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College Football V: Bowls Are Done; Carry On My Wayward Sons

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How did I make it to 8pm without realizing the other ACC name brought up today for the SEC: Florida State

A number of issues: FSU doesn't bring a new TV market, though they're at or near the top in a few odd TV rating systems (IE: The bowl game FSU has played in over the last 10-20 years, those ratings are higher than the same bowl game when FSU isn't in it, giving the idea that they do pull more eyes in than usual. Next closest was USC)

The University of Florida. Obvious.
FSU's been hoping to get into the AAU at some point, and give that the SEC has a whopping two Unis in it, it's not exactly a selling point to their academic side.
The Athletic Department would bolt in a second, though. Even after twenty years, the ACC is still run by Tobacco Road and is largely a league that doesn't understand maximizing their football. What other league would take a look at FSU hosting Oklahoma and Clemson hosting Auburn and decide that having them play each other the next week is a good idea? Even if they both win, you can't capitalize on some actual nonconference good news because one of them is going to turn around and lose, regaining their "Perennial Underachiever of Talent" title.
 
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Triple Post!

In more conference reshuffling drama in a less important sport: The Texas Legislature wanted the SEC/B12-2 commissioners as well as some A&M leaders in Tuesday to "discuss" this plan the same way Baylor got strongarmed into the B12 originally, I'd imagine.

A&M responded by moving their regents meeting to discuss "things" up to Monday.
 
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AggieYell.com is reporting that A&M sources say North Carolina also is in discussions. That would probably one of the most blatant examples yet that football is king.
 
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Roy Williams would **** a brick when he realized that SEC basketball officials don't give a crap who his team is. The only thing better would be watching Duke basketball get butt****ed on a regular basis.

/starts Duke to B1G rumors.
 
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Virginia Tech another name being thrown around for joining the SEC.
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Perfect fit. Hope they get Miami and Florida State, too. All the bad eggs in one basket.

Vandy can join the Ivies. We need the cute girls.
 
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Mike Gundy's house has a strict dress code.

A carpenter says he has learned his lesson: Don't wear rival colors to Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy's house.

Gundy is being sued by a contractor who says he agreed to work on the coach's home in March. Brent Loveland of Choctaw says he arrived early in the morning on March 21 wearing a gray "Oklahoma Baseball" T-shirt with the university's name in red block letters. He and two others began to unload their equipment.

According to the lawsuit, Gundy arrived at the house at 9:30 a.m. and spotted Loveland's shirt. "How dare you come into my house and offend my wife," Gundy allegedly said.

Gundy then allegedly used profanity as he told the contractor to get off his property. He called Loveland a "stupid idiot" for wearing the shirt on "OSU soil," and refused Loveland's apologies. The contractor offered to turn his shirt inside-out, but was refused, according to the lawsuit.
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Pac-12, Big Ten favor +1 format

This is moderately important because the Big Ten was the conference that killed the ACC/SEC push for a +1 in 2008. Also of interest is that such a setup would probably have guaranteed bids for those 1 and 2 loss Big Ten/SEC champions that may occur if those schools keep adding Nebraskas, Oklahoma's and the like to their future 9 game conference schedules.
 
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ESPN reporting that A&M has decided to go.

Also reporting that FSU, Clemson and Mizzou are considering joining.
 
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bronconick said:
Pac-12, Big Ten favor +1 format

This is moderately important because the Big Ten was the conference that killed the ACC/SEC push for a +1 in 2008. Also of interest is that such a setup would probably have guaranteed bids for those 1 and 2 loss Big Ten/SEC champions that may occur if those schools keep adding Nebraskas, Oklahoma's and the like to their future 9 game conference schedules.
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Delany now calling that report "erroneous".
 
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MaizeRage said:
The first two are shoe-ins. Missouri's application looks a little weak: "You're only cheating in basketball? Back of the line, queerboys."
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What if they say that they haven't been caught yet cheating for football?? ;)
 
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MaizeRage said:
The first two are shoe-ins. Missouri's application looks a little weak: "You're only cheating in basketball? Back of the line, queerboys."
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I had to struggle to keep the orange juice in after reading this. Utterly brilliant.
 
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SEC statement just released:

“The SEC Presidents and Chancellors met today and reaffirmed our satisfaction with the present 12 institutional alignment. We recognize, however, that future conditions may make it advantageous to expand the number of institutions in the league. We discussed criteria and process associated with expansion. No action was taken with respect to any institution including Texas A&M.”
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WeWantMore said:
SEC statement just released:

“The SEC Presidents and Chancellors met today and reaffirmed our satisfaction with the present 12 institutional alignment. We recognize, however, that future conditions may make it advantageous to expand the number of institutions in the league. We discussed criteria and process associated with expansion. No action was taken with respect to any institution including Texas A&M.”
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I don't know, I'm not sure the statement means anything other than "Hey, slow down a second." A few backs to be scratched, logs to be rolled, etc.
 
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Could be that they want A&M to apply officially so the SEC doesn't get some kind of tampering lawsuit.
 
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Could be that they want A&M to apply officially so the SEC doesn't get some kind of tampering lawsuit.
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Who's going to be left in the big XII-2 when Texas A&M jumps? The remains of the north half of the conference are going to scatter like cockroaches. And the Texas based schools are really going to want to form a new SWC lite conference.
 
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The Big 12 will be another version of the old Big 8. Iowa State and Kansas State are gonna get stuck. No other major conference is going to want them. Kansas has a fighting chance due to the basketball program, and it looks to me like Missouri still has Big 10 on the brain, as reports yesterday indicated that they didn't want anything to do with the SEC.
 
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