Notre Dame, Louisville, Florida State and Miami...interesting
CJ

From Austin American

From the article:

Don't count DeLoss Dodds among those expecting the superconferences to get here anytime soon, even after Friday's announcement that the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference will pair their champions in a new bowl game, assuming those teams are not in the four-team national playoff. He's not on board with 16-team conferences.

"I think that's way, way out there," the Texas athletic director told me last week. "The Big Ten likes where they are; they don't want to change. The Pac-12's got all they can get. I don't see superconferences for a while. I think it'd take a crisis for that to happen."

Of course, it seems college football is in crisis mode every other week. And if the Big 12 and SEC push the megaconference agenda, other dominoes would then fall. The preference here would be for the Big 12 to invite Notre Dame, Louisville, Florida State and Miami.

That would be a bad @ss conference.

(05-20-2012 09:59 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Notre Dame, Louisville, Florida State and Miami...interesting
CJ

From Austin American

From the article:

Don't count DeLoss Dodds among those expecting the superconferences to get here anytime soon, even after Friday's announcement that the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference will pair their champions in a new bowl game, assuming those teams are not in the four-team national playoff. He's not on board with 16-team conferences.

"I think that's way, way out there," the Texas athletic director told me last week. "The Big Ten likes where they are; they don't want to change. The Pac-12's got all they can get. I don't see superconferences for a while. I think it'd take a crisis for that to happen."

Of course, it seems college football is in crisis mode every other week. And if the Big 12 and SEC push the megaconference agenda, other dominoes would then fall. The preference here would be for the Big 12 to invite Notre Dame, Louisville, Florida State and Miami.

It seems that Louisville just "Might" be ahead of Clemson...something in the Chip Brown piece kind of struck me and that was the preception that the Big XII didn't want to be seen as "killing off" the Big XII.

One school from the BIG EAST & one from the ACC would hurt both leagues but not kill it.

Some young whipper snapper had a quick question/answer tweet to Kirk Bohls, the author of this article in this thread......See below.

https://twitter.com/#!/kbohls/status/204416704846114817


Danny Grace‏@Dgrace75

@kbohls The last article you posted has ND, FSU, UL, & Miami...is that what Texas AD Dodds/UT wants for expansion is that what u would like?


kbohls‏@kbohls
@Dgrace75 That's what I'd like. I know Dodds covets ND. Not sure on other three, but he does like Louisville.

I don't think Miami is going to be a part of the mix. The NCAA still has yet to slam them, and there's been some talk about deemphasizing sports at Miami too. IMO that stuff will raise a big red flag on any support Miami had...

I believe that is where Clemson might step in for Miami. I just don't see the Clemson thing as cut and dried from the Clemson end as some.
CJ

Ok that's not a bad line up at all, and who's to say it doesn't happen, BUT lets replace Miami/Clemson with say Georgia Tech. This is a institution that would give the Big12 the trump card that they don't have which is called the heart of the South. Just think they garner not only a AAU school, but one that has history with a school that Texas is so desperately trying it's best to convince to join in Notre Dame. So with the Big12 looking to expand possibly beyond their current line up of 10 schools it is really hard to say which direction they will go, but Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, and Georgia Tech would be a awesome addition to the Big12.

Texas, TT, Baylor TCU, Oklahoma, Okla State, Kansas, KSU, Iowa State, West Virginia ( which is still hard to picture amongst this group ) with Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech.

This would be the line up that would push the SEC to it's limits IMO if it would ever present itself, but who knows what will happen, but expansion is just when will it happen is what everyone has no clue not to mention which teams will be invited or the order the invites will be handed out. [/align]

ND is apparently very, very good at "no news".

There is nothing coming from ND on conference realignment issues other than "monitoring the landscape" and "we have options no matter what" statements.

From visiting the realignment board, there are bloggers and sources and Tweets from every type of source, affiliated with all sorts of schools, with information that is either true or made up.

There is really only silence coming from ND. It reminds me of the summer of 2010 when everyone and his brother thought for sure that Jim Delany and the Big Ten had ND "checkmated". What did everyone hear from ND then?

"Crickets".

I Feel the Big12 will take one from each conference first to appease ESPN from damaging the ACC. If it goes well they probably will bring in Clemson or VT if they want to jump if the SEC holds off on more expansion.
I still think Rutgers is in play as well as Pitt.