BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I'm sure a lot of people will dismiss this, but....

I really think the United States is going to break up within 20 years. Lot of reasons that I won't go into here (maybe a separate thread), so will be interesting to see how that will affect some of these universities and conferences, too.

 

Quoted in case the crazee gets pulled.

 

Holy shit, this is a breath-taking level of stupid.

 

The ACC has long coveted Syracuse because of it's ties to NYC. When the govenor of Virginia pushed Virginia Tech into the ACC Syracuse was the school that got bumped. So when the ACC went to 14 Syracuse was the first invitee. I think Pitt got in because the Pittsburgh area has a larger population and higher per capita incomes than West Virginia, making it a more lucrative media market.

I don't think the ACC will dissolve.

However, I can envision scenarios where the football-first schools Florida State, Clemson, Miami and Georgia Tech go to the Big Twelve. Adding those four schools would roughly double the size to the Big 12. if that happens I think that North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia and Virginia Tech would be pounding on the doors of the Big 10 and the SEC to ge a share of the football TV money

Which would Boston College, Pitt, Louisville, Wake Forest, Duke and Syracuse in the ACC. At that point they could expand and pick up UConn, Cinncinnati and have a really good basketball league but I don't think they would get AQ status in football.

 

It was supposed to be Syracuse and UConn in September 2011 but BC's AD blackballed UConn because they wanted the New England market all to itself. Pitt was the backup choice.

And WVU was never under consideration. The ACC would invite Alaska-Fairbanks and Hawaii Tech before WVU. WVU wanted in the ACC when the league started in 1953, in the early 1990s -- every time a round of realignment waves came about, WVU tried to get into the ACC and the ACC said no. The last straw came in 2011 when WVU inquired about getting in and the ACC said no; when the Big 12 came open, WVU jumped on it and never looked back.

 

You have to be pretty dense to not see conferences serve as a base for Hunger Games-type competitions.

 

You get Pat Buchanan's newsletter, huh?

 

Notre Dame will go to any length to be a National Champion again.

 

I hope we don't break up. I hate breakups. They're so emotionally draining.

 

I used to hear the same thing about the state of Michigan.

Still waiting to see the 51st state, "Superior," emerge from Yooperland ...

 

Why stop there? What will that big-ass giant asteroid in 2026 do to Conference USA?

Will polar ice melt force Hawaii out of the Mountain West Conference and into the Atlantis 10?

More germane, will you be able to vote in whatever's left of the dearly departed USA?

 

Stop bringing up AQ status. It's non-existent after next season.