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Message: [QUOTE="CoastAtlantic, post: 1539516, member: 5174"] Stuart Waugh@sg2waugh [URL='https://twitter.com/theDudeofWV']@theDudeofWV[/URL] We'll let things play out over the next decade. I'm 99% sure you have a homers opinion of the B12 that will be proven wrong Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] The Big Ten amendment is to stop the ACC from going to pods & arranging a FSU-Clemson CCG every year. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Funny too that the ACC is an athletic conference not a quiz bowl conference. Stuart Waugh@sg2waugh [URL='https://twitter.com/theDudeofWV']@theDudeofWV[/URL] Your ignorance is amazing. That is why Rutgers & Maryland in B1G, A&M and Missouri picked by SEC Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] What? I know why UMD is in the B1G. The ACC is a basketball conference in a football world. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] The same forces that drove UMD and RU to the B1G could mean the ACC suffers significant losses in the next round. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Because the TV markets delivered by UNC, UVA, GT are far more valuable to OU's TV market. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] None of those moves were made to improve football - they were made to add markets. Designated market areas as defined by Nielsen. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] So let's say you are the B1G or SEC. You want more revenue. Who do you add? A power program with a medium market? Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Or do you add the largest marked with the most cable households to secure the highest carriage fees possible? Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Texas has turned down the B1G, the ACC and the Pac 12 in the past 2 years. OU isn't AAU which means the B1G isn't interested. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] The SEC already has TAMU so adding Texas would be market duplication. The same reason why they will not add FSU or Clemson. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Since neither FSU or Clemson are AAU do you expect them to leave for the Pac 12? Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] And the Big Ten is also on record saying AAU membership is a requirement for future members. Both UMD and RU are members. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] So are UVA, UNC, GT & Duke. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] Why? Because the Big Ten is on record wanting UVA, UNC, Duke & GT. It's not conjecture. It's a statement. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] And the SEC wants schools from Virginia and NC for SECN. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] I will also point out to you that current Clemson president Jim Clements was at WVU previously. He knows the score. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] And Clements has a strong dislike for the ACC as a conference. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] So the odds are greater that it's the ACC that is drastically changed by 2025 and not the Big 12. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv [URL='https://twitter.com/sg2waugh']@sg2waugh[/URL] It royally pisses me off when someone like you with a peripheral understanding of expansion, asserts fiction is indeed fact. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv Some ACC jerk ruined my night. That and I'm worried about my wife who is out on the roads and late. My cell phone is in her car too. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv So I'm sitting here worried sick and about to kit up and take the bike out to look for her. Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv I know it shouldn't bother me by now ... Christopher Lambert@thedudeofwv But when conceited ACC fans with their heads stuck in the sand claim no ACC school would join the Big 12 it gets my goat. ME: Aww...someone needs a hug! :D:p [/QUOTE]

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