The absurdity flowing from the WV board is apparently contagious, and has spread to Tuxedo Yoda too. Yoda is realizing that if everyone else is shouting nonsense, he needs to shout it with a bullhorn to get any attention on his blog. He has also realized that if you make your "done deal" claims with enough authority, then few people bother to check and see if you are ever right or not. Then he can just wait a few months after something actually happens, and claim he predicted it all along. With all the noise on the college sports message boards, who is bothering to keep track?
His realignment theory has a couple of issues in my mind:
1) Where is the Big 10? Of all the leagues, the Big 10's economic model benefits the most from expansion, but they appear to be bystanders in this.
2) UNC to the SEC? UNC is a very snooty academic institution. I find it unlikely that it would choose to associate itself with schools like South Carolina, Tennessee, the Alabama and Mississippi schools before it would choose the Big 10, especially since the Big 10 money is still better. I think this extends beyond just the administration at UNC too. UNC fans would be more interested in playing top publics like Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue than they would the SEC schools. For basketball, the Big 10 is a no brainer. The SEC doesn't even try to be good in hoops.
3) Miami as the anchor of expansion? Miami and its 20k fans and the possibility of it receiving the death penalty make it unlikely to be the anchor of any expansion process. I find UCF and USF to the Big 12 more credible than Miami being the anchor of a move like that. UCF and USF are huge schools that would likely draw very well against quality opponents. Miami will not draw over 30k actual fans in the seats for most games unless they are a Top 10 team and there is a top tier opponent.
There is this theory on the WV board from one of the new "insiders" (they seem to be multiplying) that the ACC was told by ESPN that they could keep the same TV contract even if they lost 4 schools, with a couple of caveats. That is ridiculous, of course, because that would mean that ESPN was only willing to raise the per school take in the contract if some of the most attractive schools were poached. Does that make any sense at all?