MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Yup. Miami banned itself from postseason play again, and holds the tiebreaker to UNC, even if they beat Maryland this week. They lost to Middle Tennessee earlier this year.

His defense sucks, and he doesn't have the athletes to run his offense. So, that's a problem.

The SEC won't take FSU or Clemson. The whole point of expansion is to become more geographically broad to get more TV viewers within your footprint. The SEC already has Florida and South Carolina locked up.

as soon as they decide on one nickname.....Ramblin Wreck or Yellowjackets ?

I would much rather have GT over Rutgers.

You must have the Google maps.

Krzyzewski on his weekly radio show said that he is worried that there are more teams leaving the ACC. He said that the first thing he'd do is have a meeting and make sure everyone in the conference is "still there" and not looking elsewhere.

The ACC has become the Big East part deux.

Please, please, please, let the ACC disband and leave nd high and dry.

I think this is the end game that Delaney is still angling for. Guessing he believes that the inevitability is to move to 4 conferences with 16 teams; then break from the NCAA and 'have-conferences' keep the money to themselves. He's trying to set up the chess board to make a break up of the ACC inevitable and leave a single slot open in the Big Ten for the potential to have ND land there as a full member. It further marginalizes the Big East to the point it can't compete effectively for a top four playoff spot. This is like a mercy killing at this point for the Big East.

IF you play out how to get there either the ACC or the Big 12 has to implode. What parts of those two conferences are most attractive for TV and which has network allies who are pro-Big Ten (or least aligned with ESPN)?

Someone else posted that FSU, Clemson and Miami could still get cold feet. Is there enough football passion if you lose two of those three plus Maryland to out compete the BIg 12 as the chosen fourth?

Guess you could still end up with some 5 of 6 conference aspects but why does teh PAC 10, SEC and Big Ten want to keep giving access and sharing revenue with schools who are not investing nearly as much skin in the game?

This will make an interesting Harvard business review article on strategy and game theory in 20 years.

I hope we add Georgia Tech and North Carolina.

It is all about TV markets and recruiting territory. Both of those states produce a lot of talent, and will bring in a ton of money.

Fuck Notre Dame, let them go running to the B12 when the dust settles...or let them stay in a neutered ACC, I don't GAF which they choose.

ND can only bring the B1G more money at this point, but the B1G schools will be the highest paid regardless of whether ND joins or not. So, it's onto someone who can expand our recruiting footprint...and, of course, the punitive measure of watching ND get screwed.

Ton of Big Ten alums here. Big Ten Pub Crawl drew nearly 2k people. Expansion is based on football and GA is #6 state for NFL talent. Coach D told me he only plays in two golf tourn with ours being one of them. Very important recruiting area, already have four players from here. Lastly, ATL top ten TV market.