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

[wabash909]

Panj with a great read on why FSU and Clemson are considering the jump to the Big XII, also uses the term Florida State finds itself in a bit of a pickle.

The Four Team playoff divide breakdown is pretty staggering...

http://www.bringonthecats.com/2012/5/28/3047659/conference-realignment-why-is-this-happening-post-1#storyjump

[Panjandrum]

I had to drop a goEMAW easter egg in there.

[Pete]

Good read, thanks Pan.

I cannot wait for the 30th to get my next round of rumors and deliciousness.

[KITNfury]

I had to drop a goEMAW easter egg in there.

For the record, about a month ago I was reading Mental Floss and found out your name had a meaning. Kinda neato, really.

[CanConfirm]

Summing up the past month in MS Paint:



Love,
CanConfirm

[Pete]

 

[AbeFroman]

CC with the huge debut

[8manpick]

CC with the huge debut

Wow, and stealing cpt crap's nickname too

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[Dugout DickStone]

This rookie is impressive

[KITNfury]

This rookie is impressive

lsoc sock, apparently.

[captaincrap]

CC with the huge debut

Wow, and stealing cpt crap's nickname too

 

[steve dave]

I nicknamed him CanCo after his first post to avoid this very issue

[KITNfury]

I nicknamed him CanCo after his first post to avoid this very issue

My CanCo sowe wheely pulls the hot chicks.

[Katpappy]

This is one of the reasons I like those Texas fans at Shaggybevo...

 Originally Posted by utee94 
Just out of curiosity, what's your school? You're alright by me, unless it's K-State. Then I have no choice but to loathe you (and worship you as my overlord).

[fun muffin]

This is one of the reasons I like those Texas fans at Shaggybevo...

 Originally Posted by utee94 
Just out of curiosity, what's your school? You're alright by me, unless it's K-State. Then I have no choice but to loathe you (and worship you as my overlord).

pfft 

[mcmwcat]

great stuff on your bloggy thing Panjandrum 

amazing how members of the goEMAW culture takes fat lazy journalists to school in troubled times.

[steve dave]

Here's what I got:

The forefront of the conversation in KC this week will be Florida State and Notre Dame, yes, Notre Dame. ND is truly worried about being left out of any 4-team playoff, or any new lucrative bowl games that spawn because of it.

If, somehow, ND breaks the way of the Big XII, this will be huge. It will force Mike Slive (SEC) to hurry up and take either V-Tech, NC St, or UNC almost immediately, making the SEC the first "Super Conference" (16-teams).

Also, look for a conference call with the SEC to announce some sort of "Alliance" to force the Big 10 and PAC-12 to react in terms of the 4-team playoff scenario. This call could happen immediately.

With this being said, there will be some 'homeless' teams and a mad scramble to pick up football Big East members and ACC leftovers.

This is how I see the Big 12 going IF, if we get Notre Dame.
11) ND
12) Georgia Tech (per ND request)
13) FSU
14) Clemson
15) Maryland or Virginia- Big 10 may get Maryland. UVA is a good consolation prize.
16) Louisville- purely political. Mitch McConnell, Senator from KY will make this happen. Think Baylor circa 1996.

Tulane is out, turns out that was bad intell. That was to appease Boren and BGL (Bernadette Grey-Little).

Now here's the golden nugget #1: Some of this info will not be made public until June 20th....that is 5 days after Bowlsby takes over as B12 commish. This coincides with the approximate time that the BCS will be declared DOA.

Golden Nugget #2: Notre Dame and NBC are negotiating right now about a re-do of the Tier 3 rights to make this happen. The Big 12 will be involved in this.

[Spaces]

 

[WildcatNkilt]

Here's what I got:

The forefront of the conversation in KC this week will be Florida State and Notre Dame, yes, Notre Dame. ND is truly worried about being left out of any 4-team playoff, or any new lucrative bowl games that spawn because of it.

If, somehow, ND breaks the way of the Big XII, this will be huge. It will force Mike Slive (SEC) to hurry up and take either V-Tech, NC St, or UNC almost immediately, making the SEC the first "Super Conference" (16-teams).

Also, look for a conference call with the SEC to announce some sort of "Alliance" to force the Big 10 and PAC-12 to react in terms of the 4-team playoff scenario. This call could happen immediately.

