(12-09-2014 04:12 AM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 07:17 PM)Starfox207 Wrote:  Pick us up. You know you want to. Cmon. Pirates? PirateS?

How do you not want pirates?

Can you count how many tigers there are in college football?

Count the Number of Pirates in college. you cant beat that.

Want some? Come Get Some. Also, poor gators. We are going to be JACKED!

Seriously doubt this has any credibility:

Utini @PromiscuousJawa · 13h 13 hours ago
Vanderbilt contacted by B10
SEC sought organizational information from East Carolina today. Expansion related? Trying to confirm.
Confirmed
Would Vanderbilt leave the SEC for the B10? Hearing it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
Hearing one major SEC football power is weighing options. Does the SEC HQ being in Birmingham act too favorably towards Alabama? B12 bound?

Murdccu these scenarios are about 3 years old now and if they are unfolding they were a contingency that was worked out should the ACC be dismantled. To make room for more ACC schools the SEC could work with the Big 10 who would want some Southerly expansion. Their contract is up with ESPN in 2016 and negotiations will be forthcoming. Texas wants its own conference. The SEC wants its larger markets for the network. So as the contingency worked duplicated markets might be shed by negotiation of all parties to make the numbers game work.

So what you are reporting is either:
a. Old news about the contingencies finally coming to more public light.
b. The same old message board stuff that is designed to pump up one fan base or another by a troll.
c. The precursor to a much larger move.

My money is on b.

But in case it is c. here were the particulars. Back when the ACC was imperiled by Maryland's move and the networks were trying to make a 4 x 16 work (which btw the recent playoff debacle has brought back into focus the reality of needing to do so) the idea was that Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech could be moved to the Big 10 to make room for Duke, North Carolina, Virginia and possibly another ACC school's move into the SEC. (N.C. State was the presumed 4th school as it met the Triangles demands to stay together and it could be the impetus behind the rumor of a school weighing options to the Big 12). Texas and Oklahoma would be propped up by the additions of Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, Clemson, Miami, and Georgia Tech. Pittsburgh could be substituted for a recalcitrant N.D.

The East Carolina contact is pro forma. Let's say under the present conditions that the Big 12 actually added B.Y.U. and Cincinnati (not likely but let's suppose). Such a move would mean that the Big 12 was going to be off the market as far as the Big 10, PAC, and SEC expansion was concerned. It wouldn't preclude the ACC dissolution, but it would certainly impact who might be taken if it occurred. In a world however where the ACC also held firm where would the SEC go to obtain its markets if it couldn't tap another P5 source? In such a scenario having the paperwork previously handled with prospects for such an event gives them the time advantage to obtain those properties before things became a scramble.

In a world of P5 stasis East Carolina, Central Florida, Connecticut, Cincinnati, B.Y.U. and others out West all become the only viable expansion products left. I would think that the SEC would want to at least have ECU, UCF, and possibly Cincinnati prepped just in case. But that doesn't mean that anything is about to happen. But in my opinion a Big 12 expansion out of the G5 is the most hopeful sign an ECU fan could look for.

And by the way, unless it was Arkansas, or one of the Mississippi schools, I can't see anyone leaving the SEC for the Big 12. Arkansas would be returning home and a Mississippi school would be making room for another SEC addition and doing so to get out from under the shadows of Alabama, Auburn, L.S.U., and now A&M.