2/17/2012 1:12:10 PM

The Big East: Where We'd Rather Have Temple Back Which We Kicked Out For Sucking Dick Than East Carolina

2/22/2012 8:45:04 PM

Someone put a pirate hat on the forever alone guy

Why didn't I think of that

2/22/2012 9:22:49 PM

Hitler finds out ECU not invited to the Big East:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkt5LaXBYWs

2/24/2012 11:14:12 AM

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"Florida International, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Texas San Antonio, Charlotte and Old Dominion will join C-USA giving the league 14 members. However, it's not clear how soon after 2013 Charlotte, which is beginning its football program in 2013, and ODU, currently in the FCS, would be able to compete as a C-USA football member. When completed, Conference USA's new 14-team league is expected to be split into two divisions: East - East Carolina, FIU, Marshall, Southern Miss, UAB, Charlotte and ODU; West - Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Rice, Texas San Antonio, Tulane, Tulsa and UTEP."

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/brett-mcmurphy/18923863

5/2/2012 7:05:26 PM

how else is Charlotte gonna get into the Big Least if they don't join CUSA?

5/2/2012 7:21:13 PM

doesn't matter. football died today.

5/2/2012 9:23:16 PM

Phillip Rivers?

5/2/2012 9:24:18 PM

How is that CUSA better than the A10? I guess football but that basketball league is gonna suck. It will be nice to be in D1A for football on the first go around.

I take that football paRt back - looking at that west division, that is sorry as shit



[Edited on May 2, 2012 at 10:52 PM. Reason : R]

5/2/2012 10:50:26 PM

CUSA is complete shit now. (It wasnt much before, just a feeder conference for the big conferences)

5/3/2012 2:31:09 AM

I've read some rumors in the aftermath of the $2.6 billion TV contract for the Big 12 of Clemson and Florida State going there. Is this just fan-invented bullshit or is there something to it?

5/8/2012 2:11:56 PM

fan invented bullshit.

ND to the ACC after the big east dies? very much real.

5/8/2012 2:13:35 PM

I call dibs on creating the "Two Giga-Conferences With Thirty-Two Teams Each!" thread

Southeast Atlantic Coast Conference
B1G XXII

And the west coast will be below sea level when the polar ice caps melt so fuck them

5/8/2012 3:12:24 PM

actually the East Coast, being on an Amero-trailing edge plate, would be underwater before the west coast

wonder what kind of rivalry Charlotte and ECU will eventually have

5/8/2012 3:16:18 PM

They UNC-Charlotte/ECU basketball games were pretty intense back in the day.

5/8/2012 4:49:46 PM

At least ecu will have a football rival now.

5/8/2012 5:57:27 PM

Jimbo Fisher might like to be in the Big 12.

5/13/2012 12:20:07 AM

^yeah http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--florida-state-trustee-sparks-firestorm-with-desire-to-join-big-12.html'

fuck em if they leave, they're not an original ACC school anyway

although they're more 'original' than BC, VT, MIA

5/13/2012 1:08:28 AM

Their years of shitty football are the reason our tv contract pales in comparison to the sec.

If they and miami had been remotely nationally relevant in the last 5 years, the acc would have had a comparable contract to the sec.

5/13/2012 1:16:02 PM

if FSU leaves, i hope the ACC gets Notre Dame not UConn.

If we care at all about academics, we cant take uconn

that and chicago is a short drive from south bend

5/14/2012 12:51:23 AM

^^Are they not relevant now? They're preseason top 10 again.

5/14/2012 8:17:03 AM

they are preseason top 10 every year then they lose to Wake and don't get to play in the championship game.

5/14/2012 8:41:17 AM

Quote :

"Their years of shitty football are the reason our tv contract pales in comparison to the sec. "

"doesn't remember the '90s, when FSU was the only team in the conference that was not shitty"

[Edited on May 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM. Reason : .]

5/14/2012 8:49:28 AM

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-13/sports/os-florida-state-big-12-acc-conference-expansion-20120513_1_acc-warchant-com-fsu?pagewanted=all

Wish my work didn't block radio. I'd like to listen to David Glenn's show at noon for once.

not from the above article but elsewhere:

Quote :

"Of the few who still support FSU staying in the ACC, most cite the number of well-regarded academic institutions within the conference. However, Haggard scoffed at the idea that the ACC somehow helps FSU's academic reputation. "No FSU graduate puts on his resume or interviews for a job saying they are in the same conference as Duke and Virginia," he said. "Conference affiliation really has no impact on academics.""

Finally, we found a college administrator that has an ounce of common sense.

[Edited on May 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM. Reason : .]

5/14/2012 10:45:02 AM

ACC never had the infrastructure to compete with the SEC or Big Ten in terms of football deal. FSU never had much in common with the flagship ACC schools anyway. If they can get more money for their football machine then they should go for it.

Quote :

"If we care at all about academics, we cant take uconn"

Curious why you say that? UConn is 58th nationally now and higher than Pitt, Syracuse, Clemson, Va Tech, NC State and FSU. Surely you're not judging an institutions academic prestige on their basketball program are you?

