10-06-2011, 12:03 PM | #5701 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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For most of us, this isn't about being right. It's just fun to throw out the speculation. This is like a perpetual July 31st trade deadline.
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10-06-2011, 12:22 PM | #5702 |
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Well...it's a good 50/50 mix right now on the boards...
half of them think...the offer is coming... the other half are ready to pull donor money, switch allegiance and everything else because BYU "dropped the ball"
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10-06-2011, 12:31 PM | #5703 |
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Whitlock tweeting that Ball St. is going to the Big 12 if Missouri joins the SEC.
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10-06-2011, 01:06 PM | #5704 | |
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Don't get me wrong I enjoy this thread and always click on it when there is a new post. I was directing that more at the people that get really bent out of shape about some of the sources being bad when in fact I can't remember one source accurately saying Syracuse/Pitt to the ACC. |
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10-06-2011, 01:07 PM | #5705 |
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Dave Sittler Dave Sittler by dennisdoddcbs Big 12 source: "BYU, West Virginia and Tulane also on list."
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10-06-2011, 01:08 PM | #5706 |
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Tulane?!
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10-06-2011, 01:23 PM | #5707 |
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That made the CUSA board rounds yesterday after it got a mention in an ESPN.com article. Apparently Tulane's academics and large NO market make it an attractive school despite the fact that they're terrible in football and basketball, draw no fans, and have terrible facilities.
*shrug*
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10-06-2011, 01:24 PM | #5708 | |
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Report: Missouri Tigers hope to join SEC, had wanted Big Ten invite most - ESPN Quote:
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10-06-2011, 02:39 PM | #5709 |
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The Big 12 seems like their trying to just throw darts at the wall in rebuilding the conference.
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10-06-2011, 02:43 PM | #5710 | |
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not good math . if 2 schools are added to the west, only 1 school would move east not 2. that is the problem. Alabama's 2 big rivals would then be in the east. And therefore Bama would lose thier yearly game with Tennessee. (Clearly they would keep Auburn under this scenario.) |
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10-06-2011, 02:45 PM | #5711 | |
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PowerMizzou.com reporting that the Birmingham report saying votes weren't there for Mizzou is incorrect. Says Mizzou will be accepted if it decides to move.
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This is frightening if you're Mizzou. Definitely not an upgrade compared to what was lost. Also spans a wider geographic area than the SEC, which is contrary to the tight geographic area that the B12 was trying to maintain. Last edited by Mizzou B-ball fan : 10-06-2011 at 02:48 PM. |
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10-06-2011, 02:47 PM | #5712 |
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Clearly next up for the Big 12 is to invite McGill University. I mean so what if they are Canadian!
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10-06-2011, 03:02 PM | #5713 | |
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BYU would be the long trip, but the other schools considered are closer to Columbia, MO than Georgia, Florida and South Carolina in the SEC. Louisville - 384 Cincinnati - 465 Morgantown, WV - 738 New Orleans -786 Athens - 736 Columbia, SC - 870 Gainesville, FL - 1008 Even with BYU, it it only 200 miles farther to Provo than it is to Gainesville.
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10-06-2011, 03:03 PM | #5714 |
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OMG....if this is true...I might walk away from BYU as a fan just for the clear fact of messing it up...
The rumors are out of control but it is coming from multiple directions. BYU is off the BIG12 list as of last week. Now I do not know what to make of this. Did BYU want to much? Do they see the conference going down and not resurrecting. I am of the camp BYU needed the Big12 as much as they needed BYU...this actually hurts, we are always going to be on the outside looking in when it comes to bowls or anything else.
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10-06-2011, 03:27 PM | #5715 | |
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Sure, because Mizzou sits at the center of the conference. But if you judge end-to-end, it's not even remotely similar. Longest distance if Mizzou were to join would likely be the Gainesville, FL to Columbia, MO as you cited. Longest trip in the new B12 would be over 1,900 miles (Morgantown, WV to Provo, UT), nearly double the longest SEC trip. Now, obviously the B12 could add Tulane, but I'm not sure the fans/media would be able to stop laughing quick enough to actually remeasure those distances. Last edited by Mizzou B-ball fan : 10-06-2011 at 03:29 PM. |
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10-06-2011, 04:03 PM | #5716 |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporting that Chuck Neinas visit to Mizzou tomorrow has been postponed indefinitely. Pretty good sign Mizzou is done talking, which isn't a surprise.
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10-06-2011, 04:32 PM | #5717 | |
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I would love to have Tulane on the schedule. Every couple of years I would have a football road trip that I could sell as a huge must see game. Girlfriend doesn't know the difference between Tulane and Texas or OU. New Orleans we sure be a lot of fun though! |
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10-06-2011, 04:35 PM | #5718 |
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It's silly. Your wish list should look like this if you're the Big XII (which may mean you're not actually allowed to have a "wish list"):
TCU BYU WVirginia Louisville SMU? Rice? Houston? Tulane? WTFU? SI
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10-06-2011, 04:52 PM | #5719 |
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10-06-2011, 04:53 PM | #5720 |
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I would root like hell for WTFU if it existed.
