(02-25-2013 05:36 PM)NJRedMan Wrote: (02-25-2013 03:01 PM)TerryD Wrote: (02-25-2013 12:41 PM)NJRedMan Wrote: The end goal is always Notre Dame. They will take enough ACC schools along with the SEC taking a few to get ND to move once again. If they go to the Big XII just watch as the Pac once again gets eyes for their own expansion. Notre Dame is the angel of death for any conference who harbors the Irish. First the Big East, now the ACC and then the Big XII if they go down that route.
The B1G will take UNC, Duke and UVA and the SEC will take VT and NC St which will essentially take the mid atlantic region away from the ACC and the Irish.
I also see the SEC taking FSU and WVU to really expand for their network.
B1G gets UNC, Duke, UVA and ND.
SEC gets VT, NC St., FSU and WVU.
If the Big XII is lucky the Pac doesn't take 6 of it's members. Though those 6 (UT, T Tech, OU, OSU, KU, KSU) along with WVU could easily just vote to dissolve the league which would dissolve the GoR agreement. If the Big XII doesn't exist then neither does their TV contract. That would certainly suck for Baylor, TCU and ISU, though I could see them hooking up with the remnants of the ACC and a few nBE schools.
BC, Cuse, UConn, Temple, Pitt, UofL, UC, Wake, Miami, Clemson, GT, ISU, TCU, Baylor, Houston, USF.
Good, maybe the Irish could move to the Big 12, then the SEC, then the Pac 12 and then the Big Ten.
After ND kills every conference, college football can start over. That works for me.
I should have said the angel of death who is following Notre Dame is the B1G. They will destabilize any conference who harbors their biggest target. The fighting irish.
I know Terry will vehemently deny this, but i think we eventually see ND join the B1G full time. I think the end game is three major conferences, one middle conference with the leftover Big XII, ACC and BE members (from this last season back), and then the nonpower leagues.
God, I sure hope not. That will severely dampen my enthusiasm for ND football and college football in general.
Part of my enjoyment of ND football is that they have a unique status, go against the grain, don't fall in line, piss folks off, are the outlier, go it alone, earn their own TV money, etc...
I like that ND does not conform to the football conference model. I like it a lot.
I like it even better when they do it differently and also win big, like last year.
It seems to irk folks in the media and in conference headquarters even more. I enjoy the idea of that.
If ND joins the Big Ten, hell, they might as well be Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin or Iowa.
What will be the difference? Just another Big Ten school. Ho hum.
I root for Navy and BYU when not playing the Irish. At least, they try to do something different.
I would marginally like it better if ND ends up in the ACC or Big 12 than the Big Ten. That is my worst case scenario, my Doomsday event. That will royally piss me off.
Hell=just another random Big Ten member. Big deal. I am not the least bit interested in divisional or conference championships or "intra-conference" playoffs.
That is how I look at things. Random schools in random conferences, all about the same as the other.
All too uniform, too conformist.
Random schools in random conferences, all about the same as the other. Nobody doing anything different or unique. No thanks.
Zzzzzzz.....