong conference will help choke off Pukon's recruiting. I want to Yukon's program to take a big step backwards so that St. John's has even more recruiting advantages going forward. I relish the days, if they ever come again, that big-time recruits won't consider Yukon. I want them playing distant second fiddle to us on the recruiting trail, as opposed to the other way around the last 15 years.

That's my Machiavellian thought of the day
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Hmmm. A subtle diabolical plan through inaction.

Kind of interesting. I like it
 
Interesting post on Villanova board...a poster indicated that he believed that UCONN and Cinci were considering following the C7 and parking FB in MAC...probably unsubstantiated speculation...interesting nonetheless

On an unrelated note...boy are their posters down on their team
 
Interesting post on Villanova board...a poster indicated that he believed that UCONN and Cinci were considering following the C7 and parking FB in MAC...probably unsubstantiated speculation...interesting nonetheless

On an unrelated note...boy are their posters down on their team
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I think it makes sense for them, but I'd want an iron-clad $100 million exit fee if they joined.

I think I'd actually prefer Temple and Memphis to join the MAC and have them instead of UConn and Cincy.
 
Interesting post on Villanova board...a poster indicated that he believed that UCONN and Cinci were considering following the C7 and parking FB in MAC...probably unsubstantiated speculation...interesting nonetheless

On an unrelated note...boy are their posters down on their team
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I think that's Villanova fans wishful thinking, I doubt theres any truth to it.
Cincinnati went to two BCS bowls recently, they don't think of themselves as a second tier football program.
They'll form some new Big East conference before they joined the MAC.
 
Interesting post on Villanova board...a poster indicated that he believed that UCONN and Cinci were considering following the C7 and parking FB in MAC...probably unsubstantiated speculation...interesting nonetheless
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What Villanova fan message board site did you see the post to which you refer? Thanks.
 
Interesting post on Villanova board...a poster indicated that he believed that UCONN and Cinci were considering following the C7 and parking FB in MAC...probably unsubstantiated speculation...interesting nonetheless
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What Villanova fan message board site did you see the post to which you refer? Thanks.
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http://villanova.rivals.com/forum.asp

dont recall exactly where I saw it
 
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