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let's do this hfd style

uva/unc to big = fsu/clem to b12 uconn/cincy/ucf/usf to acc

ou/ku to big = texas/okst to sec
bay/tcu/tt/ksu/isu/wvu/uconn/cincy/byu/hou to b12
 
FriarJ said:
There is a guy on the Friar site that seems to have a contact within the B1G and he messages me updates from time to time because he knows I follow it from a distance and he sent me one yesterday that said expansion is definitely back on the table for the B1G. He said the options currently being explored are UVA and UNC being the main focus but there is a group wanting KU and Oklahoma because they believe they would jump instantly.

You guys can hash out how the chips fall in either of these scenarios. I would think if the ACC teams were to go it would leave you as a shoe-in for the ACC. If the Big 12 schools left it might be the death nail for that conference with Texas and somebody else jetting to the Pac 12
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Given how much the Big Ten projects to take in on their next television contract and the conference network, I can't imagine that the two Big 12 teams are really viable anymore.

They just do not need those two piddling markets - it's not even 7,000,000 people between the two of them.

Virginia and North Carolina, however, bring 18,000,000 pairs of eyeballs and a much, much better demographic.

The Big Ten has always played the long game and I think OU/KU would be a marked departure from that strategy - in time, I do expect them to go hells bells after UNC and UVA and probably Georgia Tech as well.
 
There are two things I think are held up as sacred that just seem hollow to me.

First, one of the knucklehead smarties keep drawing a line in the sand on the G0R contracts. I just don't see it. To me, those are like the prepayment penalty in mortgages. You can get out of the deal ... then a negotiation starts. As we saw with previous exits, the leaving University never paid full freight. And if there are 6 years remaining, then the clock can get to 3 pretty easily.

Second, this AAU promotion. It's clear that the organization has been highly political and hasn't made any revitalized membership since 1993. In Academic terms, that is the Ice Age. If the B1G wants someone, they can easily not be talking AAU ... tomorrow.
 
FriarJ said:
There is a guy on the Friar site that seems to have a contact within the B1G and he messages me updates from time to time because he knows I follow it from a distance and he sent me one yesterday that said expansion is definitely back on the table for the B1G. He said the options currently being explored are UVA and UNC being the main focus but there is a group wanting KU and Oklahoma because they believe they would jump instantly.

You guys can hash out how the chips fall in either of these scenarios. I would think if the ACC teams were to go it would leave you as a shoe-in for the ACC. If the Big 12 schools left it might be the death nail for that conference with Texas and somebody else jetting to the Pac 12
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Wouldn't surprise me, as that would be a great strategic move by the B1G. I don't think getting UNC is realistic given the politics of the state and the power of the ACC being in North Carolina--but if UNC sees the foundation crumbling, they may want to be the first one out of dodge to get the golden ticket before they are stuck in the SEC (great athletically, but would be a major blow to their academic ego).

If I was Delaney, I would target UVA, UNC, Oklahoma, and Texas (substitute Kansas or UConn if Texas doesn't budge) for a final death blow and firmly establish yourself as the alpha conference with no equal. You would get to 18 teams, which is the eventual endpoint for super-conferences (in my opinion). And you would block the key geographic and market expansion for your only real competition (SEC). Where is the SEC going to expand if you've surrounded their stronghold with no where to expand incrementally? The SEC would likely take Virginia Tech and NC State to get new markets--but they would be getting the 2nd best schools in their respective states while the B1G has the alpha. Delaney has been playing chess while everyone else has been playing checkers--so this would make perfect sense if true.
 
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Matrim55 said:
The ACC has been playing checkers. The Big 12, however, has been playing with the cardboard packaging while leaving the checkerboard entirely untouched.
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My 3 year old is in the Big 12?
 
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If we get a kick in the nuts in June, I am not sure If I could ever go to a car wash again. I would have flashbacks; nightmares where I wake up and scream Wake Forest, and who knows what else. Is there some procedure in place on how this will be handled at the end of June for the car wash guy? There would need to be justice.
 
UConnNick said:
The CR board will never be shuttered. It's blasphemous to even suggest such a thing. The hopes and dreams all shattered and crushed? It's a psychological crutch that cannot just be throw away like yesterday's dish water. It has to be preserved so that future generations of Husky fans can learn from it. Other lesser institutions may continue to seek comfort and understanding of their sorry plight here. We will embrace all institutions which have been cast adrift on an ocean of uncertainty. We will feel your collective pain because we have been there.
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To quote an oldie:
Give me your tired .... your poor ....Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore ..... Send these no-talent, unemployed,
Miller High-Life sluggin' clowns to me ..... I lift my lamp beside
~ T H E . B O N E Y A R D ~
 
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