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    Va Tech to SEC???

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    Hokie AD’s SEC comments cause fit to hit Twitter shan


    Hokie AD’s SEC comments cause fit to hit Twitter shan

    Posted by John Taylor on November 21, 2012, 7:51 AM EST
    APOver the past two days, both Maryland and Rutgers have officially announced they were moving their athletics programs from the ACC and Big East, respectively, to the Big Ten. As is usually the case in these types of situations, those actual moves have spawned myriad speculative ones.
    UConn or Louisville to the ACC. North Carolina and Virginia to the Big Ten to create the first major superconference. Florida State to the Big 12 (again). And on and on and on it goes, with seemingly anyone with a morsel of information flinging it against the wall in the hopes that something will stick in the latest round of conference expansion.
    And then there’s Jim Weaver. The Virginia Tech athletic director, normally not one to verbally shoot from the hip, preferring to keep his athletic department’s cards close to the vest, caused quite the Twitter stir late Tuesday night with comments that may or may not have been taken out of context.
    During a weekly call-in show on 101.7-FM in Southwest Virginia, Weaver was asked, David Teal of the Hampton Roads Daily Press wrote, “whether he thought the SEC would contact Tech if it wanted to start its own network.”
    “I really haven’t thought about it because the discussion has just come about three or four days ago,” Weaver began, before adding, “I’d like to defer my comment for right now, but there may potentially be some interest.”

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    Re: Va Tech to SEC???

    Virginia Tech should've gotten in before Missouri

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    Re: Va Tech to SEC???

    Quote Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS View Post
    As is usually the case in these types of situations, those actual moves have spawned myriad speculative ones.
    That is a very accurate quote. My speculation is that the Big East is almost on life support. If Va. Tech and/or Louisville leave, the ACC might take another couple of schools from the Big East, forcing the basketball schools to split.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StrayDawg View Post
    That is a very accurate quote. My speculation is that the Big East is almost on life support. If Va. Tech and/or Louisville leave, the ACC might take another couple of schools from the Big East, forcing the basketball schools to split.
    The Big East is the new WAC. Schools are baling out like rats on a sinking ship. Even if it doesn't make a lot of sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    Even if it doesn't make a lot of sense.
    Not sure why you said it doesn't make sense. The strongest BE teams are scrambling to get a spot with one of the Big5 and a portion of the playoff money next year.

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    Anybody in the Big East who gets an invitation to one of the major five will go. For good reason. The question is whether anyone leaves for C*USA and/or the MWC. That hasn't yet. It might, but for a variety of reasons I think there are reasons that it won't.

    One of the bigger questions is whether the ACC will actually look at Louisville, Cincinnati, and/or South Florida. None of them fit within the ACC's academic profile, so even if they lose two more they might well stand pat at 12 if there aren't the votes to get back to 14. Or they'll look at the dollars and cents. Not sure.

    If Louisville & Cincinnati go, I still think the "everybody goes back to C*USA" is problematic due to four of the six remaining all-sports members wanting to exhaust every other option rather than just running for cover. If the basketball schools split, that'd actually make reloading easier. It's at least partially a question of what exactly the rules are that supposedly make forming a new conference difficult and whether or not they can be waived on the grounds that nobody really wants a 20-team conference.

    There are also some scenarios that involve C*USA getting a couple of the BE teams in the east but losing a couple in the west. The possibility of that may depend on whether South Florida gets an invite somewhere.
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    I think before Louisville and Cincinnatti leave the Big East, unless they get a bid to the ACC or Big 12, they'll go independent for football, and stay in the Big East for basketball.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DONW View Post
    I think before Louisville and Cincinnatti leave the Big East, unless they get a bid to the ACC or Big 12, they'll go independent for football, and stay in the Big East for basketball.
    I thought that was a possibility with West Virginia, but I don't think Louisville and (particularly) Cincinnati could pull it off alone. There are some scenarios where the remaining schools go FB-independent together with a joint media deal of some sort. Most likely, there'd need to be fewer than 8 left for that to happen.
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    Rumors from Maryland fans is that North Carolina is wanted by the Big 10 as well. It would be interesting to see what the ACC would do if they bailed too. They could always add Eastern Carolina, but they may end up with a coastal conference with very few from the coast before this is all over as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cal&Ken View Post
    Rumors from Maryland fans is that North Carolina is wanted by the Big 10 as well. It would be interesting to see what the ACC would do if they bailed too. They could always add Eastern Carolina, but they may end up with a coastal conference with very few from the coast before this is all over as well.
    So now we're supposed to believe that North Carolina is willing to leave Duke, Wake Forest and NC State behind? Not a chance. I'll have to see it to believe it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    So now we're supposed to believe that North Carolina is willing to leave Duke, Wake Forest and NC State behind? Not a chance. I'll have to see it to believe it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    So now we're supposed to believe that North Carolina is willing to leave Duke, Wake Forest and NC State behind? Not a chance. I'll have to see it to believe it.



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    That would be North Carolina's parachute if North Carolina State went with Virginia Tech to the $EC. Can't see it otherwise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HogDawg View Post
    So now we're supposed to believe that North Carolina is willing to leave Duke, Wake Forest and NC State behind? Not a chance. I'll have to see it to believe it.



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    No one said they were leaving- just that the rumor was they were wanted and were being talked to. I can't see them going either, but it would certainly shake things up more than they already are.

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    Re: Va Tech to SEC???

    I'm hearing NC State may be in consideration with Va. Tech as well

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