Has Conference Realignment at Last Reached a Lull?

[Calamitous]

Must be an SEC invite

Or maybe what FSU said to Swofford when he opted for someone not named Louisville

 

[The Funster]

There are times when you can't have absolutes in college athletics. I'm not a Domer but they're right when they say that the Big East was going to break apart regardless of affiliation. In a way, I could understand the angst of UConn fans. Their experience in the Big East has been one heartache after another, mixed in with the big successes in basketball and other sports, not knowing if a conference mate would come to you with something beneficial or is thinking of stabbing you in the back. However, let's not forget that Virginia Tech had to leave the Big East to go into the ACC. So your school is one of those who "stabbed them in the back." Nothing one can do to smooth hurt feelings in that respect.

Could the ACC have been tougher on ND? I don't know the answer to the question. But what is not up for debate is that the ACC and ND have a mutual interest in working together in counteracting the greed of the resource-intensive conferences. College athletics comprising of only state flagships is BORING. Nothing against flagship schools but not everyone wants to go to a flagship school. That's the beauty of this country. You have private schools and city schools mixed in to the available programs offering athletics.

Would you like it if someone says that VT shouldn't be in Division 1 athletics because you're not UVa? That's basically what those who root for B1G and SEC schools are saying. UConn fans are trying to get out of the AAC, so they're hoping that by taking this position it would help their cause. I don't see that working out for them.

Finally, to your last question, the problem for WVU is that schools like UMD, Duke, UNC and I think UVa had have a block on them. Otherwise, it would have been something to see WVU and Pitt playing again as conference rivals, then UConn playing Maryland, UNC, Duke, Cuse, Ville and UVa yearly in basketball. RU had the jones for the Big 1G for so long it was hell or high water for them. So no big miss there. I would have thought that Mizzou and RU were the gets for that conference but, whatever.

The ACC wasn't going to be tougher on ND because ND was a life raft to help keep the ACC buoyant in the choppy seas of CR. ND bartered some football games for a soft landing spot for its other sports and the ACC was the next sap to fall for it. Also you cannot criticize "the greed of the resource-intensive conferences" because a) ND has their own football deal and aren't willing to share it with anyone and b) the ACC willfully and with malice destroyed the Big East. I find it ironic when you talk of counteracting that greed when the ACC itself tried to partake of that greed but failed miserably.

 

[NickyNewark]

("RU had a longtime "jones" for the B1G")......and if they had 1 iota of a shot you don't think SU or Pitt did? Be honest since PSU joined every major school in the NE would jump through hoops to get into the B1G because now it represents financial stability and academic integrity and doen't have a "buffoon" like Swoffy as its figurehead. Before PSU joined it was perceived as a midwestern conference but now the NE is very happy and comfortable with it and pretty disappointed in how the southern conference goes about its business(arrogance+nepotism) caving to it's "old south" southern wing. Where ever UConn ends up that conference better watch out(esp ACC) because there gonna "bring it"!!