Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[CoastAtlantic]

Very interesting...

 

[ramses 2.0]

Very interesting...

Yeah that's nothing new, the UNC/NCSU dynamic is unique compared to most of the other instate rivals that split. So it we both go or we both stay

 

[businesslawyer]

All we can do is try and win games. Beating NC State is job 1. I’m supremely disappointed in UConn’s unwillingness to engage on this issue. We are afraid of our own shadows. Get out there and frigging sell the brand coast to coast. Cut some scheduling deals with the PAC 4. Hiding away in the corner is no way to advance out cause.

To engage whom? You? Because you have no friggin idea what contact they've had with the other conferences.

 

[Rufus]

How is the UNC/NC State dynamic any different than Cal/UCLA? They were allowed to split from each other into different conferences.

 

[ramses 2.0]

How is the UNC/NC State dynamic any different than Cal/UCLA? They were allowed to split from each other into different conferences.

Because the state won't allow it. So basically they both go to the same conference or 1 goes to B1G & the other to the SEC or we stay where we are

 

[businesslawyer]

How is the UNC/NC State dynamic any different than Cal/UCLA? They were allowed to split from each other into different conferences.

Do you not understand that each state may have different views on something like this?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Yeah that's nothing new, the UNC/NCSU dynamic is unique compared to most of the other instate rivals that split. So it we both go or we both stay

It would actually align well within the SEC- Texas/A&M, Ole Miss/Miss St. Alabama/Auburn, Tennessee/Vandy. Plenty of doubled up programs within the same state within the SEC.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[Samoo]

Do you not understand that each state may have different views on something like this?

^Cranky BL

Please understand that each state may have different views on something like this.

Polite BL

Each state may have different views on something like this.

Direct BL

 

[John]

Didn't the Virginia state legistlature force the ACC to take VA Tech due to UVA being in the conference already?

 

[businesslawyer]

^Cranky BL

Please understand that each state may have different views on something like this.


Each state may have different views on something like this.

In fairness, exasperated would be a better adjective. I can't fathom how someone can't understand why a decision the State of California makes that affects two flagships isn't binding on a decision that another state will make between a flagship and a separate university.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Didn't the Virginia state legistlature force the ACC to take VA Tech due to UVA being in the conference already?

Yes.

 

[JeepCSC]

I'm expecting he'll announce the new NBC-Notre Dame deal any minute now.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Didn't the Virginia state legistlature force the ACC to take VA Tech due to UVA being in the conference already?

Doubt it. VT was a good product

 

[JeepCSC]

Yeah, the original raid in 2003 was going to be Syracuse, BC, and Miami. Virginia, Duke, and UNC were no's and blocked the expansion. Virginia politicians got involved and Syracuse got substituted out, and then all of a sudden Virginia was a yes.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

It is a simply reflection of the country. Everything we have is for profit or winner take all with other affected be damned. Whether it is health care or college education cost, it is all for profit. People and schools are just pawns to the profit making machines. Conference realignment is just part of the overall system so not sure why anyone is surprised.

 

[JeepCSC]

Because the state won't allow it. So basically they both go to the same conference or 1 goes to B1G & the other to the SEC or we stay where we are

I believe this will be the reason UNC isn't the first out. But if there is a deep raid ala the PAC, the politicians won't risk both state schools getting left behind in a rump ACC. It would be political suicide. Once UVA and/or Duke start getting feelers, UNC will be out like trout.

 

[John]

Doubt it. VT was a good product

No, they were a second choice forced on the ACC by Virginia politicians.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Very interesting...

And, this is how it should be.

 

[billybud]

1...Swarbrick's JD was Stanford Law...a homey

2...Notre Dame has been as complicit as any in the unravelling of college football.

 

[CL82]

In fairness, exasperated would be a better adjective. I can't fathom how someone can't understand why a decision the State of California makes that affects two flagships isn't binding on a decision that another state will make between a flagship and a separate university.

"Judgey BL"?

 

[CL82]

It is a simply reflection of the country. Everything we have is for profit or winner take all with other affected be damned. Whether it is health care or college education cost, it is all for profit. People and schools are just pawns to the profit making machines. Conference realignment is just part of the overall system so not sure why anyone is surprised.

Could not agree more! Things would be so much better if we had a collectivist system rather than a capitalist system.

Or maybe not..

 

[Ldandy]

1...Swarbrick's JD was Stanford Law...a homey

2...Notre Dame has been as complicit as any in the unravelling of college football.

100%

ND could save The ACC tomorrow by joining. They won't. Ever.

ND is pushing for the addition of Stanford and USC to The ACC, despite it serving no one else in the conference's interests but their own.

If people haven't figured it out by now, fvk ND. I hope they game the system all the way to finding themselves on the outside of it looking in.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

100%

ND could save The ACC tomorrow by joining. They won't. Ever.

ND is pushing for the addition of Stanford and USC to The ACC, despite it serving no one else in the conference's interests but their own.

If people haven't figured it out by now, fvk ND. I hope they game the system all the way to finding themselves on the outside of it looking in.

ND could threaten to start a new conference with Stanford and California. That would get the ACC motivated.