ShakyTheMohel
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Sometimes I think it is really great the BY gives opposing fans so much leeway here.
Sometimes.
Yeah. Over 2000 posts of leeway.
Sometimes I think it is really great the BY gives opposing fans so much leeway here.
Sometimes.
Don't know if this was addressed in another thread, so I'm adding it here. Being as WVU is one of the proponents of B-XII expansion, AND wants schools closer to Morgantown, I visited the Mountaineer Scout Board & scanned their Big XII Conference board (formerly their CR board). There is a thread simply entitled UCONN.
Incredible stubbornness & lack of enlightenment by some posters. One poster's thoughts as an example: Doesn't want UCONN under any circumstances. They've never been good in football (forget 2 Big East Co-Championships), lack of facilities which they can't afford to build (guess that he's never seen pictures of the Schenk), bring nothing to the table. Other posters tried to tell this clown that, in the future, CR is about population & cable boxes to build a conference network (citing Rutgers to the B-XII as an example) & that UCONN brings the entire area from NYC to Boston-high population density for subscribership. He wasn't having any of it & reduced the thread to name calling. WOW.
When did he tweet this? Doesn't appear recent.@McMurphyESPN: ACC coaches want Notre Dame to join a league. If ND joins a league before 2027, its contractually bound to join ACC
Of course, we don't know the details, such as the damages that ND would pay if going elsewhere.
@McMurphyESPN: ACC coaches want Notre Dame to join a league. If ND joins a league before 2027, its contractually bound to join ACC
Of course, we don't know the details, such as the damages that ND would pay if going elsewhere.
When did he tweet this? Doesn't appear recent.
I've always assumed that if truly forced to join a conference, Notre Dame would go to the BIG. The only way I could really see them coming to the ACC is if they came with a big time partner, like Penn State. But that's not very likely at all.
Well sure if ND agreed to join the Big 10 without absurd conditions and requested BC come along they'd be invited. If ND agreed to join and requested UMass come along they'd be invited too.
5) However, if ND requested BC as a BIG partner (assuming the pope intercedes), BC would be approved in a heartbeat by the BIG.
Yeah, we don't have that problem. Thanks, I think.this is the most sane CR board out there... Every other CR board becomes my conference is better than yours quickly.
5) However, if ND requested BC as a BIG partner (assuming the pope intercedes), BC would be approved in a heartbeat by the BIG. After all, BC brings Boston the same way Rutgers brings NYC (in that they both could potentially bring in viewers and command top rate carriage fees with improvement). BC with historically respectable basketball and football (though we've picked a terrible time to struggle), and the best hockey team in the country, which would certainly win some votes with schools like Wisconsin and Minnesota. Also, if you're ignoring AAU to add Notre Dame, BC's academics certainly pass muster.
The only thing worse about the BIG is the argument that Notre Dame couldn't dominate, and would lose it's mystique when it becomes just another Midwestern team, a la Penn State.
Here is my opinion.
UConn and Cincy go to B12 and help kick off the B12 network. ACC does not start a network so FSU and Clemson join the B12. In the ensuing panic Virginia and ND join the B10 and this really gets the ball rolling. Next the SEC takes UNC and Duke. The B12 then grabs Georgia Tech and VT. The leftovers from the ACC merge with the AAC to become the AAAC.
Wait, @TerryD isn't key?
Plausible, but I can't buy UVa or even the more I think about it, VT as #16 for the BIG. What do they bring?