Just having some fun with this. Love these threads. In fact, I'm pretty sure expansion threads were Al Gore's end game when he invented the internet.
***OFFICIAL BIG 12 EXPANSION THREAD 2.0***
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CycloneErik
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I dont see it as a loss. I can think of over 10 schools that make more sense to add then Lousiville.
Coupons are not a myth. CW just doesn't want to share them. :realmad:
However, at the next recruiting party, I'm going to bribe those coupons away from him with cold Busch Light. I will then share said coupons with you.
Its a loss if it keeps the ACC from falling apart. Time will tell if that is the case.
Who knows where Louisville will actually end up either. TCU was going to be in the Big East with Boise State before the Big12 came calling.
Louisville is just trying to get out of the Big East at this point. If the Big12 does expand and needs another team to get to 12, 14, or 16, they can poach UL out from under the ACCs nose.
Still love the 10 school round robin. The only thing that would be better would be 9 school round robin if the TV networks would have allowed it.
Play everybody
8 conference games (4 home, 4 away) in stead of the 5/4 we have now
4 non-conf game.
I've never been convinced the 4x16 is going to happen.
Play everybody
8 conference games (4 home, 4 away) in stead of the 5/4 we have now
4 non-conf game.
I've never been convinced the 4x16 is going to happen.
That's how it will work (if at all) because our conference payout is behind the Big Ten and SEC.
I agree with that, but I still think the Big 12 is more attractive to most the teams in the ACC, especially if you could get a combo of 4 or 5 of them.
The round robin is cool from a football enthusiast standpoint because everyone plays everyone. However, if the Big12 stays at 10 when everyone else is expanding to 16, I think we will be in trouble.
I think they should get two really good schools and expand to at least 12. I think they would be safe there and would only need to expand if they had a perfect opportunity, not just grabbing schools because they are there. COUGH Maryland COUGH
I think having stable divisions and a conference championship will be important in the future.
It may just mean that the ACC will survive in a lesser capacity after the better football teams are cherry picked out. Adding basketball schools will keep them alive as a conference, just not as a football power conference. I think that's the reason they expanded to 14 in the first place, so they could survive any other losses and not end up like the Big East taking any team with a pulse to stay above 8 teams total.
I am hoping that the Big12 is waiting to pull in a couple home runs rather than frantically grabbing to get to 16 first.
I don't know if 16 will work in the long run. I think 12 is way better.
I still think there are many team that make more sense then Louisville. Louisville brings in a small fan base and a small TV market. Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Boston College, Virginia, Florida State, Duke, NC State, Pitt, Syracuse, UConn, South Florida, and Cincinnati all make more sense to me then Louisville.
Maybe the ACC will trade L'ville for WVU straight up. I'd be OK with that. There would be less travel for both conferences, and both schools have similar value IMO.
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I think it's obvious that our TV partners were not willing to up our contract for adding Louisville and that's why the B12 never pulled the trigger. Louisville has been banging down the B12's door for over a year now. If we still had Beebe running the show, I'd be nervous. But Bowlsby has already gotten the B12 an $800 mil contract with the SEC for our bowl game and I trust he is on top of this.
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