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I'm amazed that this has all blown up to the ridiculousness it has. Actually, I'm not.
One moron on a West Virginia message board throws out a "rumor", one blog runs with it, people that read the blog run with it on twitter, multiple blogs pick it up, the mouthbreathers of the mainstream media take it as "multiple confirmed reports", and then one moron connected with a school says something stupid, and then you have a blazing fire and everyone freaking the out.
In the offseason, with little else to discuss, let's all hail the end of the world. Screw logic.
- Florida State had no interest in Texas coming to the ACC, so now they're supposedly ready to jump-ship and go to the Big 12, where they'll go from being a big fish in a little pond to being a smaller fish than Texas or Oklahoma.
- The only person from Florida State that has said anything which people are using as confirmation is someone who was easily proven to have no idea what he was talking about, and the only person from Clemson is the coach, who also said nothing about any discussions.
- There is a zero-percent chance that Virginia Tech leaves without Virginia given the history of what the Virginia legislature did for them, and the even greater power that UVa wields in the state.
- Now we have everyone throwing things at the wall hoping they stick. I see crap like on MGoBlog of rumors and ideas of Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia to the Big Ten; Miami to the Big 12 with FSU; the crap commuter school Louisville to the ACC; NC State to the SEC; Baylor to the ACC on here? seriously?!?; Boise State to the Pac-12; and so on.
- The power of the ACC is concentrated with FSU, Miami, Virginia Tech, and you can argue Clemson. With the Big 12 it's Texas and Oklahoma, and with Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas A&M leaving, how the hell is this is a better football conference top to bottom?!?
- Florida State and Clemson are supposedly going to give up playing conference games in all sports in the eastern timezone to take their baseball, volleyball, swimming, track, and every sport to Ames, IA, Waco, Texas, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Manhattan, Kansas, Lubbock, Texas, Lawrence, Kansas, Dallas, Texas, Norman, Oklahoma, and Austin, Texas. If this is supposedly for money, the cost to take every team out there instead of having a good number of bus trips is going to be insane - the closest school is WVU at 830 miles from Tallahessee, and the next closest is friggin' Dallas.
I'm still waiting for all of those confirmed reports last year of Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech to the Pac-12, and Missouri to the Big Ten, and Rutgers to the Big Ten, and Texas to the Big Ten. This is the Frank the Tank and PurpleBookCat game plan. Throw enough crap at a wall that maybe something will stick.
This is all mind-boggling that everyone is acting like the sky is falling. The Big 12 and SEC have an agreement to have their champions play in a bowl game... if there was a four-team playoff with the conference champions in the top-6 format, this would have happened how many times in the past 10 years? zero?
We are far better off in the ACC, and with its number of large state schools, and ones with significant football tradition, it'll always have a seat at the table.
One moron on a West Virginia message board throws out a "rumor", one blog runs with it, people that read the blog run with it on twitter, multiple blogs pick it up, the mouthbreathers of the mainstream media take it as "multiple confirmed reports", and then one moron connected with a school says something stupid, and then you have a blazing fire and everyone freaking the out.
In the offseason, with little else to discuss, let's all hail the end of the world. Screw logic.
- Florida State had no interest in Texas coming to the ACC, so now they're supposedly ready to jump-ship and go to the Big 12, where they'll go from being a big fish in a little pond to being a smaller fish than Texas or Oklahoma.
- The only person from Florida State that has said anything which people are using as confirmation is someone who was easily proven to have no idea what he was talking about, and the only person from Clemson is the coach, who also said nothing about any discussions.
- There is a zero-percent chance that Virginia Tech leaves without Virginia given the history of what the Virginia legislature did for them, and the even greater power that UVa wields in the state.
- Now we have everyone throwing things at the wall hoping they stick. I see crap like on MGoBlog of rumors and ideas of Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia to the Big Ten; Miami to the Big 12 with FSU; the crap commuter school Louisville to the ACC; NC State to the SEC; Baylor to the ACC on here? seriously?!?; Boise State to the Pac-12; and so on.
- The power of the ACC is concentrated with FSU, Miami, Virginia Tech, and you can argue Clemson. With the Big 12 it's Texas and Oklahoma, and with Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas A&M leaving, how the hell is this is a better football conference top to bottom?!?
- Florida State and Clemson are supposedly going to give up playing conference games in all sports in the eastern timezone to take their baseball, volleyball, swimming, track, and every sport to Ames, IA, Waco, Texas, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Manhattan, Kansas, Lubbock, Texas, Lawrence, Kansas, Dallas, Texas, Norman, Oklahoma, and Austin, Texas. If this is supposedly for money, the cost to take every team out there instead of having a good number of bus trips is going to be insane - the closest school is WVU at 830 miles from Tallahessee, and the next closest is friggin' Dallas.
I'm still waiting for all of those confirmed reports last year of Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech to the Pac-12, and Missouri to the Big Ten, and Rutgers to the Big Ten, and Texas to the Big Ten. This is the Frank the Tank and PurpleBookCat game plan. Throw enough crap at a wall that maybe something will stick.
This is all mind-boggling that everyone is acting like the sky is falling. The Big 12 and SEC have an agreement to have their champions play in a bowl game... if there was a four-team playoff with the conference champions in the top-6 format, this would have happened how many times in the past 10 years? zero?
We are far better off in the ACC, and with its number of large state schools, and ones with significant football tradition, it'll always have a seat at the table.