[Edited on May 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM. Reason : X]

5/14/2012 11:33:33 AM

probably because UCONN is banned next year because of their student graduation rates.

5/14/2012 12:02:43 PM

Quote :

" "doesn't remember the '90s, when FSU was the only team in the conference that was not shitty""

No, that's exactly my point. they (along with miami, clemson, and vt) were supposed to be the powerhouse teams in this twelve team super league. None of them have competed for a national championship and are not really of any relevance nationally. That's why the acc deal isn't as good as they think it should be, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUCKED. Not some crackpot idea about catering to the nc schools.

5/14/2012 12:15:54 PM

Quote :

"Are they not relevant now? They're preseason top 10 again."

it's such a joke that this keeps happening.

5/14/2012 12:20:03 PM

^ agreed. It's absurd that the "pollsters" never learn, yet they keep getting burned every year.

Quote :

"saying they are in the same conference as Duke and Virginia"

Thank God UNC was not mentioned for once

5/14/2012 12:45:56 PM

Fine Florida State, you wanna get nuts? LET'S GET NUTS

FSU and Miami/Clemson (and Louisville and Cincinatti) to Big XII
NC State and VPI to SEC
MD (and Rutgers) to B1G 10

ND, UConn, South Florida to ACC

5/14/2012 1:30:14 PM

TOB might be able to win 2 games a year in the SEC

5/15/2012 1:17:28 AM

Quote :

"No, that's exactly my point. they (along with miami, clemson, and vt) were supposed to be the powerhouse teams in this twelve team super league. None of them have competed for a national championship and are not really of any relevance nationally. That's why the acc deal isn't as good as they think it should be, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUCKED. Not some crackpot idea about catering to the nc schools."

And to compound that... if those teams were any good they should be cruising to undefeated seasons in the lowly, lowly ACC.

5/15/2012 7:57:23 AM

actually, at least 75% of them wouldn't, because for one of them to go undefeated requires three of the others to lose

and when did Clemson get foisted up as one of these alleged super teams? did I miss that meeting? Danny Ford left the building in the 1980s and all Clemson has had since is Bowden blowing it with a loss late every year and giving up 70 points to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl

the Clemson fanbase is just as much out of touch with reality when it comes to where they think they are compared to their actual level of play as Texas A&M fans are

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM. Reason : /]

5/15/2012 8:51:40 AM

Civil wars inside a fanbase are beautiful things...

http://floridastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1365495

5/15/2012 9:51:28 AM

Clemson has been better than fsu and miami recently. Also please remind me of another acc team that has had a national championship in football in the last 50 years.

5/15/2012 11:07:03 AM

GT shared it in 1990

5/15/2012 11:08:21 AM

justin pwnt.

5/15/2012 11:09:51 AM

The only schools to win football Nat titles are Clemson, FSU, Maryland, GTech, Miami.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM. Reason : how the eff did I miss the GTech pwnt. and Maryland is 59 years ago.]

5/15/2012 12:32:27 PM

all this talk of the ACC breaking up is nonsense

5/23/2012 11:42:45 AM

lol like georgia tech will ever win another bowl game with paul johnson as their coach.

also pwnt

5/23/2012 11:48:37 AM

Quote :

"all this talk of the ACC breaking up is nonsense"

It's just getting old. If they're going to do anything, just go ahead and get it over with. It's fucking annoying.

5/23/2012 11:53:44 AM

seriously its not going to happen.

even if the likes of FSU and some other teams leave, ESPN would pay a shit ton of money for a basketball league with UNC & Duke. (and Pitt and Cuse and all those other teams like NCSU)

5/23/2012 11:55:22 AM

Quote :

" seriously its not going to happen."

Ok, well that clears it up. Thanks.

5/23/2012 12:19:26 PM

Quote :

"even if the likes of FSU and some other teams leave, ESPN would pay a shit ton of money for a basketball league with UNC & Duke. (and Pitt and Cuse and all those other teams like NCSU) "

Ah, so in other words we really are the Big East now.

[Edited on May 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2012 12:44:15 PM

Quote :

"Chris Level ?@ChrisLevel TCU AD spoke at a breakfast here in Lbk this morning, said the once dead Big 12 now has schools like FSU, Clemson and Miami trying to get in"

5/23/2012 1:00:46 PM

No we are the acc. Only now without delusions of being a football power broker.

5/23/2012 1:02:33 PM

Quote :

"all this talk of the ACC breaking up is nonsense"

Feels like something that was cooked up just to give sports talk people something to fixate on for their 3 hours shifts.

5/23/2012 1:03:46 PM

If getting miami out of the conference means losing fsu and clemson, I think I'm okay with that.

5/23/2012 2:18:01 PM

Quote :

"Big 12 now has schools like FSU, Clemson and Miami trying to get in"

who says the Big 12 would want them? especially Clemson

5/23/2012 2:20:11 PM

Well they took wvu. clemson is the same thing, just a couple states away.

5/23/2012 2:24:13 PM