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BearcatMick said:
It does not matter if the ACC is "solid". Fox is driving all this now.

Fox encouraged the b1g to expand....they did

Fox encouraged the C7 to leave, they did

Fox now wants the B1G to expand more into the south with the ACC. They will

Fox now wants the B12 to expand as evidenced by the ny post article today...they will

Playoffs are coming. The acc, new conference were in, and the rest will have ONE slot between them for a bcs game come 2014. The ACC schools know this and that's why they have contacted the SEC, B1G and B12

Once Maryland gets out paying close to 20 mil, the floodgates open

Then I will not forget one moment to remind Ralph he was wrong like the C7 and all the rest
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Fox cannot force any ACC school to leave the ACC, it is not happening. Fox has tried for over a year to get Florida State and Miami to leave the ACC for the Big 12, both have repeatedlly told Fox NO!

Fox does not control the world. Fox was able to get the C7 to leave the Big East by overpaying, giving the C7 5 to 10 times their true market value but UNC, Duke, etc. are not the C7.

The ACC has a contract with the Orange Bowl through the 2025 season, it is a done deal at $27.5 million a year.
 
BearcatMick said:
Fox just announced new 24/7 sports channels to rival espn!

Time for the dominoes to fall

Btw Ralph you are so wrong now
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The dominos have already fallen. Fox is overpaying the C7 5 to 10 times more than market value to get programming.

NBC and ESPN offered the 18 school basketball Big East (which included the C7 and ND) $10 million for next season. So how can the C7 alone be worth $35 million? Fox is overpaying for product which is not a good recipe for success. Time Warner and the other satelite/cable companies are paying Fox 30 cents a subscriber per month. Fox is now going to want $1.00 a month per subsciber. What happens when Time Warner and the other cable/satelite companies refuse to pony up?

Anyway, the ACC is a solid group, none are leaving.
 
ESPN is reporting that the Big East football schools will get approximately $100 million in exit fees, with the largest shares going to UC, UCONN, and USF.

This is a little silver lining in the current situation. With 11 teams in total, UC would get $9 million if it was split evenly. I would expect us to get between $15-$20 million and the other 8 schools to get about $5-$7 million. I am literally just guessing though.
 
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I understand the so called C7 schools wanting out and tired of the football nonsense. Just because you call it the Big East doesn't mean it carries the weight it once had. G-Town, Nova, and Marquette I'm sure realize this and still did what they needed to do. Adding Xavier, Butler, and whomever else is like a old band touring again but without most of the original members, it's just watered down crap. Hopefully the Cats end up somewhere better, but until then I hope some intense rivalries with UCONN, Memphis, and Temple develop and each time one them plays a "Big East" or power conference team they play with a chip on their shoulder the size of a boulder and scare the sh*t out of them the way some of the old school Bearcats teams did. We need to find that attitude again.
 
Michigan State AD confirms Big 10 not expanding anytime soon:

Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis said Wednesday that while the number of 14 is "awkward" when it comes to scheduling, he doesn't see further expansion coming anytime soon to the Big Ten.

"We're not in a position right now where we're looking to expand," Hollis said. "There are not teams that are being talked to or discussed. It is off the radar right now from Big Ten athletic directors and the conference office. We're trying to figure out, more importantly, the integration of Rutgers and Maryland. Our focus and attention right now is in that direction."



From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130306/SPORTS0202/303060438#ixzz2Moy9DG3m
 
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20130307/GW01/303070009?nclick_check=1
Meetings in May in Chicago should produce recommendations for the league’s presidents to consider in June. Several Big Ten athletic directors have said the new divisions for 2014 and beyond — with Maryland and Rutgers in the mix, and perhaps two more schools by then — likely will be divided geographically......

And more expansion is expected, though Hollis indicated there’s nothing imminent on that front.
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ralph1950 said:
Michigan State AD confirms Big 10 not expanding anytime soon:

Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis said Wednesday that while the number of 14 is "awkward" when it comes to scheduling, he doesn't see further expansion coming anytime soon to the Big Ten.

"We're not in a position right now where we're looking to expand," Hollis said. "There are not teams that are being talked to or discussed. It is off the radar right now from Big Ten athletic directors and the conference office. We're trying to figure out, more importantly, the integration of Rutgers and Maryland. Our focus and attention right now is in that direction."



From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130306/SPORTS0202/303060438#ixzz2Moy9DG3m
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It's so hard to gather much from these comments because it is all so carefully said. Nothing imminent could mean nothing until atleast 2025 like you claim, or it could mean its happening tommorow but today its not imminent. They use so much non-commital, generic words that it's hard to not think something is up. If they had no intentions of expanding then why go through the trouble of dancing around everything with words.
 
bearcatfan1211 said:
It's so hard to gather much from these comments because it is all so carefully said. Nothing imminent could mean nothing until atleast 2025 like you claim, or it could mean its happening tommorow but today its not imminent. They use so much non-commital, generic words that it's hard to not think something is up. If they had no intentions of expanding then why go through the trouble of dancing around everything with words.
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Most probably he is saying "North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, and Georgia Tech have turned us down, we have no where to go."
 
ralph1950 said:
This is not a factual article, it is nothing more than an opinion piece.

The ACC has the same members today as it had on December 1, 2012.

No school has left and I stand by my statement that no school will leave.
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Thanks for telling us, i didnt know this is how you felt. Maybe you should post the same exact thing more often.
 
Brett mcmurphy, the guy from espn who has relayed every conference realignment issue accurately, is saying "There's a very very good chance delaney from B1G is going to raid the ACC"

Ralph dismisses him as a blogger with rumors in 3....2.....1
 
BearcatMick said:
Brett mcmurphy, the guy from espn who has relayed every conference realignment issue accurately, is saying "There's a very very good chance delaney from B1G is going to raid the ACC"

Ralph dismisses him as a blogger with rumors in 3....2.....1
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Just curious...but where did he say this? I'd love to read it since he is somebody that actually does know what is going on.
 
BearcatMick and Ralph:

Can the two of you please do me a favor? I would like you to forget all past stuff and look towards the future.

I would like you to answer these five questions the best you can. The person who is closest to getting three of the five correctly I will not ban from view. I would suggest that person just leave the forum when results are posted as to bring peace to the rest of us but I doubt either of you care about the rest of us enough to do this.

So here are my questions:

1.) What conference will UC end up in?
2.) By what date will they end up in this new conference?
3.) What seed will UC get in the tournament?
4.) Will UC end up in the NIT or the NCAA tournament?
5.) How far will they go? (sweet 16, one and done etc . . .)
 

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