Lets make it Wake The Forest University. I'm on that train. |
10-06-2011, 06:20 PM | #5722 | |
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It would be a dream come true if BYU ended up in the Sun Belt. Fitting place for them. |
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10-06-2011, 11:33 PM | #5723 |
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My Chapel Hill friends relay the talk of the town - Notre Dame indeed is willing and ready to join the ACC, even as early as the 2012 football season, but they want some kind of say in team #16. ND wants to join with a Penn State, a Texas, or other similar-statured school, and definitely does not want to be seen as tagging along with a Rutgers or a UConn. ND can wait as long as they need to, but if a team like PSU said they'd move to the ACC, there would be a presser tomorrow morning. As is stands now, ND can wait comfortably on their mountain of money as long as they want.
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10-06-2011, 11:50 PM | #5724 | |
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The ACC needs to send a lawyer to South Bend to explain what "Grants of Rights" mean, then. Penn State literally is worthless until 2027 at the earliest. |
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10-06-2011, 11:54 PM | #5725 | |
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This is why I love ND. They can join the Big Ten and be with these schools they seem to want to be attached to, but they refuse. They want to be catered to and the Big Ten won't do it. |
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10-07-2011, 12:00 AM | #5726 |
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I think you overestimate the Big-10 here
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10-07-2011, 03:05 AM | #5727 |
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10-07-2011, 07:45 AM | #5728 |
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I was on the Acela coming back from DC, and as I was getting ready to get off the train in NYC, I ran into ND bball coach Mike Brey, up here on a recruiting trip. We shot the shit for a few minutes and he told me he's worried about where they (as a basketball program) fall, and one thing he's sure about is that ND will never join a football conference.
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10-07-2011, 08:30 AM | #5729 |
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10-07-2011, 08:35 AM | #5730 |
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Why not send Alabama and Auburn east and Mizzou and aTm go west?
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10-07-2011, 08:36 AM | #5731 | |
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The hangup right now is that Alabama wants to keep their yearly game with Tennessee and that wouldn't happen if Mizzou goes into the West division. The one that Blade is showing is the one preferred at this point. |
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10-07-2011, 08:42 AM | #5732 | |
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We discussed that yesterday. Leaves an unbalanced conference. That only becomes feasible if the SEC goes to 16, not 14.
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10-07-2011, 10:20 AM | #5733 | |
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10-07-2011, 10:23 AM | #5734 |
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Yeah, I think the ACC would be OK with a partial non-conference schedule for football (say, a minimum 3 games against ACC teams or something) and parking their other sports in the ACC as full-time members.
Only the Big 10 seems to be completely against that. Probably SEC too, although I've never really heard them linked with the SEC.
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10-07-2011, 10:59 AM | #5735 |
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10-07-2011, 11:03 AM | #5736 |
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ND just got a cherry hockey conference deal with Hockey East. Less conference games and they get to air their games on NBC and Versus. Taking that is a good indication they are not joining the Big Ten any time soon because they'd have to give it up to join the Big Ten hockey conference.
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10-07-2011, 11:16 AM | #5737 | |
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10-07-2011, 11:31 AM | #5738 |
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They can beat up on FSU's hockey team all they want.
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10-07-2011, 11:52 AM | #5739 |
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Pat Jones (former OSU football coach) reporting on his radio show that Mizzou and SEC have reached full agreement on all terms.
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10-07-2011, 01:30 PM | #5740 |
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Guy on the Dawgman boards that is very well connected (good friends with Dan Beebe among others) is claiming he's heard that BYU lost their chance at the Big-"12" when they wavered, and that the conference has moved on to other targets.
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10-07-2011, 01:38 PM | #5741 |
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That's what MacroGuru said he was reading a couple of days ago, I believe.
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10-07-2011, 01:44 PM | #5742 | |
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More information is coming out and it appears Sunday play was actually a major issue in everything.....Big12 wasn't willing to concede on it and BYU would never ever concede on it. Who knows though...I will look at it this way...if ND joins a conference and we are out, it will signal the end of BYU Football and athletics as you know it...if ND stays indy, BYU will stay and enjoy their ride, good or bad...
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10-07-2011, 04:16 PM | #5743 |
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Speaking of Notre Dame:
Press reports state that Pittsburgh and Notre Dame are angling for the Big 10 to give them an invite: The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search Ok, back in 1939.
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10-08-2011, 09:10 AM | #5744 |
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It was mentioned before. OU/OSU will likely take the opportunity to look at other conferences if Mizzou leaves for the SEC......
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10-08-2011, 09:21 AM | #5745 |
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The University of Chicago is leaving the Big 10? Good heavens!
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10-08-2011, 12:47 PM | #5746 | |
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Local KC radio reporting......
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10-08-2011, 01:15 PM | #5747 |
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Big Ten done for now.
Big Ten expansion not on radar, commissioner Jim Delany says - ESPN Big East looking to add. Big East leaders discuss conference expansion, according to report - ESPN I think the only way the Big East survives is by grabbing from the lesser conferences. I don't think teams from a major conference want in on a sinking ship.
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10-08-2011, 04:52 PM | #5748 |
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That came from a Brett McMurphy tweet. He is usually pretty decent, but he has his nose up the Big East basketball programs' behinds. I'd take anything that he says about the football schools with a grain of salt. |
10-08-2011, 05:02 PM | #5749 |
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Mizzou doing their best to play their way out of an invite to any conference. I guess its good that they are probably more after our tv coverage than our football program. K-State will probably end up being an 8 or 9 win team but Mizzou looks like they have no heart at all.
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10-08-2011, 05:14 PM | #5750 | |
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