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pj said:
I would guess it's B12 going to 12 teams. His connections are at Texas and why would Texas break a Md/ACC story a week in advance?
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I think the B1G has been rebuffed by the ACC. It's just a hunch. I think Delany tires of wooing southern schools. The Big 12 now needs to move first. So something coming from UT makes sense. Dodds resigning could be big news, along with new additions for the Big 12.
 
noeynox said:
That's basically it, those that don't like it, don't fugging click on it. Title is pretty self explanatory .
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It's like looking away from a bad car accident.
 
pj said:
I would guess it's B12 going to 12 teams. His connections are at Texas and why would Texas break a Md/ACC story a week in advance?
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I don'rt know if that's it, but I do beleive that the Big 12 is ultimately going to be forced to get to 12 teams, if not by the tv folks but the other majors.
 
OK, his blog usually has something funny when I read it but he has never been a "go to" guy for credible info.
 
If Texas is going to break news they have their usual outlet. They aren't doing it through a fictional character dressed as a penguin.

Hopefully Yoda isn't a bike enthusiast, I hear that you can miss a breaking story because you are having your Huffy adjusted.
 
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whaler11 said:
Hopefully Yoda isn't a bike enthusiast, I hear that you can miss a breaking story because you are having your Huffy adjusted.
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His excuse was that he was going to be out of the country.

Tuxedo Yoda‏@TuxedoYoda22 Mar
I'm travelling out of the country for almost a week so I'm sure this is when all hell will break loose in college realignment.
 
[Ise="jostar1, post: 551516, member: 1737"]His excuse was that he was going to be out of the country.

Tuxedo Yoda‏@TuxedoYoda22 Mar
I'm travelling out of the country for almost a week so I'm sure this is when all hell will break loose in college realignment.[/quote]


Is he traveling on a Huffy? :)
 
ZooCougar said:
Most of us serious enthusiasts can adjust our own huffys.
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Really, if you are going to get your "huffy adjusted", it is more fun if someone else does it. I thought that was the whole point of having the conference championship in New Orleans.
 
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Wish we could pin that link to see if it actually happens.
 
The Atlantis-12 contract relegated the Florida teams to the B-division. Not sure Yoda can avoid that
 
I could buy UNC to SEC and I could buy Miami to Big 12 as being network driven.

UNC is a no brainer. Miami looks good on the surface but the reality is that they have only been able to sustain football dominance by cheating. Maybe the networks have over looked that, maybe they don't care but the Miami "brand" has suffered, fallen down and won't get up without cheating again.

I don't think going all in on USF and UCF would be a network decision. That's a football decision to open up fertile recruiting grounds.

The only way this scenario would be good for UConn is if 3 ACC teams do get poached and UConn beats Cinci to that 12th ACC spot. If they ACC loses 3 I wouldn't see the point in trying to get back to 14. Just get back to 12 and hunker down. Unless of course the Big 10 decides to poach the ACC as well.
 
The absurdity flowing from the WV board is apparently contagious, and has spread to Tuxedo Yoda too. Yoda is realizing that if everyone else is shouting nonsense, he needs to shout it with a bullhorn to get any attention on his blog. He has also realized that if you make your "done deal" claims with enough authority, then few people bother to check and see if you are ever right or not. Then he can just wait a few months after something actually happens, and claim he predicted it all along. With all the noise on the college sports message boards, who is bothering to keep track?

His realignment theory has a couple of issues in my mind:

1) Where is the Big 10? Of all the leagues, the Big 10's economic model benefits the most from expansion, but they appear to be bystanders in this.

2) UNC to the SEC? UNC is a very snooty academic institution. I find it unlikely that it would choose to associate itself with schools like South Carolina, Tennessee, the Alabama and Mississippi schools before it would choose the Big 10, especially since the Big 10 money is still better. I think this extends beyond just the administration at UNC too. UNC fans would be more interested in playing top publics like Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue than they would the SEC schools. For basketball, the Big 10 is a no brainer. The SEC doesn't even try to be good in hoops.

3) Miami as the anchor of expansion? Miami and its 20k fans and the possibility of it receiving the death penalty make it unlikely to be the anchor of any expansion process. I find UCF and USF to the Big 12 more credible than Miami being the anchor of a move like that. UCF and USF are huge schools that would likely draw very well against quality opponents. Miami will not draw over 30k actual fans in the seats for most games unless they are a Top 10 team and there is a top tier opponent.

There is this theory on the WV board from one of the new "insiders" (they seem to be multiplying) that the ACC was told by ESPN that they could keep the same TV contract even if they lost 4 schools, with a couple of caveats. That is ridiculous, of course, because that would mean that ESPN was only willing to raise the per school take in the contract if some of the most attractive schools were poached. Does that make any sense at all?
 
noeynox said:
Wish we could pin that link to see if it actually happens.
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Maybe we should have a thread solely for "insider" predictions that can then be used as a scoreboard.
 
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While I think the academic side at UNC would jump at the chance to go to the Big 10 over the SEC, fans seem more united in going in the reverse. No one wants to go to Indianapolis or Chicago for the Big 10 tournament or the championship game. The SEC West is probably about as farflung as the western edges of the Big 10, but UNC fans associate easier with SC, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida than Penn State, Rutgers, Ohio State, Indiana. Perhaps Southern shortsightedness (I for one hate the idea of SEC basketball) but it is what it is. UNC fans also think if they don't accept, State would and then become the superpower in the state (easier to sell recruits on games in Gainesville than games in Ann Arbor).

