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It seems the Big Ten has decided to expand. Looks like 4 teams have an invitation, Nebraska and Missouri are in. Notre Dame is reported as well, if they turn it down, Rutgers will get the invite.

We'll see what happens if this causes other expansions.

I am guessing we will too. I think it would be a mistake, just as I thought bringing in those Big East teams was (and still do)

But them I am incredibly old school when it comes to these kind of things.

If the SEC decides to expand, do you think any ACC schools will move? I have heard alot of talk about Clemson and FSU.

BAJ, have not heard that but it makes sense, especially FSU.

Today there seems to be reports that the Pac 10 are looking at adding 6 and most people are including Texas as one of the teams.

ESPN is reporting that Nebraska is headed to the BigTen and will announce Friday.

This thing is going to get really interesting in the next month.

Do you think the rumors about Maryland to the Big Ten are true?

Colorado is official! The announcement is on the Pac10 website.

I hadn't heard the Maryland rumor.

I just took a quick stroll around the interwebs block and see a WHOLE LOTTA rumors now...

mentioning:
Maryland
FSU
Clemson
VT
GT
Miami

lot's of changes could be headed toward the ACC. If Swofford doesn't have a good plan together that he's already discussed with the ADs, the conference may be in trouble.

I have a hard time accepting a VT and UVA split. After UVA did everything to include VT.

IMO, Clemson and FSU would immediately jump at a request to the SEC.

It's my understanding that the expansion we had was to keep FSU, Clemson and GT from bolting the conference.

I hope all this conference change doesn't impact the traffic on this board...

(06-11-2010 11:53 AM)BornAJacket Wrote: [ -> ]lot's of changes could be headed toward the ACC. If Swofford doesn't have a good plan together that he's already discussed with the ADs, the conference may be in trouble.

Good thing we have a top notch AD at the helm............

(06-10-2010 12:32 PM)BornAJacket Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think the rumors about Maryland to the Big Ten are true?

Could be. Here is a map showing what the potential 16-member Big 10 would look like:

VT & Miami stating today that they plan on staying in the ACC; from what I've read.

Would Clemson, FSU, & GT jump to the SEC if offered?

(Probably, but do you think an offer is likely?)

LOL at the Citadel. I hope they get it!

I also saw today that Boise St has agreed to join the MWC. I think they pulled the trigger too soon.

(06-11-2010 02:33 PM)DukePride Wrote: [ -> ]VT & Miami stating today that they plan on staying in the ACC; from what I've read.

Would Clemson, FSU, & GT jump to the SEC if offered?

(Probably, but do you think an offer is likely?)

Who knows... Clemson is an original ACC member. but they might want to make the uSC game a conference game and get another home game every year. GT and FSU have that same situation with uGA and UF.

I think FSU would jump at it.

I see a ton of GT fans that want the SEC and alot that want the ACC. Personally I'd rather stay in the ACC. The ACCs recent upgraded TV contract helped offset the SECs $$$ advantaged. So that will make the decision tougher for the AD. Bottom line however will probably be the biggest factor. Most everyone says that SEC fans will come to Atlanta in bigger numbers than the ACC fans did. Having another 8,000 sold tickets each game is probably $2.4 million in new revenue with little additional expense. Plus the consessions, etc. It's hard to turn down. I hope it doesn't happen, but IMO if the SEC comes calling GT its probably 75% that GT will accept.

The only thing that may keep GT in is if the ACC schools all decide that they want to stay together and expand to 16 and become the East coast Mega Conference. But that plan had better be in the works now. Once one team wavers, them the others may feel each school for itself. Just like what we are seeing with the BigXII.

Fred believes it is all about market share & with the U's of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, & Kentucky, the SEC already has claim to the media markets in those states. Therefore Fred doesn't see the SEC making offers to FSU/Miami, GT, Clemson, or Louisville.

Adding VT and a Texas team make the most sense to bring in new markets, in Fred's opinion.

I hope the facts-to-rumors ratio is equal to the posts-to-views ratio here on the General Sports board.
Way too many rumors exploding all over the internet today.



I'm reading Texas, OU, OSU, TTech to the PAC 10. Texas A&M torn between PAC 10 and the SEC.

SEC set to offer 1 to 3 ACC schools; speculate as you will to who those schools would be

Notre Dame to Big Ten, announcement coming but not actually in until 2013.

Maryland to the Big Ten still seems to be popular among the speculators.

I am believing more that the BigTen will end up with 16 and Notre Dame will be one of them. Pac10 is also set to be 16. As crazy as it sounds I believe that Maryland will take the BigTen if offered. Last week there were rumors about GT being asked into the BigTen, They were certainly looking to expand into the Atlanta market. Why? because the BigTen network has a contract with all the cable and satellite companies. In this contract, the monthly fee is $0.18 per subscriber inside the BigTen boundaries, it is $0.04 outside the boundaries. So while there are a great deal of Big Ten alumni in the Atlanta area, it doesn't really matter if they watch or not, what matters is how many subscribers the cable and satellite companies are already paying the $0.04. Samething with Maryland and the DC market.

This is a cash cow that the SEC nor the ACC ever dreamed was possible. The SEC may be able to make it happen, but the ACC is impossible. The schools are generally too small and the fanbases don't cover nearly enough geography.

If the SEC feels its TV contracts can be sweetened with 4 more then they'll expand.

These conference expansions are a complete sham, fueled by greed on the part of the schools and utter hypocrisy by the college presidents. This isn't about creating better competition or bringing together like institutions in similar regions; it's all about the ability to build war chests to sustain universities through tough economic times.

Dick Weiss got it right in a column the other day. Among his comments:

It's hard to rationalize a megaconference that spans half a continent, stretching from State College, Pa., to Lincoln, Neb., or College Station, Tex., to Pullman, Wash. Even professional sports are set up with geographical considerations. It is hard to imagine what logic there is when East Coast teams in Major League Baseball have two West Coast swings a season while college athletes in the new Pac-16 will be doing it on a biweekly basis.

None of the university presidents has publicly commented on the new changes that will affect all of them. It's become more evident who the ruling class in college athletics really is, and it has little to do with institutional values or university missions and more to do with financial balance sheets.

Many academics have changed their view of college athletics when they see the benefits of informercials at halftime of Saturday prime-time football and throughout the three weeks of March Madness.

These new geographic affiliations are a far cry from the early 1990s, when university presidents from the Big Ten offered their opinions about whether Penn State - which was considered an outpost -was too far for their teams to travel to when the Lions applied for membership. Likewise, don't expect to hear these same university presidents speaking out about TV time slots like they did when 9 p.m. West Coast games were slotted to assure additional programming for cable networks.

I'm reading that Texas A&M turned down the PAC-10 offer and could announce going to the SEC as early as Tuesday.

That could set-up a case for the SEC to raid one team from the ACC.



What are you guys hearing?