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Sun Jul 01 2012, 10:58 PM #1Hokie!
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SEC on CBS
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Sun Jul 01 2012, 11:43 PM #2
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Nice. Here's the ACC's new theme song. It has more cowbell than Mississippi State could ever dream of:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE
Originally Posted by LSU Tiger
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Mon Jul 02 2012, 11:43 AM #3
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Where is VT and NCSU? Originally Posted by LSU Tiger
"I am an optimist, it does not seem much use being anything else." -Winston Churchill
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Wed Jul 04 2012, 03:12 AM #4Hokie!
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For the time being stuck in the fifth/sixth most relevant football conference in America.
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Wed Jul 04 2012, 09:34 AM #5
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6th? really? SEC fans really make it hard to like what would usually be an easy conference to like based solely on the product on TV on Saturdays. i really hope us, Clemson and FSU can all finish in the top 15 this year with at least one of us in the national title discussion in November. no one trashes the B1G, yet they have produced exactly the same number of top 4 BCS teams in the past 5 years as the ACC...i don't get why it's so important for people to dump all over the ACC. sure, we've had a tough run of it, but we still have programs like FSU, Clemson, Miami, and VT along with GT, UNC, NCSU, Pitt and BC as a nice middle tier historically. we control TV markets from NC to Boston. We were just invited to the BCS as an At-Large even though we weren't a top 10 team. Originally Posted by LSU Tiger
all the ACC needs to do is win a handful of games each year that they have been losing recently, and all will be well. we're still producing top 25 quality, just not top 5-10 like we need to.
also, the ACC has a seat at the table for revenue sharing discussions, while the Pac12 does not. The ACC just ensured the Orange Bowl would be in the Big6, not the other way around. honestly, because the ACC won't be sharing the game with another champ, it's likely the ACC will make more money from the OB than any other conference will make from their champ bowl tie in (though, admittedly, conferences like the SEC will more than make up for it with multiple spots in the Big6 most years, but still).
long rant shortened: The ACC is one of the Big5, and not necessarily #5. that will be determined by on field results over the next 14 years, not bloggers and message board posters."This no more resembles that than something unlike something else resembles that." - Loosely quoting PHNC
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Wed Jul 04 2012, 04:37 PM #6Hokie!
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Dude it was a joke. Sorry if it did not come off that way.
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Wed Jul 04 2012, 06:08 PM #7Hokie!
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Things have been "edgy" around here since you guys started dating the B-12. Originally Posted by LSU Tiger
"You start a conversation you can't even finish it
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything
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Thu Jul 05 2012, 12:08 AM #8Hokie!
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I can understand that. I too have reservations about that. But let's face the fact that it is nothing more than business. Why would the SEC strike a deal for a bowl game with the ACC? It makes no sense. It would allow you to recruit in our territory and the opposite is what we want. Also our new conference bowl match up puts our teams on television throughout Texas. While that might not shadow North Carolina and Virginia (I do not know), it is pretty significant. And there is so much high school football talent in Texas that Texas A&M and UT could not take all the instate prospects even if they wanted to.
My view (I'm not on Mike Slive's speed dial) is that the SEC is finished moving to the west and that suits the hell out of me, because I never wanted Oklahoma or Texas to begin with. Sometime in the future the SEC will want to add two more and alphabetically NC State, UNC, UVa, and VT will be the first choices - but only one from each state. Maryland could also enter the mix, but only as a fall-back choice.
As I have always stated on this board I am not an insider and do not have any sort of confidential information. But all my life my instincts have proved to be pretty accurate.Last edited by LSU Tiger; Thu Jul 05 2012 at 12:29 AM.
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Thu Jul 05 2012, 06:42 AM #9Hokie!
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No doubt, and my gut agrees with what you posted. It's the most logical path.
"You start a conversation you can't even finish it
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?"
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