Texas, Oklahoma reach out to the SEC

[Alsacs]

Aka what I have been saying.
Florida State is loose block on the ACC Jenga board.

If a conference wants to come after the ACC go after Florida State.

 

[storange]

That too was one of my darkest days. Though, I will say, the sandwich & wrap options, specifically the spinach & tomato basil wraps, are not too shabby. At our Whitesboro BD, they literally stack a quarter pound of meat on & then ask “is that good, or do you want more?”. Couple that with dollar-off Wednesdays &, IMO, anyone who’s driving the extra half-mile down Oriskany Blvd. to Subway is a moron.

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Amazing thing about Justin is now he is playing golf in the Olympics

 

[SU94]

Aka what I have been saying.
Florida State is loose block on the ACC Jenga board.

If a conference wants to come after the ACC go after Florida State.

No doubt and this is an open advertisement. Thrasher (FSU's President) should have left the direct line for the new Chancellor's Office.

That said, this Thrasher guy (who is retiring) is scapegoating FSU's struggles which happened on his watch. The Noles' demise these last five years (and I said this about 37 pages back) has nothing to do (or at least very little) with money. This was a power struggle, one that wore everyone involved out, including Jimbo, who took a better offer to escape the disfunction (yes, Jimbo was also getting divorced).

If FSU can clean up its back of house, there is no reason to believe that they won't win again. They might not (perhaps likely don't) have the right head coach for that, but all they need to do is overcome Clemson.

But fixing those semi-major issues is NOTHING compared to having to best Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, etc. in the SEC. Or even Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin in the Big 10. Choose wisely, FSU. Don't fall for the quick high you'd get, the ego trip. It would not be worth it in the long run.

(Sidenote: If FSU ever hit the escape hatch and took a B1G invite, they would be ridiculed/defamed/shamed in Southern Football circles here and forever more. It would be remarkably counterproductive, no matter the size of the checks they'd receive)

 

[WoadBlue]

Aka what I have been saying.
Florida State is loose block on the ACC Jenga board.

If a conference wants to come after the ACC go after Florida State.

That is because the average FSU booster lives 24/7/365 with high octane envy of how much Florida has that FSU can never have.

And they tend to be very dull, learning nothing. They will learn nothing from Aggies galore, almost unanimously, bemoaning the fact that they hate to lose not being in a different league from Texas, because with Texas, A&M is always the little brother, always lesser. Beating Texas in football 6 years in a row could never change that. Tommy Tuberville led Auburn to beat Bama 6 in a row, and Auburn remained little brother in Bama's shadow.

You think FSU boosters are neurotic now? if in the SEC, they will soon be lampooned endlessly on SEC Shorts for being crazier and less realistic than anybody.

 

[elimunelson]

Aka what I have been saying.
Florida State is loose block on the ACC Jenga board.

If a conference wants to come after the ACC go after Florida State.

and...do what? Pay off 15 years of GOR? I haven't seen the roadmap that financially makes sense for anyone to leave now the ACC.

If you are telling me that ESPN will orchestrate conference musical chairs and want to pick winners of the annual payout sweepstakes i'm all ears.

 

[Hoo's That]

and...do what? Pay off 15 years of GOR? I haven't seen the roadmap that financially makes sense for anyone to leave now the ACC.

If you are telling me that ESPN will orchestrate conference musical chairs and want to pick winners of the annual payout sweepstakes i'm all ears.

If ESPN is doing that then we're surely on the road to play-for-pay.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

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[DoctorBombay]

This brings to mind that ancient curse: "May you get what you want".

 

[Alsacs]

My Daughter is at Yale. Agreed Modern is the best pie in town

Best pizza in the nation.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Alsacs]

and...do what? Pay off 15 years of GOR? I haven't seen the roadmap that financially makes sense for anyone to leave now the ACC.

If you are telling me that ESPN will orchestrate conference musical chairs and want to pick winners of the annual payout sweepstakes i'm all ears.

Florida State won’t stay just because of the GOR.

