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post #51 of 78
6/10/10 at 11:09am
I'd personally love to see Missouri in the SEC, but I guess not.

Speaking of the SEC, there's no way they sit idly by and watch two super-conferences form. So who do they go after? Moving on North Carolina and Virginia/Virginia Tech makes sense geographically, but I can't see them not at least sending feelers out to FSU and Miami.
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post #52 of 78
6/10/10 at 11:24am
Notre Dame may need to read the writing on the wall and suck it up. If they do stay independent while all these mega-conferences pop up, they'll continue playing the service academies and then get elbowed out of Big 10 games when the conference goes to 16 teams.
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post #53 of 78
6/10/10 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
I'd personally love to see Missouri in the SEC, but I guess not.

Speaking of the SEC, there's no way they sit idly by and watch two super-conferences form. So who do they go after? Moving on North Carolina and Virginia/Virginia Tech makes sense geographically, but I can't see them not at least sending feelers out to FSU and Miami.
Clemson and the two Florida schools are locks for consideration (hell most people think Clemson is already a SEC school). I'd toss Georgia Tech out there, but there is something that says they'd be too snobby to join.

But the ACC and Big East have to be proactive. The Big East should think about Kansas (why not make the best b-ball conference better) especially when the Big Ten is drooling over some of the schools. Meanwhile, the ACC could lose it's southern schools to the SEC and the Big Ten might settle for the DC area and steal Maryland.
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post #54 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:01pm
As a West Virginia fan, I'm kinda hoping for a change and kinda not. As with football, I'd like to see them leave the Big East and jump to possibly the SEC.

That being said, with basketball... I'm kinda hoping they stay in the Big East or possibly move to the ACC if we see Florida State and Miami bail for the SEC.
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post #55 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:41pm
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5271438

Welcome to the Pac-10, Colorado.
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post #56 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:41pm
Wow, forgot about Clemson, yeah, they're a natural for the SEC. That would give them both major South Carolina schools. And Georgia Tech does make sense, your reservations aside. Plus, it would keep Clemson/Carolina and Georgia/Tech as annual rivalries.
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post #57 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:47pm
I don't know why people are up in arms about 2 BCS bids. There won't be a BCS at this rate.
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post #58 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:53pm
If the new Pac-16 is unwilling to even have a championship game, they'd be less willing to have an overall playoff. The BCS will be restructured, but it'll stay in place in some form. That title game is too much of a money-maker.
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post #59 of 78
6/10/10 at 12:58pm
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If the new Pac-16 is unwilling to even have a championship game, they'd be less willing to have an overall playoff. The BCS will be restructured, but it'll stay in place in some form. That title game is too much of a money-maker.
Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, and Baylor join the Mountain West Conference and ask for an automatic BCS bid. Boise joins as well. There, with the extra bid from the Pac-16, you have another BCS game. More money.
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post #60 of 78
6/10/10 at 1:11pm
Someone floated the idea on Mike & Mike this morning that Kansas should go independent for basketball.
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post #61 of 78
6/10/10 at 1:19pm
That a really bad idea. With the tv deals coming out of the super-conferences, independents are going to be very precarious positions. Hell Navy football might want to start looking around.

Kansas b-ball might be able to survive for a few years, but a bad year will crush recruiting.
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post #62 of 78
6/10/10 at 1:49pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
If the new Pac-16 is unwilling to even have a championship game, they'd be less willing to have an overall playoff. The BCS will be restructured, but it'll stay in place in some form. That title game is too much of a money-maker.
One thing has nothing to do with the other. The Pac-10 has always frowned on conference championship games. It muddies the water for the bowl games more often than not and that's what they want to avoid. I've heard nothing about them having an issue with an actual playoff though, and that's where this will end up once the superconferences are formed.
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post #63 of 78
6/10/10 at 11:14pm
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Notre Dame may need to read the writing on the wall and suck it up. If they do stay independent while all these mega-conferences pop up, they'll continue playing the service academies and then get elbowed out of Big 10 games when the conference goes to 16 teams.
If the Big and Pac Ten both go mega and gobble up the Big XII, ND would be FOOLS to stay independent. That's a ticket on an express train to irrelevancy - and ND already has a seat on the local.
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post #64 of 78
6/11/10 at 8:48am
Oklahoma's AD said yesterday that they'll follow whatever Texas does.
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post #65 of 78
6/11/10 at 9:20am
So much for those retarded rumors (Texas and Texas A&M to the Big 10 and Oklahoma to the SEC) that were floating around on the radio waves here in Atlanta yesterday. At this rate, I fully expect these guys to start rationalizing an SEC bid being offered to Oregon...
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post #66 of 78
6/11/10 at 12:45pm
Local radio guy had a great statement yesterday about Mizzou not getting the Big 10 invite they were expecting after being the first school to go public about jumping conferences.

"It's like you invited all of your friends over for a party and they all showed up at the neighbor's house."
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post #67 of 78
6/11/10 at 12:53pm
Geographically, Kansans and Missouri would both make sense for the Big 10, and adding Kansas' basketball program would be a real boon for the conference.

Still think Missouri is a natural for the SEC though.
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post #68 of 78
6/11/10 at 1:31pm
I'd love to see the SEC pillage the ACC for Duke, Carolina, Clemson and G-Tech. Getting Carolina and Duke would make them really relevant in the two major sports (and Duke-UK could be a great rivalry).
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post #69 of 78
6/11/10 at 3:48pm
Boise State is moving from the WAC to the Mountain West.
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post #70 of 78
6/11/10 at 5:07pm
One final year in the Big 12 for my Huskers. I suggest we win it.
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post #71 of 78
6/12/10 at 2:41pm
Intersting case for why the Texas and Oklahoma teams are better off in the SEC.
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post #72 of 78
6/13/10 at 4:35pm
One interesting thought to these manueverings is that the Mountain West will become a major player with TCU, Boise St, KU, KSU, and ISU joining up in addition to the Big XII, Big East, and possibly ACC getting raided into irrelevance, if not oblivion.
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post #73 of 78
6/13/10 at 7:00pm
Texas A&M talking to the SEC.
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post #74 of 78
6/14/10 at 6:45pm
Thread Starter 
Texas might stay with the Big 12
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post #75 of 78
6/14/10 at 7:55pm
ESPN crawl is reporting that they have turned down the Pac 10.
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post #76 of 78
6/15/10 at 1:19am
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ESPN crawl is reporting that they have turned down the Pac 10.
Hmmmm....
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post #77 of 78
6/16/10 at 4:51pm
Looks like Utah is going to the Pac-10 as the 12th team.

I imagine they'll do a North division with Utah, Colorado and the Oregon and Washington schools and a South division with the California and Arizona schools.
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post #78 of 78
6/16/10 at 5:27pm
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Looks like Utah is going to the Pac-10 as the 12th team.
"Uhh...what is a 'Ute', Mr. Gambini?"

So the "XII" conference is now 10. Will they become the Big X? Oh, I'd love to be in the "Big X" conference.
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