(12-15-2017 10:53 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 08:28 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 04:19 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 03:49 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 12:42 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  If the House of Mouse owns the media rights to nearly every power school, would they consider "recommending" schools to shift around and create an 8-team playoff? Traditional and/or regionalized conferences + ND, no guaranteed playoff spots. I understand that some of these schools wouldn't be happy to move, but perhaps they could be convin$ed.

PAC: Washington, Washington St, Oregon, Oregon St, California, Stanford, USC, UCLA
SWC: Arizona, Arizona St, Utah, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, Arkansas
Big 8: Colorado, Kansas, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa St
SEC: LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi St, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Florida
B1G: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan St, Ohio St
ACC: Florida St, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Clemson, North Carolina, North Carolina St, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, Maryland
East: Miami, Louisville, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Penn St, Rutgers, Syracuse, Boston College
Independent: Notre Dame

I've said it on here before, but South Carolina will never, ever go back to the ACC under any circumstances. If we got kicked out of the SEC we would go to whatever version of the Big 12 remained, or go Independent/American before doing that.

Are you $ure?

South Carolina tried to re-join the ACC twice and we know for a fact that Eric Hyman was holding talks with Swofford about that possibility too.

Yeah, that never actually happened.

Whatever sort of rumors got floated only got floated because Hyman was a part of the old UNC network and he was throwing his friends Swofford and Cunningham a bone when it looked like the ACC was in trouble. Hyman did some good things but frequently clashed with the BOT and donors for many reasons.

The other two times SC made overtures were under different ADs that also had old sympathetic ties to the ACC (like King Dixon, who was a disaster as AD and was forced by the BOT into accepting the SEC deal).

It will never, ever, ever, happen.

1) What happened happened, it's nothing to be ashamed of.
2) I know for a fact that Hyman was meeting with Swofford about South Carolina re-joining the ACC. BTW it was before Cunningham came to Carolina.
3) If ESPN decides to pay for South Carolina to move to the ACC...it will happen.
4) All that being said, I think that at this particular point in time, it is unlikely.