BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

This. We're seeing this already in hockey (save a few outliers like the Alaska schools), which. Or something I'beve advocated here befzore, some sort of umbrella organization that governs sports not offered by a P5 league, like the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation takes in Pac 12, Mountain West, Big West, WAC and WCC members in men's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's water polo, etc. I'm guessing there's similar groups in other areas as well. If not, there should be.

 

If the SEC were to poach ACC schools, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami would just be infill. The conference already reaches those markets. Great schools, excellent athletics but that just splits the pie even more thinly.

North Carolina and Virginia match the profile of the majority of the conference: the largest public universities in each state. Only Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mississippi State (three legacies) and now Texas A&M are outliers. Plus, you'd have the Charlotte/Triad/Raleigh market, plus Richmond/Hampton Roads/DC.

But I doubt the SEC could pry just two schools away, given that Carolina has longstanding rivalries with Duke, State and Wake Forest, plus Virginia-VT.

It's either going to be none or back to the old Southern Conference days.

 

Whatever icky things you want to say about UNC’s athletic department (many of them true) it actually does feel a high degree of loyalty to its conference and especially the in-state schools it is partnered with. A huge contrast from Texas.

 

I think that the ACC's grant of rights really limits the possibility of adding any ACC schools. It's all well and good to say "Anything's negotiable", but the amount of money it would require to buy their top schools out would be insanely prohibitive, all other issues aside.

 

I think football should just no longer be part of the NCAA, and let the chips fall.

 

LOL ... one might argue UNC looks at its conference very similarly to the way Texas looks at its ... in the possessive.

 

Not anymore. UT is just another bottom half of the division team now... although that shouldn't feel all that new to them by now.

 

ROFL.

 

Another Trump-slurping shithead.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article248350395.html

 

Savage. Performance art in the Texas Senate.

2-7 actually. And that "200, 225 million", like there might be another 25 million in his other pants or something.