That all said, I don't see UNC leaving first or second.
 
Those two predictions actually make sense to me. I don't think UNC academics are going to take a hit based on they play sports with and from reading thru their boards they fans would seem to prefer the sec. Miami, if offered a life raft from a conference they perceive is about to see serious defections would be silly to sit back and wait.

Again, I don't buy this stuff like the gospel, and if it don't interest you skip it. I meant to put this in,the key tweets thread and effed up. Feel free to move it there if you can.
 
whaler11 said:
I'll ruin it for you. It's not happening.
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Something will happen, that's where I think you are wrong. I have no idea which prediction will come true, but something will happen. We all dismissed Rut to the b1g and that happened.

The game of musical chairs is on and the music may be about to stop. I still think nothing happens until the md lawsuit is resolved.
 
Stinger92860 said:
Something will happen, that's where I think you are wrong. I have no idea which prediction will come true, but something will happen. We all dismissed Rut to the b1g and that happened.

The game of musical chairs is on and the music may be about to stop. I still think nothing happens until the md lawsuit is resolved.
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Did I say nothing would happen? This guy is full of . If everyone would just ignore these morons they would go away.
 
The Funster said:
I could buy UNC to SEC and I could buy Miami to Big 12 as being network driven.

UNC is a no brainer. Miami looks good on the surface but the reality is that they have only been able to sustain football dominance by cheating. Maybe the networks have over looked that, maybe they don't care but the Miami "brand" has suffered, fallen down and won't get up without cheating again.

I don't think going all in on USF and UCF would be a network decision. That's a football decision to open up fertile recruiting grounds.

The only way this scenario would be good for UConn is if 3 ACC teams do get poached and UConn beats Cinci to that 12th ACC spot. If they ACC loses 3 I wouldn't see the point in trying to get back to 14. Just get back to 12 and hunker down. Unless of course the Big 10 decides to poach the ACC as well.
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This would be the day Malloy better visit Bristol. If ever there was a day. Because if the ACC loses schools and Cincy somehow beats UConn to the last open spot, that would be the absolute end of this all.
 
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JeepCSC said:
While I think the academic side at UNC would jump at the chance to go to the Big 10 over the SEC, fans seem more united in going in the reverse. No one wants to go to Indianapolis or Chicago for the Big 10 tournament or the championship game. The SEC West is probably about as farflung as the western edges of the Big 10, but UNC fans associate easier with SC, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida than Penn State, Rutgers, Ohio State, Indiana. Perhaps Southern shortsightedness (I for one hate the idea of SEC basketball) but it is what it is. UNC fans also think if they don't accept, State would and then become the superpower in the state (easier to sell recruits on games in Gainesville than games in Ann Arbor).

That all said, I don't see UNC leaving first or second.
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I agree.
For right now, UNC’s preference is to keep ACC together because they would lose significant control and influence if they went to the SEC or the B1G.
While the academic side of UNC wants the B1G if conference realignment decimates the ACC next, most alumni, the athletic department, and NC politicians prefer the Confederacy, I mean SEC, over a northern conference such as the B1G. If the SEC sees the major conferences going to 20 in the near future, they would be smart to act now and grab UNC. The reason is that immigration from the Northeast and Midwest may shift UNC’s preference north 20 years down the road just like what is happening to UVA today. Just look at the 2012 presidential election map, i.e. red versus blue, of VA and NC.
 
It would be easy enough to set up a score card and pin the thread.

Name:
Prediction failures: #
Predictions successes: #
Pending: (one line synopsis).

Now note when I say it would be easy enough, I don't mean that I'd actually do it. I just mean that it would be easy enough for someone else.
 
The thing is, the ACC needs UConn and should be tripping over themselves to invite us right now. They are really screwed in NY. Cuse is a world away and we are NYC's basketball team. I don't know what they are thinking but they should probably add Cincy too. It is a lot easier to shrug your shoulders when you lose schools if you don't have to make reactionary additions. If the ACC adds us and Cincy then loses UNC and FSU it will be far less of a media event. Still a big loss but it sure looks better to the casual observer.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
I agree.
For right now, UNC’s preference is to keep ACC together because they would lose significant control and influence if they went to the SEC or the B1G.
While the academic side of UNC wants the B1G if conference realignment decimates the ACC next, most alumni, the athletic department, and NC politicians prefer the Confederacy, I mean SEC, over a northern conference such as the B1G. If the SEC sees the major conferences going to 20 in the near future, they would be smart to act now and grab UNC. The reason is that immigration from the Northeast and Midwest may shift UNC’s preference north 20 years down the road just like what is happening to UVA today. Just look at the 2012 presidential election map, i.e. red versus blue, of VA and NC.
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The population in Fairfield County has grown in recent years and that trend will continue in key age groups. Interestingly I heard just last week the population of NYC has also increased. While the rest of CT is slowing down not everyone is moving south in 2013.
 
Calculate the odds of an announcement on Good Friday and Easter Weekend when most campuses are closed for business.
 
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