Again, come back at the end of the year and tell me ISU's stats.

Only Florida and Vanderbilt qualify for AAU status. The SEC isn't about academics.

The ACC is terrible at football. They are better than the Big East, but not by a lot.

Dude you are joking are just crazy.

ACC football is FSU, Miami, Va Tech, and a bunch of nobodies. FSU has been mediocre since the 90's (getting better now), Miami has been off an on since the NC game in the early 00's.

SEC, Big 12, and Big Ten have CLEARLY been better. No contest really.

So has the Pac 10.

Wrong.

What teams in the ACC have been worth a shit over the past decade?

Nope.

Ocassionally the Big 12 or PAC 10 is better, but never over the past ten years has the Big 10 been better. Their football product sucks. The only team I wouldn't want to play in that entire conference is IOWA and Wis. The rest is trash from another century. OSU getting passess in that conference has been nothing short of a giant joke perpetuated on the masses. Playing in that weakass conference, going undefeated, and getting destroyed like a hihg school team in the NC game. LOL

Virginia Tech has obviously been the best in conference and one of the top teams in the nation for over the past 15 years. In fact last season they completed their 7, 10 plus win season in-a-row.

Miami is a tought team to beat. If they got a QB they and FSU would be unstoppable. And Gerogai Tech is a tough team too with that triple option. Shit if FSU had a QB worth a crap they would have beat OU the other night.

Playing ACC scrubs.

Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State, Iowa, Nebraska, and Penn State would all be top 3 teams in the ACC over the past decade.

Maybe.

Nebraska wouldn't or are you forgetting Bill Callahan. Penn State has had one really good season over the past decade. MSU...LMAO. OSU....doubt it. They wouldn't go undefeated. Iowa though...Wisconsin...I'd take those teams.

bumping this so real news doesn't get missed in this dumb conference slap-fight.

UT to PAC 12 may not be a done deal at all.

tOSU wouldn't be better than any of the teams over the last decade in the ACC? LMAO

LMAO

Lets not be silly.

fyp

According to this,UT President received permission to start looking. As did OU's.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...s_give_po.html

It is my understanding that my chocolate lab has been granted entrance to the Pac12 provided he can attain AAU status.

This doesn't disprove what Alnorth said.

Yeah, Bohls from the Austin-American statesman is SUCH a rumormonger :rolleyes:

UT was not given what OU received. OU's president has the green-light to do anything, he no longer has to come back to the board.

UT's board gave UT the permission to do only two things: publicly reaffirm that UT is staying in the Big 12, or say nothing and keep talking to schools and conferences behind closed doors. They decided not to give UT's president the freedom to change conferences without coming back again later to ask for permission.

Said here on the sports animal that ou / osu are pretty much a done deal to the pac 16.

Everything is rumor and/or speculation at this point, or was there something decisive in your post that clears up all of the conference questions?

Big 12 schools going to the ACC doesn't make sense from a geographic or rivalry standpoint. The Big East/Big 12 combo would make an effective basketball conference even without Pitt and Syracuse. They would still trump the ACC in football. It will be a pretty spread out conference though.

Granted, Boren has absolute power,but UT regents will follow along with Powers if he sees fit in moving to a new conference.

Maybe, maybe not. If they were going to follow Bowen blindly, why didn't they give him the authority to make the move? The fact that he has to come back and ask the regents to approve a move means the regents are expecting any conference deal that Texas makes to be lopsided in the Longhorns favor. I think they might have a tough time finding a better deal than what they have now.

Per Gabe Dearmond, the Rivals WVU guy is saying that he also is hearing WVU was declined, but he can't confirm it.

*awkward*

In this case, it is not a rumor because it is a freaking public meeting. They can meet in executive session all they want which leads us to wonder what they discussed, but Bohls only reported what they officially empowered Texas to do. Or, rather, what they did NOT empower Texas to do.

So no, it is not a rumor. Sometimes you have real hard news in this mess.

Lol

convincing post

Sorry, Boren, typo, and Powers, both schools know they need each other and will either stay or go to the Pac-12 together. Both schools would rather stay in the Big 12 but changes have to be made. Pac 12 wont turn down the Texas TV market. Longwhorn Network will morph into the Pac 12 tv deal and UT wont lose money. UT does not want an OU less Big 12.

Garcia Bronco is a Virginia Tech fan, if y'all didn't know.

But that does not fit in with OU wanting to leave because they are pissed at Texas. Why bother moving if Texas is just coming along with ya?

I am not a Fan. I am a Hokie. I am a part of the Alumni.

Posturing, IMO. Forcing UT to decide TV with weaker league or equal revenue sharing. IMO, OU wants to stay in a stable Big 12. UT/OU are intertwined, each requires the other at this point. OU being pissed is an overstatement. If Boren and Joe C. were pissed they wouldnt have met with UT a week ago.

No big 12 team will go to the ACC.

Thank goodness. No way anyone wants to have to face VT every year. ;)

Sure thing big guy. Looks like you have a handle on this thing.

Exactly. :)

If his debate skills regarding the prowess of ACC football are any indicator that there VaTech degree is as useful as the boil on Beamer's face.

This is a classic textbook troll response: When you are confronted with absolute indisputable proof that something you said was wrong, under NO circumstances should you EVER take the high road and admit you were wrong. The high road is only travelled on by losers. Instead you should give a non-response coupled with a condescending insult.

