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College Football 2011: Enough of realignment and scandals. Gimme Footbaw!

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As I understand UNC might prefer the superior academic quality of the ACC anyway. Outside of Candy, they don't see any academic peers in the SEC. Its also one of the handful of schools that might actually consider bball in this whole process.
 
Re: College Football 2011: Enough of realignment and scandals. Gimme Footbaw!

I think Baylor has become one of my new favorite teams if they are the ones threatening to sue. Someone needs to put their foot down.
 
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Kepler said:
One of my favorite moments listening to the Paul Finebaum show was when a bunch of his Alabama listeners went on a road trip to watch WVU. Their response was basically -- "Wow. Now these are hicks."
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Inbred national champions, Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl.
 
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Priceless said:
...and that foot is me.
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Re: College Football 2011: Enough of realignment and scandals. Gimme Footbaw!

Here is an unorthodox realignment, most notably with Notre Dame eschewing the Integer to join the SEC.

Code: 
[B]ACC		Big 10		SEC		Pac 12[/B]
North Carolina	Michigan	Florida		USC
NC State	MSU		S Carolina	UCLA
Duke		Minn		Georgia		Arizona
Va Tech		Wisconsin	Kentucky	Ariz St
UVA		OSU		Alabama		Stanford
BC		Nebraska	Auburn		Cal
FSU		Iowa		Arkansas	Utah
Maryland	Penn State	LSU		Colorado
Miami		Indiana		Mississippi	Washington
Wake Forest	Purdue		Miss St		Wash St
		Illinois	Tennessee	Oregon
		Northwestern	Vanderbilt	Oregon St
				Texas A&M		
West Virginia						
Cincinnati						
Louisville	Rutgers				Texas
Syracuse	Missouri	Notre Dame	Oklahoma
TCU		Kansas		Clemson		OSU
Connecticut	Pitt		Georgia Tech	Texas Tech

The biggest winner: TCU
They go from being on the outside to suddenly being included in the conference realignment.

The biggest losers: Baylor, Kansas State, South Florida, Iowa State, Boise State
Boise State can go undefeated until the end of time and they will never get a shot at a national title, or even a BCS game. The other four go from BCS conferences to hoping they can go to smaller conferences for much smaller pay days.

TCU and FSU can be swapped from the ACC for Georgia Tech and Clemson (assuming Florida allows FSU into the SEC)
 
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It would be fun to go to the UEFA Champions League model: say, 4 superconference champions, 2 at large superconference bids, 1 bid from non-superconference FBS and the FCS champion. Let App State play in the tournament -- they'd advance if Michigan won the Big Ten...
 
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Iowa State is also considering legal recourse vs. Texas A&M
 
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They can sue all they want...they are not going to stop any of this.
 
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5mn_Major said:
If the Big XII disolves (assuming A&M gets out and OK leaves), what about U Texas? Most think they bolt for the soon to be Pac 16. A pretty good article says there are many who believe Texas will leave for the Pac 16...never.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18842360
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:rolleyes:

So Texas is going to refuse to leave the Big XII, with one school in the US News Top 50 (that being Texas), for the Pac-12, with 5 in the Top 50, because those schools are on the West Coast? That's the guy's argument? And on top of that, they would rather invite Tier 4 schools like Houston to come join them in the Big XII instead?
 
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WeWantMore said:
:rolleyes:

So Texas is going to refuse to leave the Big XII, with one school in the US News Top 50 (that being Texas), for the Pac-12, with 5 in the Top 50, because those schools are on the West Coast? That's the guy's argument? And on top of that, they would rather invite Tier 4 schools like Houston to come join them in the Big XII instead?
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I'm sure the BCS will welcome the champion of that conference with open arms.
 
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I can picture the headlines if Baylor loses out on the suit.

Close, but no cigar.
 
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Priceless said:
I'm sure the BCS will welcome the champion of that conference with open arms.
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Yeah, they probably would. But my point is, that's a choice Texas would be making for sporting/monetary reasons, not for some harebrained academic scheme.
 
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Not just Baylor

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-aggies-accepted-sec-legal-threat-delays-move

During Wednesday's call, the source said Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin asked if the schools would waive their right to litigation and only one -- Oklahoma -- agreed to do so. Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State, Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State would not, the source said.
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This is all kind of a moot point anyway, since the Big East hurled a lawsuit at the ACC and got nothing but a few non-conference home and homes out of it.
 
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Priceless said:
The Pac-12 signed a 12-year/$3,000,000,000 deal which works out to about $21M per year per school.

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And that's not all...
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Legitimate data, but consider that 1) No one anticipates ND ever joining the PAC and 2) The Big10 TV deal would probably go up upon renewal with ND added. Either way it's more $$ for ND than they currently receive.
 
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bronconick said:
Not just Baylor

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-aggies-accepted-sec-legal-threat-delays-move




This is all kind of a moot point anyway, since the Big East hurled a lawsuit at the ACC and got nothing but a few non-conference home and homes out of it.
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Ok, so lets say the SEC does want to go to 16 teams with the primary one being Texas A&M. They could grab them and say throw out invites to Baylor, Kansas, and KSU as an easy way to get them to drop their suits. The PAC grabs Oklahoma and OSU, and oh, Texas and Texas Tech. That leaves Missouri and Iowa State with legit claims to sue the SEC. SEC calls up the Big Ten, and brokers a deal to get Missouri into the Big Ten, ideally with somehow roping in the Irish. Iowa State, the most screwed here, sues, but the SEC offers up a few home and home deals, along with an agreement that whatever conference takes them in, that conference will pick up first dibs on a bowl game with an SEC school. Mountain West grabs ISU.

Or you could swap Baylor for Missouri, and offer up home and homes to both of those schools and work out deals to get whatever conference that takes Baylor and ISU in will get bowls where they get first dibs to play in.
 
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