2011 NCAA College Football Thread (Realignment II)

[BR329]

Aug 12, 2011 21:46:32 GMT -5 MGH said:

Todd_Wright Whoa! Jeff Tarpley of AggieYell.com just told me on air he hears via A&M sources that NORTH CAROLINA may be in the mix as SEC's 14th school.

Jesus, is Russo booking this conference realignment?

[Brick Killed a Guy]

UNC to the SEC? Now it changes things. Not really football wise, but what is Dickie V gonna do if UNC can't play Duke twice a year?

[Jazzman]

Dare I say that the UNC move is a Baseball move? It's the only explanation that makes sense. Sure UK/UNC in basketball looks nice, but that's all you get on the b-ball end.

[Drillbit Taylor]

Aug 12, 2011 23:34:54 GMT -5 Jazzman said:

Dare I say that the UNC move is a Baseball move? It's the only explanation that makes sense. Sure UK/UNC in basketball looks nice, but that's all you get on the b-ball end.

Florida is not bad. And Fake T does pretty good.

[Fauxberg]

Anyone got any Syracuse news?

[Jazzman]

Aug 12, 2011 23:36:55 GMT -5 Fauxberg said:

Anyone got any Syracuse news?

Prince Tyson-Gulley is back at practice after he got stabbed over the summer, no word yet on the status of Marcus Sales.

Team looks good in Practice though from what I've seen.

[MGH]

GottliebShow High ranking source at Texas A&M confirms, going to SEC.Clemson,FSU,Missouri likely to join.

[Fauxberg]

Aug 12, 2011 22:47:40 GMT -5 BR329 said:

Aug 12, 2011 21:46:32 GMT -5 MGH said:

Todd_Wright Whoa! Jeff Tarpley of AggieYell.com just told me on air he hears via A&M sources that NORTH CAROLINA may be in the mix as SEC's 14th school.

Jesus, is Russo booking this conference realignment?

First game of the season opens up with Immortal.

[Chuckie Finster]

Missouri getting into the SEC would be a massive win for them. No way they were getting into the B1G.

[jamofpearls]

Tim Brando is saying on twitter, that if Mizzou gets the chance, they are gone.

[Deleted]

All of this conference realignment is going to create a couple of super conferences where the champions of each play for the national championship virtually every year.

[BearDogg-X]

From Tony Barnhart:

- Florida State to the SEC is not happening. FSU has not heard from the SEC regarding an invite to join. Also, a lot of the SEC schools are against FSU joining, mainly because FSU shunned an invite in 1991(when they got Arkansas and South Carolina).

-SEC Presidents are meeting today rather than tomorrow to discuss A&M joining.

-According to a very high source in the Big XII hierarchy, only way A&M is out of SEC is if SEC Presidents vote against them joining.

-SEC Commish Mike Slive is 100% confident that A&M will get voted into SEC, would not have called meeting if felt he wouldn't get desired outcome. Slive feels status quo is about to change and wants to be proactive, not reactive, in making the move now.

-Oklahoma feels like Big XII can survive as long as it has both them and Texas. OU wants Big XII to survive as its the easiest path to BCS Bowls/National Championship game to them.

-Virginia Tech is no go for SEC because of Virginia politics(would have to take Virginia as well).

-SEC is looking east at the Carolinas, mainly NC State, but would take either Clemson or Mizzou as 14th member.

[BR329]

Any guesses on who the ACC is going to replace. I think ECU would be a good replacement and maybe UCF as a backup in case they lose another team.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

The Texas A&M joining the SEC is another death nail for the Big 12 in my opinion.

[Krimzon]

Aug 13, 2011 11:41:08 GMT -5 BR329 said:

Any guesses on who the ACC is going to replace. I think ECU would be a good replacement and maybe UCF as a backup in case they lose another team.

ECU would definitely be a good replacement. They don't deserve to be in such a shit conference.

[Beets by Schrute]

Aug 13, 2011 11:41:08 GMT -5 BR329 said:

Any guesses on who the ACC is going to replace. I think ECU would be a good replacement and maybe UCF as a backup in case they lose another team.

USF would be good too.

Btw, is A&M done with playing Texas every season too?

[BearDogg-X]

Clay Travis of OutkicktheCoverage.com thinks that the FSU/Clemson to SEC rumors are an attempt to derail the A&M/SEC deal:

outkickthecoverage.com/fsu-and-clemson-have-no-shot-at-the-sec.php

Basically:
-Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina have a pact that they would vote against Georgia Tech, Florida State, and Clemson joining the SEC. Plus, the SEC will not expand into markets where they already have teams present.

-SEC Commissioner Mike Slive runs league with near unanimity, meaning that he wouldn't push an expansion vote if more than one school is against.

-If SEC were to extend offers to ACC schools, they'd look at expanding into Virginia(VT, Virginia) or North Carolina(UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest).

-SEC could also make run at Texas Tech.

[Lupin the Third]

Wow. The last 24 hours have just been a giant clusterf*** of news for College Football. First the Ohio State ordeal, now the A&M to SEC thing. What next, Auburn and Oregon having to forfeit the entire last season and TCU getting the BCS National Championship?

[andrew8798]

Local carpenter suing Mike Gundy.

Brent Loveland of Choctaw says he arrived early in the morning on March 21 wearing a gray "Oklahoma Baseball" T-shirt with the university's name in red block letters.

He and two others began to unload their equipment.

According to the lawsuit, Gundy arrived at the house at 9:30 a.m. and spotted Loveland's shirt. "How dare you come into my house and offend my wife," Gundy allegedly said.

Gundy then allegedly used profanity as he told the contractor to get off his property.

Gundy called Loveland a "stupid idiot" for wearing the shirt on "OSU soil," and refused Loveland's apologies, the lawsuit says. The contractor offered to turn his shirt inside-out, but was refused, according to the suit.

espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6857486/oklahoma-state-cowboys-mike-gundy-fired-ou-shirt

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Aug 13, 2011 15:53:04 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Local carpenter suing Mike Gundy.

Brent Loveland of Choctaw says he arrived early in the morning on March 21 wearing a gray "Oklahoma Baseball" T-shirt with the university's name in red block letters.

He and two others began to unload their equipment.

According to the lawsuit, Gundy arrived at the house at 9:30 a.m. and spotted Loveland's shirt. "How dare you come into my house and offend my wife," Gundy allegedly said.

Gundy then allegedly used profanity as he told the contractor to get off his property.

Gundy called Loveland a "stupid idiot" for wearing the shirt on "OSU soil," and refused Loveland's apologies, the lawsuit says. The contractor offered to turn his shirt inside-out, but was refused, according to the suit.

espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6857486/oklahoma-state-cowboys-mike-gundy-fired-ou-shirt

Yeah.....Mike Gundy definitely took things way too far if all of that is true. For f***'s sakes it was just an OU shirt.