With this being said, there will be some 'homeless' teams and a mad scramble to pick up football Big East members and ACC leftovers.

This is how I see the Big 12 going IF, if we get Notre Dame.
11) ND
12) Georgia Tech (per ND request)
13) FSU
14) Clemson
15) Maryland or Virginia- Big 10 may get Maryland. UVA is a good consolation prize.
16) Louisville- purely political. Mitch McConnell, Senator from KY will make this happen. Think Baylor circa 1996.

Tulane is out, turns out that was bad intell. That was to appease Boren and BGL (Bernadette Grey-Little).

Now here's the golden nugget #1: Some of this info will not be made public until June 20th....that is 5 days after Bowlsby takes over as B12 commish. This coincides with the approximate time that the BCS will be declared DOA.

Golden Nugget #2: Notre Dame and NBC are negotiating right now about a re-do of the Tier 3 rights to make this happen. The Big 12 will be involved in this.

Whats this from?

[fun muffin]

Whats this from?

steve motherflippin' dave  that's where

[420seriouscat69]

Fitz, is that you?

Tulane is out, turns out that was bad intell. That was to appease Boren and BGL (Bernadette Grey-Little).

[steve dave]

As an aside, I think the SEC is finding out how unruly a 14-team conference can be and I expect it to get to 16 in the near future. At 14, they're actually looking at basketball schedules where either you don't play everyone in your division twice (that would be 12 games) or you simply won't play a team in the other division at all (that would be 7 more games). To do both of those things is 19 games and they only want to play 18.

At 16 schools, in basketball you play all the schools in your pod twice (six games) and the other 12 schools once (12 games).

In football, you play everyone in your pod (three games), and two teams from each of the other three four-school pods (six games) to play a nine-game season. It's most likely one of the teams you play each season from another pod is an annual opponent so UT and OU play every year in football. This makes life tough on UT because they would pick up OU, Notre Dame and Florida State as its three annual opponents from the other pods. OU's opponents would likely be the same, too.

[Pete]

Whats this from?

That annoying PBC guy on wabash who goes out and grab's stuff from other sites and never, never rough ridin' ever, gives a link or other indication of where the hell it's from.

Typically, it's stuff that was posted here or tweeted out by goEMAWer's first.

[Pete]

As an aside, I think the SEC is finding out how unruly a 14-team conference can be and I expect it to get to 16 in the near future. At 14, they're actually looking at basketball schedules where either you don't play everyone in your division twice (that would be 12 games) or you simply won't play a team in the other division at all (that would be 7 more games). To do both of those things is 19 games and they only want to play 18.

At 16 schools, in basketball you play all the schools in your pod twice (six games) and the other 12 schools once (12 games).

In football, you play everyone in your pod (three games), and two teams from each of the other three four-school pods (six games) to play a nine-game season. It's most likely one of the teams you play each season from another pod is an annual opponent so UT and OU play every year in football. This makes life tough on UT because they would pick up OU, Notre Dame and Florida State as its three annual opponents from the other pods. OU's opponents would likely be the same, too.

I am in complete agreement with Pan when I say that 16 is rough ridin' stupid and will never happen.  ANYONE who projects this happening is not thinking from the perspective of the conference leaders...it's just bullshit that lazy journalists say.

Now...take a guess where SD found this quote....

[EllToPay]

As an aside, I think the SEC is finding out how unruly a 14-team conference can be and I expect it to get to 16 in the near future. At 14, they're actually looking at basketball schedules where either you don't play everyone in your division twice (that would be 12 games) or you simply won't play a team in the other division at all (that would be 7 more games). To do both of those things is 19 games and they only want to play 18.

At 16 schools, in basketball you play all the schools in your pod twice (six games) and the other 12 schools once (12 games).

In football, you play everyone in your pod (three games), and two teams from each of the other three four-school pods (six games) to play a nine-game season. It's most likely one of the teams you play each season from another pod is an annual opponent so UT and OU play every year in football. This makes life tough on UT because they would pick up OU, Notre Dame and Florida State as its three annual opponents from the other pods. OU's opponents would likely be the same, too.

good stuff, sd. keep your sources talking.