NavyDoc69
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-25-2012 07:50 AM)NavyDoc69 Wrote: Is the ACC a DEAD Conference Walking
Yep, just like the Big 12 was dead when Nebraska & Colorado left... oh, wait, no one has actually left the ACC yet!
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ClairtonPanther
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-25-2012 11:10 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (05-25-2012 07:50 AM)NavyDoc69 Wrote: Is the ACC a DEAD Conference Walking
Yep, just like the Big 12 was dead when Nebraska & Colorado left... oh, wait, no one has actually left the ACC yet!
I agree Mark. The media outlets, ah ah I mean bloggers, have def caused a lot of paranoia. I'm just ready for this to be over. I have a feeling we'll hear this stuff for the duration of the TV Deal.
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NavyDoc69
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-25-2012 11:10 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (05-25-2012 07:50 AM)NavyDoc69 Wrote: Is the ACC a DEAD Conference Walking
Yep, just like the Big 12 was dead when Nebraska & Colorado left... oh, wait, no one has actually left the ACC yet!
The difference being that the ACC just signed like a 20yr TV deal that completely devalues the ACC and I believe actually dropped the yearly income of the schools now if it dropped or increased I don't know for sure. BUt what I do know is that it is a **** deal where the schools are not happy with getting 17M/yr when other conferences just signed deals where the schools are getting upwards of 35M/yr.
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-29-2012 08:11 AM)NavyDoc69 Wrote: (05-25-2012 11:10 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (05-25-2012 07:50 AM)NavyDoc69 Wrote: Is the ACC a DEAD Conference Walking
Yep, just like the Big 12 was dead when Nebraska & Colorado left... oh, wait, no one has actually left the ACC yet!
The difference being that the ACC just signed like a 20yr TV deal that completely devalues the ACC and I believe actually dropped the yearly income of the schools now if it dropped or increased I don't know for sure. BUt what I do know is that it is a **** deal where the schools are not happy with getting 17M/yr when other conferences just signed deals where the schools are getting upwards of 35M/yr.
Wow - it's up to $35M/yr now? Amazing how the Big 12 TV contract grows bigger every day! (BTW - ALL conferences are pretty much locked into long term contracts which expire within a couple of years of each other. The ACC at least had the forethought to build-in "look-ins" every 5 years, just in case the landscape changes. Worst-case scenario, teams can always leave the conference later, since there is no grant of rights).
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
It's the escalator clause, Mark...
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05-29-2012 09:43 AM |
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-29-2012 09:43 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: It's the escalator clause, Mark...
You guys better hold on tight, 'cause that escalator must be turbo-charged!
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
Just hope it doesn't launch you ballistically...
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(05-29-2012 05:21 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: Just hope it doesn't launch you ballistically...
Ah, so now the Hokies are the ones on the escalator, and the Mountaineers are looking up at us? RECOGNIZE!
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
I seem to remember WVU stomping the ACC Champion, who beat VT pretty badly 2 times btw, in the Orange Bowl...
How did the Hokies fare again?
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(06-01-2012 06:45 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: I seem to remember WVU stomping the ACC Champion, who beat VT pretty badly 2 times btw, in the Orange Bowl...
How did the Hokies fare again?
1994 Virginia Tech 34 West Virginia 6
1995 Virginia Tech 27 West Virginia 0
1996 Virginia Tech 31 West Virginia 14
1997 West Virginia 30 Virginia Tech 17
1998 Virginia Tech 27 West Virginia 13
1999 Virginia Tech 22 West Virginia 20
2000 Virginia Tech 48 West Virginia 20
2001 Virginia Tech 35 West Virginia 0
2002 West Virginia 21 Virginia Tech 18
2003 West Virginia 28 Virginia Tech 7
2004 Virginia Tech 19 West Virginia 13
2005 Virginia Tech 34 West Virginia 17
Did someone say something?
Better be glad it was Clemson and not Va Tech in the Orange Bowl... the Hokies OWN the Mountaineers!
now, get back to the barn and clean up after Bevo!
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
The Hokies don't own diddly, dude. WVU is 28-22-1 against VT all-time, and the Hokies haven't played WVU since leaving The BEast...
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(06-02-2012 08:30 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: The Hokies don't own diddly, dude. WVU is 28-22-1 against VT all-time, and the Hokies haven't played WVU since leaving The BEast...
9-3 over the last 12 meetings = OWNAGE! (but why have this discussion on a Maryland board?)
(This post was last modified: 06-02-2012 03:43 PM by Hokie Mark.)
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
Since WVU and VT haven't played in 8 years, it's all ancient history and irrelevant. Why are we debating it? It beats me. You were the one who guided this conversation here...
I merely made a joke about the escalator clause, and you started talking smack...
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RE: More Realignment Talk
At least somebody is using the Maryland board?
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Hokie Mark
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(06-02-2012 07:24 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: Since WVU and VT haven't played in 8 years, it's all ancient history and irrelevant. Why are we debating it? It beats me. You were the one who guided this conversation here...
I merely made a joke about the escalator clause, and you started talking smack...
Of course you are innocent and it was me who started all the smack talk...
(06-01-2012 06:45 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: I seem to remember WVU stomping the ACC Champion, who beat VT pretty badly 2 times btw, in the Orange Bowl...
How did the Hokies fare again?
As for not playing in 8 years... BRING IT ON! Although if you are scared to play FSU I doubt you'll be all that interested in playing VT. Much easier to pick on Maryland OOC. So my advice to the Mountaineers would be "pick on somebody your own size". I think you all remember how to get to Blacksburg from Morgantown, and vice versa. Git 'er done!
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
The only contests we'll have to root about will be the basketball matchup that's been scheduled...
Football looks like it's going to stay on a hiatus for a while...
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RE: More Realignment Talk
(06-03-2012 06:40 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: The only contests we'll have to root about will be the basketball matchup that's been scheduled...
Football looks like it's going to stay on a hiatus for a while...
That's a real shame, too. Maybe if the NCAA goes to 13 regular season games... I was really hoping we would have met WVU in an Orange Bowl by now, but timing was always off.
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bitcruncher
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RE: More Realignment Talk
That's one of many shames, dude...
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RE: More Realignment Talk
I think the below pictures pretty much say it all!!!
Go Terps!!!!
VATECH!?!?!?!??!
Ouch. This one is not pretty for the Hokies.
Tech is 1-27 against Top Five competition all time. 1-19 under Frank Beamer.
Its tough to get wins in this category. That is why they are Top Five teams.
The best beat the best, however. And Virginia Tech has been nothing short of awful against the best. Frank Beamer has to find a way to instill the confidence needed in his teams to beat the perennial greats.
Until that time, the Hokies will be trapped by the glass ceiling that is elite status.
(06-03-2012 07:31 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (06-03-2012 06:40 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: The only contests we'll have to root about will be the basketball matchup that's been scheduled...
Football looks like it's going to stay on a hiatus for a while...
That's a real shame, too. Maybe if the NCAA goes to 13 regular season games... I was really hoping we would have met WVU in an Orange Bowl by now, but timing was always off.
(This post was last modified: 06-11-2012 11:14 AM by NavyDoc69.)
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