Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

[Pete]

Cincinnati ACC
Connecticut  Big 10 or ACC
Louisville ACC
Pittsburgh Big 10
Rutgers Big 10 or ACC
Syracuse Big 10 or ACC
USF ACC
West Virginia ACC

Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Maryland
Miami
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University

[steve dave]

if we join with the Basketball only Big East schools we can drop our football down to 1AA and dominate 

[Pete]

Notre Dame will go Big 10 as well, IMO.  The writing is on the wall, they have to join a confernece.


Big 10 would love to add ND, UT, OU, and Pitt/Cuse/Rutgers.  

But, I bet they go with ND, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt.

[kso_FAN]

Warming up to the Mountain West, would make for some elite travel.

 

[Stupid Fitz]

Bet the Big 10 goes with Rutgers, Pitt, NC and Duke.  

Don't think they have any interest in BBall, but 

[Pete]

If you are UT and OU, do you go Big 10 or Pac-10?  They'll have the choice.

[steve dave]

Notre Dame will go Big 10 as well, IMO.  The writing is on the wall, they have to join a confernece.


Big 10 would love to add ND, UT, OU, and Pitt/Cuse/Rutgers.  

But, I bet they go with ND, Cuse, Rutgers, Pitt.

yeah, I can see that

[steve dave]

If you are UT and OU, do you go Big 10 or Pac-10?  They'll have the choice.

does UT throw away that ESPN deal they just signed?  Big 10 won't allow it.  They may be able to force it upon the Pac10 though

[Scary Smart]

If the SEC adds A&M, OU, MU & KU, they add the Houston, OKC, St Louis & KC markets, get into Texas for recruiting, add a premier football program along with two solid programs, get their Patsy in KU and adds a premier basketball program that has nation wide appeal.

phoggies

lol

[EMAWmeister]

Let's hope Zenger is proactive. If aTm is gone, we better be next. Want nothing to do with this clusterF conference. Maybe I'm completely wrong. We are a huge national brand. Don't know if you guys in the Midwest realize it. But we are very well known/respected (at least on the east coast) Find it hard to believe we would go to a midmajor conference.

[Stevesie60]

Why the hell aren't we being over-the-top proactive?

Try to get ND, BYU, and Air Force. Then start adding TCU, Arizona, Arizona State, Louisville, Memphis, Houston, etc. until we get to 16. Then in our next few years we start swapping out the weak links for stronger links until we become the most elite conference.

[Pete]

If you are UT and OU, do you go Big 10 or Pac-10?  They'll have the choice.

does UT throw away that ESPN deal they just signed?  Big 10 won't allow it.  They may be able to force it upon the Pac10 though

Good point, and probably THE MOST important factor in this entire equation.

Pac-10 will be deperate...they may let them keep it.   Their commish obviously will want to let UT keep it, but those other schools might be too proud.  We have to pray that the Pac-10 schools are too proud to cave in...it's really our only hope (since we assume that the Big 10 is way too proud).

[Stupid Fitz]

Let's hope Zenger is proactive. If aTm is gone, we better be next. Want nothing to do with this clusterF conference. Maybe I'm completely wrong. We are a huge national brand. Don't know if you guys in the Midwest realize it. But we are very well known/respected (at least on the east coast) Find it hard to believe we would go to a midmajor conference.

 

[Cartierfor3]

Why the hell aren't we being over-the-top proactive?

Try to get ND, BYU, and Air Force. Then start adding TCU, Arizona, Arizona State, Louisville, Memphis, Houston, etc. until we get to 16. Then in our next few years we start swapping out the weak links for stronger links until we become the most elite conference.

would be nice.  won't happen. 

[kso_FAN]

[steve dave]

If you are UT and OU, do you go Big 10 or Pac-10?  They'll have the choice.

does UT throw away that ESPN deal they just signed?  Big 10 won't allow it.  They may be able to force it upon the Pac10 though

Good point, and probably THE MOST important factor in this entire equation.

Pac-10 will be deperate...they may let them keep it.   Their commish obviously will want to let UT keep it, but those other schools might be too proud.  We have to pray that the Pac-10 schools are too proud to cave in...it's really our only hope (since we assume that the Big 10 is way too proud).

yeah, zero percent chance the Big 10 would allow it.  God I wish they would, NU would absolutely crap themselves.  They just fled to get away from Texas and here comes Texas to rule their new roost.  amazing.

[Pete]

Why the hell aren't we being over-the-top proactive?

Try to get ND, BYU, and Air Force. Then start adding TCU, Arizona, Arizona State, Louisville, Memphis, Houston, etc. until we get to 16. Then in our next few years we start swapping out the weak links for stronger links until we become the most elite conference.

If that's what Deloss and OU want.  Not joking, that's all that matters here.

[steve dave]

why on earth are people suggesting AZ and AZ State would join us.  good grief people. 

[kim carnes]

If you are UT and OU, do you go Big 10 or Pac-10?  They'll have the choice.

does UT throw away that ESPN deal they just signed?  Big 10 won't allow it.  They may be able to force it upon the Pac10 though

Good point, and probably THE MOST important factor in this entire equation.

Pac-10 will be deperate...they may let them keep it.   Their commish obviously will want to let UT keep it, but those other schools might be too proud.  We have to pray that the Pac-10 schools are too proud to cave in...it's really our only hope (since we assume that the Big 10 is way too proud).

yeah, zero percent chance the Big 10 would allow it.  God I wish they would, NU would absolutely crap themselves.  They just fled to get away from Texas and here comes Texas to rule their new roost.  amazing.

That would be priceless.

[Pete]

I don't see anyway to avoid UT and OU to the Pac-10 if they can't persuade ND to join them in a "Eat what you Kill" conference.

[steve dave]

I don't see anyway to avoid UT and OU to the Pac-10 if they can't persuade ND to join them in a "Eat what you Kill" conference.

yeah, our only hope is that the Pac 10 won't let Texas have their network.  show some rough ridin' balls Pac 10.  Don't let them walk over you like that.

[Pete]

why on earth are people suggesting AZ and AZ State would join us.  good grief people.  

I know

IF ANYONE ELSE EVEN HINTS THAT ANOTHER CURRENT BCS TEAM WANTS TO LEAVE THEIR BCS CONFERENCE FOR US, THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES (obviously the Big East teams that are left after the ACC and Big 10 gobble them up are the lone exception).

[AppleJack]

Sooooo looks like this is the last season for the Big 12. No way OBz is here to shepherd us through a new conference, right?  

[Stupid Fitz]

Good thing Beebe did all of that work last year to save the conference.  I mean, handshakes are exactly the same as actual contracts.  right?  

[Dr Rick Daris]

who says texas wants anything to do with a mega 16 team conference? i don't know that they do.