You know why they didn’t- because the ACC internally has conflicting vision. They are not unified.
Well they f u n k’d up because they waited too long and all that is left is Granny.
No it doesn't. Not in a state with 6 P4 teams. The ACC will never crack Texas, which is why they never bothered with Houston. Houston was there for the taking all along and is much better than SMU (it's also technically on the Atlantic coast). This SMU thing is nonsense, they will probably end up with the PAC schools.
A state with 29MM people that added the equivalent of nearly 3 entire CTs in 20 years. A state that is madly in love with football at the HS level. SMU might not happen for many reasons, but there is no denying it is on the table. Now it might get kicked off the table today after this ACC meeting, but for this week it has been a thing.
Which part?
"Technically on the Atlantic coast." Pretty sure it's considered Gulf Coast.Which part?
I don't know if it's on the table, I simply know that if you walk into a sports bar in Texas, it will be tuned to SEC and Big XII games, no matter what. SMU isn't changing that, whether in the American, ACC or New PAC.
Of course not. No one has realistic goals to achieve that.
Nebraska used to load up on recruits; that was their method. They used to dress 130 kids. No other school in the country was like that. I don't really know how they bypassed the 85 recruit limit, but that's how it was before entering the B1G
Instate Nebraska kids got free tuition, and their OL were all big farm boys from their instate walk on program. Nebraska HS football eventually faded due to numbers and now i believe most HSs just have 7 on 7.
Yes but The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean
As a fan of the old Big 8 and a Nebraska fan, the reality is that the game changed. Those schools all featured dominant running games at their best. They had incredible OL talent from those local boys and got RBs from all over. The plains are windy, which is one reason why the Big 8 evolved to mostly avoid passing the ball and play great defense. As it all shifted to a passing game, Nebraska could never keep up. Even when they had some success somewhat more recently, the QBs ran the ball, like Eric Crouch.
This is the recruiting myth about Nebraska. Nebraska was in the Big 8 until 1996 and the Big 8 had no presence in Texas as it was made up of: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Kansas, Kansas St., Missouri, Colorado, Iowa St. I looked at Nebraska's roster from 1994 when they were in the Big 8, went 13-0, beat Miami in the Orange Bowl, and ended up ranked #1. By far, most of the players were from Nebraska, but the other states most represented on the roster:
Fine. Texas has no value in recruiting.
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Take it to the geography thread!
I didn't say don't recruit Texas. What I said was Texas was not a big recruiting ground for Nebraska when they were in the Big 8 and not playing in Texas and when they were winning championships. Nebraska was recruiting nationally due to their success.Fine. Texas has no value in recruiting.
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Which of course means Arizona was really the plan. The Big 12 didn't have to accept the package deal.Iowa ST confirmed UConn was part of the plan, and then it wasn't on that Friday morning. I suspect the 3 corner schools forced themselves in as a package.
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After Colorado made the jump to the Big 12 around two weeks ago, the public’s focus shifted to the rest of the Pac-12 and where they might end up. Sure, there was noise about UConn potentially coming in as the 14th school, but there wasn’t any validity to that, right? You bet there was. That […]
Thus your reference to Houston being on the Atlantic ocean was only "marginally" correct.