You are comfortable with the status quo schools like Florida State aren’t.

 

[Hoo's That]

Best pizza in the nation.

Must be a wood-fired oven judging by the burn marks. Uh-uh.

 

[Alsacs]

Must be wood-fired oven judging by the burn marks. Uh-uh.

Modern Apizza | Modern Apizza

modernapizza.com

It’s basically a stones throw from the Yale campus.qqy
Best pizza I ever had and New Haven has a bunch.

 

[Hoo's That]

Modern Apizza | Modern Apizza

modernapizza.com

It’s basically a stones throw from the Yale campus.qqy
Best pizza I ever had and New Haven has a bunch.

I don't wear a wool ski cap in the summer, so I'm not impressed by it. I'd rather eat Sbarro's than anybody's wood-fired brick oven pizza. Even if that one was from a gas-fired oven, there was nothing in that picture that makes me think it's any better than the pizza I can get from just about any local pizza place on LI. This one is typical.

 

[Cuse#1]

I say if we're going to 16 as well then in this order 1.Baylor
2. Okie st
3. WVU
4. MAYBE Kansas 4 obvious reasons

 

[Cuse#1]

The BT is not amenable to private schools. And the BT now is desperate to catch the SEC in football. Syracuse football is far from peak, and NY produces very few to players. I don't see the BT wanting Syracuse. I think that to try to catch the SEC, the BT will swallow that AAU fetish and offer both Clemson and FSU as well as try to squeeze ND in as it once squeezed ND out.

If FSU & Clemson leave I am done with college football and the greed that is driving it right now And what happened to this iron clad supposedly Thing that the ACC has in place so schools cannot leave ? Or is that just another thing that schools go to court for and get out of it

 

[adk(roc)CUSE]

This is all so very tiring and sad. "The end is nigh" is the mood. Whatever is left I won't like it. I'll still watch Cuse when I can. I've never missed the old eastern independent days more. And ironically we'll end up playing Navy, Army and East Carolina again...

 

[Cuse#1]

Been saying this since this whole thing started. Some negative Nancy's on this board act like the ACC demise is imminent and the GOR is just a distraction. Yet here we have both UT/OU having to bide their time precisely because of the GOR. The ACC has maybe 5-7 years to figure out strategy that will keep the conference alive. If they do some forward-thinking, innovative maneuvers, we can still come out ahead of this thing. And the fact that good ol' boy Swofford and the Carolina Mafia are no longer steering the ship, is actually a good thing.
In any case, the narrative of imminent ACC doom-n-gloom is totally unwarranted. Some folks need to chill the out a little.

Yes that's what I was thinking about the GOR. The only conference that is in real trouble and probably won't even be a conference much longer is the Big 12 I agree with you if you need to relax

 

[Cuse#1]

the only way it would make sense is if the SEC were able to entice Clemson and someone else big to get to 18, but yeah, I don't see other feasible ways anyone will go over 16, unless you buy the idea that Oregon, USC, Washington and UCLA leave the Pac 12 for the Big 10( I don't).

I don't see that happening Clemson has it too good in the ACC! Even for Clemson it would be very difficult to get thru that schedule year after year.

 

[DocFlanders]

The end may not be around the corner but it’s coming. Even though Clemson has It good in the ACC why wouldn’t they leave to double or triple their money. No brainer. This will get bad for a lot of people and it sucks for college football. Any team with a offer to big 10 or the SEC would be a fool to turn it down at this point. And in some bizarre twist of fate, rutgers landed softly

 

[DocFlanders]

Best pizza in the nation.

Looks delicious but they skimped on the black olives

 

[Moontan]

I don't see that happening Clemson has it too good in the ACC! Even for Clemson it would be very difficult to get thru that schedule year after year.

I could see the ACC offering bonuses for football teams making the playoff/semifinal/final/championship.

There could also be smaller bonuses for making a bowl game, as well as hoops tournament bonuses for making the tournament/sweet-16/final-4/final/championship.

These should help Clemson, FSU and whatever program is hot at that time..

 

[Whitey23]