Mark Blaudschun from the Boston Globe tweeting that the SEC will add aTm and Mizzou and stand pat at 14.

:)

KU probably wants the ACC to let them bring Texas along, but the ACC only wants Kansas.

KU in the ACC would make it the dream team of basketball conferences. Adding Pitt, Syracuse, UCONN and KU to what they already have? HOLY SHEEOT!

It makes perfect sense that a team 300 miles west of the Mississippi would be added to a conference that is bunched up against the Eastern sea board.

Any port in a storm

If you're Kansas, yes. If you're the ACC, no.

Yeah...in addition to the convenience of fans traveling to the games to support their team.

I really hope ND goes to the Big10 so KU has a somewhat of a chance of getting in with their expansion. It wouldn't be a terrible conference if you are talking about basketball with MSU and OSU.

K-State to the Ivy League...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...n=ncaaf-wp6582

And here's one out of left field: This writer is usually pretty in tune with the mid-majors. She says TCU has had discussions with the Mountain West about backing out of the Big East and coming back to the conference. And that the Mountain West would probably, emphasize probably, endorse the move.

Also, the Mountain West has been discussing some kind of football merger with C-USA... and they've been offering landing spots to Big 12 and Big East teams if the whole thing falls apart.

I could see it happening. Chris Del Conte has been pretty good about keeping TCU moving forward.

I was pretty sure this was going to happen once I heard about Cuse and Pitt.

The talk about the MWC and C-USA was to have each leagues champion play eachother at the end of the season with the winner being an AQ for the BCS. At least that was the talk a few months ago. I'm not sure if it's still the same, but if either league were to poach teams from the other one, I'd assume it would be the MWC taking some C-USA teams.

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/201..._12_big_east_m

I'd say with super conferences, geography differences will become more of a minor issue than a sticking point.

Getting more suitcases filled with $100's will help dull the pain of having to fly across the Mississippi.

That's some pretty forward thinking stuff by the Mountain West and C-USA. Really most of those schools are in the western 2/3rds of the country, except for UCF and East Carolina. They'd definitely have a lot more pull behind it if they can get TCU back though. You could argue the MWC was better than the Big East in football in some years anyway.

I just don't know about KU to the ACC. I was kind of sarcastically posting that tweet. Not because of geography, I think the Carolina schools would be more likely to throw a fit about the travel than KU. I think they'd make an exception for Texas. Not sure about KU.

You still don't get it, do you?

Are there no airports in Kansas?

The hole state is an airport

I honestly hope this whole thing never dies out. The fake Dan Beebe twitter feed is hilarious.

DanBeebe Fake Dan Beebe
LARRY SCOTT, YOU'RE MESSING WITH THE DANIMAL NOW. DON'T MESS WITH THE DANIMAL, YOU'LL GET THE HORNS
12 minutes ago

People think that there is going to be a conference that consists entirely of teams along the East coast plus one team 1,000 miles away, but I don't get it. Please enlighten me.

The ACC doesn't need Kansas. They have enough basketball firepower. If they want to round out the conference, they have the rest of the Big East to raid. UCONN is sitting right there. Louisville, is out there. Hell, Cincy would make more sense than Kansas. They are a poor geographic fit, yet they are still 500 miles closer than Lawrence.

You don't get it. The ACC is not going to travel that far to play that school in every sport. It's not just fb and bb. It's soccer, baseball, LAX, field hockey, and so on.

The bigger issue is KU doesn't really add much $$.

This thread has certainly taken a turn for the stupid.

Nice try attempting to start a new thread, but apparently the AIDS is catching.

Start another new thread, but don't tell any of the Jayhawkers about it.

:harumph:

Yeah, I was hoping this thread would be for news/twitter rumors/other articles and not everyone's opinion on what would be best or what should happen.

/sigh

Did you guys see this? Hilarious

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...n=ncaaf-wp5703

Here's a good source for some hard numbers and facts.

Nice story!

Big 12 and Big East combining leftover teams has "Kansas City" written all over it.


You knew nothing good was going to come of anything. We prefer the slow death version of things, herd mentality. Just go with the group, stay safe ... keep a look out for the lion and hope another gazelle get's killed instead of you.

Someone wake Little up and have her sign the papers.

I actually enoyed the article in Yahoo Sports saying that the ACC would be a better fit for Notre Dame than the Big 10. (And before everyone jumps in and yells, I didn't say I agreed)

Wouldn't that be hilarious? The Big 10 waiting all this time for ND to commit to them and then they get spurned! That would be an interesting kick in the 'nads.

Sounds like WVU was declined by both the ACC and SEC. All signs point to Mizzou to the SEC.

I'm on my phone, but I'm assuming this is the piece that KU tards have been parading around that uses google searches for "college football" as a means for determining the number of fans a school has.

Get over it. Kansas has fans.

lol

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7...10920at124.png

Nope. It's doomed.

I would love to see Mizzou to the SEC or B1G with KU and K-State merging with the Big East keeping a tournament in KC.

http://kentuckysportsradio.com/wp-co.../notsofast.jpg

Maybe WVU will be rejected, however, I think the current situation boils down to:
1 - The SEC won't add anybody until Texas A&M is officially in.
2 - Just like they did with Texas A&M, the SEC won't consider an application to any school currently in another conference. WVU would need to leave the Big East first to be considered.