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[1983 Cotton Bowl]

I could see Louisville rather than UVA to Big-12, its a close call. Louisville has a far superior athletic program. But UVA has the academic thing going on that all these power conferences profess to want (total load of horse [deleted]). I guess maybe it would boil down to whether UVA is considered to "deliver" the Washington DC televison market.

But after what happened between UVA, VT, and the ACC ten years ago, I wonder if the Virginia legislature would just let VT sail into the SEC (or whatever) while UVA is left without a coushy landing spot (ie Big-12).

[Pony81]

I would much rather be in a combo BE/ ACC conference than in the Big XII.
No dominate school like Texas- they and OU control all in the Big XIi
Teams we can compete with
Schools that are universities with football teams instead of the other way around.
Make very good money. Not TCU money but we also don't get our butts kicked each week and we get exposure to a different part of the country for student recruitment - which is why we want top tier athletics in the first place.

Guys: if we can pull this off we are in a good place.

[StallionsModelT]

Still a lot of dominoes have to fall before we can start having the ACC wet dream. However, if as others suggested, the exit fee for Maryland is substantially lower than originally thought then the ACC will become a firesale. At that point we could end up in a conference like this:

Syracuse
Boston College
UConn
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Louisville
Wake Forest
Duke
Central Florida
South Florida
SMU
Houston

[Stallion]

Word on the street is that Big 12 has little interest in Louisville. If they go for FSU they need to fill out with geographically compatable with FSU teams like Clemson and Miami or Georgia Tech (if no Big 10). Louisville would definitely be lower on totem pole

[mustangxc]

Word on the street is that Big 12 has little interest in Louisville. If they go for FSU they need to fill out with geographically compatable with FSU teams like Clemson and Miami or Georgia Tech (if no Big 10). Louisville would definitely be lower on totem pole

What about Virginia Tech? They could serve as travel partner for West Virginia.

[Stallion]

Virginia Tech and NCSU reportedly would end up in SEC which would need to respond to a Big 10 move

[SoCal_Pony]

Virginia Tech and NCSU reportedly would end up in SEC which would need to respond to a Big 10 move

Per the article you provided, NC St currently generates $65.5M in revenues while Virginia Tech earns $64.8. If you subtract out the $15M incremental revenues they receive from their ACC membership versus our CUSA membership, suddenly you have 2 schools that earn $50M vs. our $43M. And this doesn’t factor in the better conference opponents which earn you more money.

Is $7M such an obstacle that we would be excluded from consideration? It certainly wasn’t an obstacle for Rutgers. Oh, but I forgot, Rutgers is in such a primo market.

Look, I don’t think we get an SEC invite, but I am really surprised by how close we are in revenues, that is a real positive for our school. But before I jump to further conclusions, would really like to know how they calculate it.

[SoCal_Pony]

and I agree that odds are VTech and NC St get the invite, just as I think Fl St and Miami go B12.

[EastStang]

The SEC might stay at 14 unless forced to do so. Why split up the pie more unless the $$$$ make sense? VT and NCS don't add sufficient $$$$ to expand the SEC unless you extrapolate NCS as delivering Raleigh/Durham and VT entre into DC which is a stretch. SEC games are already on TV on CBS in DC. Big XII would look at FSU and Clemson because they deliver markets not in Big XII footprint including entre into Florida recruiting market. The curve ball in this may be Vanderbilt. They may demand another private if the SEC expands. That would mean in all liklihood,the U, Duke, Tulane or SMU. It probably won't happen, but if the they have to expand to 16 and the $$$$ are not there, they might think about that.