Agreed but will be tricky to get there. Despite the rumors I think the SEC would want Clemson and FSU and two of Miami, NCSU, and Va. Tech. The B1G would want GT, UVA, UNC, and ND but ND has to agree and they aren't one of the 8 needed to disband anyway.
Yeah, forgot about ND. Notre Dame would be the fly in that ointment. They've got to end up somewhere, and it's not going to be in a Tier 2 conference.
The greed is what drove me away from pro sports. I was a Braves season ticket holder for thirty years and I only saw an inning last year with friends in a restaurant.
And you are perfectly fine doing that. It’s all about personal choices. I personally approve of greed because that is what drives innovation and brings us more options. For sports, we disagree. I love bigger playoffs because it gives me more excitement season to season that my team has a shot. Like you, I don’t spend money on pro sports outside a Braves game here and there because I hate the unions and players. But I have no issue with others spending big on pro sports. I prefer to spend my money on GT where I can wander campus and think about my days of brown hair and abs. If GT drops down or stays in a weakened ACC we’ll all have to adjust to it.
I was also wondering about this math, at what point does the ACC disband. The list below, happening simultaneously, would do it.
I'm not sure the academic side would view joining the Big 10 Academic Alliance as a PITA. Also, from a donor side, the academic side of the school dwarfs athletics. The " Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business" was so named because he made a $50 million donation to the school. On this forum we focus on athletics. There are plenty of people who care about and financially support that academic side of the school irrespective of athletics.
But our team doesn't have a shot if we're Tier II, correct?...or perhaps they might include a token team? I'm for larger playoffs (combined with cutting regular season) and like competition to heighten excellence. But I still get lost in where amateur sports at a school of higher learning ends and anything goes big business begins.
So you think joining the B1G academic alliance would be a major factor motivating Cabrera to jump from the ACC? Any thoughts about why it didn’t matter enough when we turned down the B1G invitation in 2012?
I don't have any inside information. I do think that the people on the academic side who don't care much about athletics would still like to be part of an academic/research consortium like the Big10's. I think it would add prestige on the academic side which is something they seem to care about a lot. I was responding to your statement that they would think it is all just a PITA. I think many would think it worthwhile to be a part of the academic side of the Big10. Many fans seem to think that football will be the only thing involved in conference affiliation. To this point, the Big10 has considered academics and research to be very important, up to the level that they have a prestigious consortium that includes every member. The ACC used to value academics, but as far as I know have never had any such affiliation. Then they added Louisville, which was obviously only for football and basketball.
Good Lord.
Maybe you missed that I was taking about them being interested in academics instead saying they care about athletics.
Well, I can’t help you with that one. If you didn’t realize 20 years ago that all schools including GT were admitting morons and paying players under the table in some form or fashion then I can understand where NIL is a shock today. I wish I was lucky enough to have had my eyes closed until now. I accepted college sports as shams and totally disconnected from the school when I was sitting in class with many players from the 1990 football team and Final Four hoops team and saw up close that athletes were in a totally different class and basically hands off. I remember sitting there thinking of a good friend who got denied from GT who was pretty darn smart while I watched these athletes struggle to write a paragraph or add anything to a project. But people pay big money to watch someone run, jump, throw, catch, and shoot, including me.
Why can't ND join the B1G until 2036?
the deal with ND and the ACC is that ND cant join any conference unless its the ACC. the deal expires 2036
Yeah, that's been going on, probably from the beginning. One Tech athlete from my class in the 70's with a long pro career could barely read. Another big name sitting next to me was upset that my exam had different answers and tapped me on the arm continuely the whole hour asking me to do work his problems too. Ah, but I guess it all gets fixed in the end.
