ACC Links: To expand/realign or not to expand/realign: bloggers ask the question
by Winfield Featherston on Apr 21, 2010 12:15 PM EDT
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the latest debate raging in college football is conference expansion. While we haven't discussed the subject too heavily on this blog, many of our ACC friends have brought it up. Here are some of the highlights from around the ACC blogosphere.
Reviewing the Super-ACC: An ACC Response Plan to Big Ten Expansion - Testudo Times
Ridiculous? Yes. But possibly a requirement, and probably an inevitability.
Why Shouldn't the ACC Be Proactive with Expansion? - Gobbler Country
Why is everyone waiting around for the Big Ten to tip the first expansion domino instead of looking out for themselves?
Big Ten Expansion: Why Stop At 16? - BC Interruption
Why should the Big Ten stop at 16 teams? One way to expand is by simply taking over the Big East football conference and creating an 18 or 20 team super-conference.
Conference Expansion, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and You - Gobbler Country
F4H got a little trippy yesterday on 4/20. What if the Mayans weren't really talking about the physical earth like we know it? What if it was all just a metaphor for callllllage footbawl? People are talking about some crazy stuff, man. Like Ulta-super-mega Conferences. Conferences so big you can see 'em from space.
What are your thoughts on conference expansion and realignment?
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More Xpasion (it's cooler with just an X)
Looks like Syracuse fans would rather be in the ACC than the Big Ten by a wide margin.
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by furrer4heisman on Apr 21, 2010 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
ACC needs to get proactive
ACC better get proactive rather than reactive.
The Big East is almost certainly going to disappear as a FBS FB conference. At least one other – the Big 12 or the ACC is going to get shunted to a 2nd class status.
Right now the ACC leadership should already have formulated who would be their top 6-8 picks to go from 12 to 16.
ACC both has to try to get the best it can and try to make sure it retains what it already has.
I HATE the idea of expansion.
but if things are really as crazy as so many are saying then I say go for the entire big east. Tech used to recruit well in that part of the country and I would like to see CPJ cherry pick from other regions of the country.
by Atlanta's original team on Apr 21, 2010 4:59 PM EDT reply actions
I think only issues...
that are remotely plausible are losing BC to the Big 10 and/or Clemson to the SEC. In which case, plundering the Big East again would be fine. Syracuse should’ve been in the ACC back in 2004 and Louisville would expand our reach into the Bluegrass state and increase our SEC-ACC rivalries.
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Syracuse?
Don’t get me wrong, I love the ‘cuse (I grew up there), but it seems as much of a drag as BC as far as traveling fanbase. Both have good academics and athletics but I think we should be focussing on closer teams. If we are going to 16 (which I don’t think we should) I’d go after Louisville, West Virginia or South Florida from the Big East. Others on my list would be Navy or Eastern Carolina.
Going to 16 with the current 8 conference games being played means you’d only ever play teams from the other division once every 8 years. That’s crap. The BCS conferences should all go to 12 teams and stop all this discussion of superconferences.
12 is fine
I’m just guessing our two most likely casualties in conference realignment will be BC and/or Clemson. Who should we replace them with? ’Cuse is good at academics, hoops, and sometimes football. Louisville is good at hoops, average-bad academics, and sometimes good at football, too.
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Are we looking at 18 to 21 team super
Conferences with East/Central/West divisions? Top 3 teams plus Wild Card in Semi Finals before a Conference Final.
Now we will have The ACC Network and our own channel on Comcast.
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Apr 22, 2010 11:50 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I'm Back
Some of you might remember my old blog “GT Football Ramblings” I’ve relaunched it and weighed in on expansion with a distinctly Southern flavor:
How about the SEC?
This article, http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/13266293/whenever-big-ten-expands-college-football-will-feel-trickledown-effect/rss mentions GT being sucked into the SEC along with Miami, FSU and Clemson. If that’s a possibility, I kinda like the idea… What do you guys think of being in a 16 team SEC?
GT back in the SEC...
would be freaking awesome. Would we win the conference a lot? Maybe not, but the money would improve our program SO much!
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