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Chuck said:
The reason that the ACC is surviving is due to a slight, but important difference in how the BE collapsed. I think the fact that many of the schools know they have options is keeping them from moving. FSU and maybe Clemson know they can go to the B12 if they have to. UNC, VT, UVa, etc. have the B1G, B12, SEC as potential options. They all feel that they can wait for someone else to make a move first. The Big East teams were under a belief (rightfully so) that if they said no to the ACC, someone else would take their spot and they'd be stuck in UConn's situation(although I'm not sure they didn't think RU, WVU and Louisville would still be around also).
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The ACC is also a logically crafted league with plenty of history. There is nothing at all wrong with it. It has some of the fastest growing areas in the country, fine academics and schools with great traditions in every major sport. The only things working against it are (1) an ill-timed TV contract that doesn't pay as much as others and (2) some football programs with historic success have underperformed (VT, GT), and in some cases, dramatically (BC). If BC was even up to their prior level and VT was usually ranked along with FSU and Clemson, the league would be solid.
 
ZooCougar said:
Exactly.

You really think the ESPN's Management will just allow their investment in the ACC to just fall to bits because Clempsun and Free Shoes University suddenly realized they can make more money with the other RedNeckistan Schools in the Big 12?

IF it ever comes to that ESPN will cough up some more money and stabilize everything.

In realignment, nothing that was expected to happen ever did. The Big 12 never fell apart, because Texas never left. Instead the unexpected took place, ATM and Mizzou, Rutgers and Maryland. Pitt? Even Colorado and Nebraska to a certain degree.
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Then it looks like it is SEC bound for UConn. No one, outside of 176 people, expect that. " Roll Long Island Sound"
 
Quite frankly, as I stated in a prior thread, ND and GT were the two Presidents who Herbst lectured at her very first Big East President's meeting. There is no way ND will vote in favor of UConn.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Pure factional.
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Were you guys there or do you know someone who was? That's all I can say for now. The problem with having good sources is I can't reveal them.
One observation, Calhoun discussed his first Big East coach's meeting on WFAN . He was in awe of the legends in the room and treated them with respect and understood the traditions. He did not lecture them. Of course then he proceeded in a few years to beat their butts.

Granted my wife said the 2 male Prez probably had it coming - but it is not rightly/or wrongly the way to get started.
 
Chief00 said:
Were you guys there or do you know someone who was? That's all I can say for now. The problem with having great sources is I can't reveal them.
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Can't say. These are people on the inside, and think in terms of centuries.

Did you know that CT actually used to be a part of North Carolina and it broke off and drifted north millions of years ago?

We are southern after all. Mountain Dew is the best soft drink.
 
ZooCougar said:
Can't say. These are people on the inside, and think in terms of centuries.

Did you know that CT actually used to be a part of North Carolina and it broke off and drifted north millions of years ago?

We are southern after all. Mountain Dew is the best soft drink.
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Actually for the record, OH was once part of CT territory annex.
 
Chief00 said:
Were you guys there or do you know someone who was?
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I know Fishy's sources and connections are a thousand times better than your friends at the YMCA.
 
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Chief00 said:
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Granted my wife said the 2 male Prez probably had it coming - but it is not rightly/or wrongly the way to get started.
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Wait, so your wife was present at the BE presidents meetings? Hate to ask, but, can you tell us what the topic of the Herbst lecture was?
 
ZooCougar said:
Can't say. These are people on the inside, and think in terms of centuries.

Did you know that CT actually used to be a part of North Carolina and it broke off and drifted north millions of years ago?

We are southern after all. Mountain Dew is the best soft drink.
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Please. They don't drink Mountain Dew in North Carolina. Go back to a Kansas City Wiz game. It's Mello Yello.
 
Chief00 said:
Actually for the record, OH was once part of CT territory annex.
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Did you know there is a Southington Connecticut and a Southington Ohio. We are through the looking glass here people.
 
whaler11 said:
If you are new to the Conference Realignment board you can read ten thousand posts or these two words. Your call.
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Anyone know how Fishy is taking the news of being passed over for Pope?

FWIW, my sources did tell me he was runner up and provided he keeps his hands clean, he should be next in line should Jorge Mario someday move on to bigger and better things...
 
whaler11 said:
Please. They don't drink Mountain Dew in North Carolina. Go back to a Kansas City Wiz game. It's Mello Yello.
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Mello Yello went out with Cole Trickle and Zubaz pants. You are simply not up to date.
 
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RMoore1999 said:
Anyone know how Fishy is taking the news of being passed over for Pope?

FWIW, my sources did tell me he was runner up and provided he keeps his hands clean, he should be next in line should Jorge Mario someday move on to bigger and better things...
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I have no idea if Fishy has legitimate sources or not. I do know that Chief is full of crap. Not mutually exclusive.
 
ZooCougar said:
Mello Yello went out with Cole Trickle and Zubaz pants. You are simply not up to date.
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Maybe you need a refresher course. It's all Mello Yello these days.
 
ZooCougar said:
Only if you eat at Hardee's off of Exit 163 on I-95 in North Carolina.
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Here is a fun Whaler11 fact. I actually managed a Hardees in North Carolina for 4 months. It was off I-85 though and a bit further north.

I was 23 and the stories and the people I met are priceless.
 
whaler11 said:
Here is a fun Whaler11 fact. I actually managed a Hardees in North Carolina for 4 months. It was off I-85 though and a bit further north.

I was 23 and the stories and the people I met are priceless.
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Oh man. So much to work with here.
 
RMoore1999 said:
Anyone know how Fishy is taking the news of being passed over for Pope?

FWIW, my sources did tell me he was runner up and provided he keeps his hands clean, he should be next in line should Jorge Mario someday move on to bigger and better things...
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You can buy into Chief's nonsense if you'd like.

Ask him to tell you about the heart to heart he had with Jerome Dyson last summer.

That's my fav.
 
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whaler11 said:
Please. They don't drink Mountain Dew in North Carolina. Go back to a Kansas City Wiz game. It's Mello Yello.
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...and Mello Yellow sponsored South Campus in the campus wide color wars in 1981. Coincidence? I think not.
 
CL82 said:
...and Mello Yellow sponsored South Campus in the campus wide color wars in 1981. Coincidence? I think not.
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Mountain Dew was always a better chaser.
 
housekeys said:
Look guys, can we get off these irrelevant and off-the-wall topics and get to the serious discussion about UConn to the SEC? TIA
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What is stupider: A debate about the superior citrus soda or UConn to the SEC. That's a tough call.
 
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