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  1. lv99

    Wichita State Emerges As Potential Basketball Only Add To AAC (Officially Official)

    How the AAC's impending addition of Wichita State basketball helps SMU | SportsDay
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    Wichita State Emerges As Potential Basketball Only Add To AAC (Officially Official)

    Before we jump in without thinking and add Wichita State, I think we need to assess all possible additions. There might be some other schools that have football that might be interested in joining just in basketball. We might want to consider UMass. They have been wanting to join a long time...
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    Big 12 not considering expansion, title game after college football playoff snubs

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
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    For those Huskies (and everybody else in NE)

    If you are snowed in at home watching TV, I recommend you watch "Groundhog Day". It is almost Groundhog Day (Februrary 2), and the movie involves being trapped by a blizzard.
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    Looks Like ACC CCG Dergulation WIll Pass

    Gentlemen, please, let's try to pull ourselves together. There are actually some people on here trying to defend the attributes Rutgers brings to a league. That's not appropriate. Let me explain a little about what I like to call my "bad apple" theory of conference realignment. When you...
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    new article on Northwestern players' unionization attempt

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/us/northwestern-football-players-union/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Although I'm opposed to paying players, the article makes some good points about how, because of the hours spent involved with the sport, there's really no time to pursue a "real" major, so it does sort of...
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    Director's Cup Standings

    The important thing is to keep a watch on the ranking and make sure that it doesn't get too low. If you don't, the Big Ten might kick you out and replace you with us. After all, we are number 1 in the VISA Platinum Cup rankings, although you are still holding up there pretty well at #5.
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    Director's Cup Standings

    Yes, I agree. The VISA Platinum Cup is the best ranking system. You can tell just by looking at the list. The Director's Cup and Capital One Cup only take into account 40 or 50 sports. They don't cover everything. That's where the VISA Platinum Cup is a major improvement. It's a lot...
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    Director's Cup Standings

    2014 VISA Platinum Cup (through March 15) 1. Connecticut 2. Notre Dame 3. USC 4. Texas 5. Ohio State 6. UCLA 7. Michigan 8. North Carolina 9. Florida 10. Michigan State
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    Director's Cup Standings

    I looked up the full list on the Internet. Auburn is #50. Iowa State is #51. Iowa State just missed out in being in the top 50, but they are doing pretty well in the NCAA tournament. We'll have to see if it's enough to bump them up to the top 50. Right now, they are on the wrong side of the...
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    2014 NCAA Tournament teams APR scores

    http://santamonica.patch.com/groups/sports/p/ucla-4th-seed-in-tourney-bottom-third-for-academics-says-report "Kansas was the only team with a perfect score of 1,000. Duke, Louisville, Memphis and Michigan all had rates of 995. Connecticut had the lowest score, 897." Here is the full list...
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    Forbes: College Basketball's Most Valuable Teams 2014

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2014/03/17/college-basketballs-most-valuable-teams-2014-louisville-cardinals-on-top-again/ The article mentions that North Carolina was once number 1, but now has fallen to 4 due in part to "changes associated with the ACC’s new TV deal".
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    Well, that was a shot across the bow

    "March Madness 2014: Who Got Screwed in the NCAA Bracket?": "the entire AAC got shafted". http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1995077-march-madness-2014-who-got-screwed-in-the-ncaa-bracket/page/4
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    Doris Burke

    That Doris Burke, she was just poured into that pantsuit.
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    Butler?

    Yes, I was thinking that before. They should have picked Wichita State instead. Wichita State has good tradition that predates recent years, unlike Butler. And they would have been a good travel partner with Creighton. Maybe they could have gotten Gonzaga and other western schools too to go...
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    For what it's worth, today I..

    One problem is that Connecticut is not contiguous with the Big 10 footprint. I think we should invade the Long Island peninsula and have the Long Island parliament vote to be annexed by Connecticut since many in the Long Island population are ethnic Connecticutians.
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    Delany

    I found a good article on this: http://msn.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/ncaa-rule-makes-secs-13-team-schedule-a-virtual-impossibility.php It turns out the MAC is breaking the rules but they just aren't being enforced.
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    Delany

    Right now, a big impediment for either the Big 10 or ACC to invite us is that they really need to invite a 16th member at the same time because the current rules for a championship game require you, for practical purposes, to have an even number of members. So first the problem is you need to...
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    As Predicted By Anyone With A Brain, The ACC Is NOT Getting A TV Network

    A whole lot has changed since last year, so I'm saying maybe Florida State might want to take one last shot before they lose any chance of leaving. Florida is the reason Florida State is not in the SEC, definitely not because the SEC doesn't think they can't support two teams from Florida...
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    As Predicted By Anyone With A Brain, The ACC Is NOT Getting A TV Network

    All conferences do that. But it's done for the school that would be the rival of the potential invitee. The only reason Florida State is not in the SEC right now is because Florida doesn't want them. You don't pass up a Florida State because you've got that territory covered. If Texas called...
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    As Predicted By Anyone With A Brain, The ACC Is NOT Getting A TV Network

    This might or might not be a big deal, but it still looks bad for the ACC to be lumped in with all those midmajor conferences. Why aren't the Big Ten, Big 12, PAC 12, or SEC included in this announcement? They all have games on WatchESPN. Maybe there really is something to the Maryland...
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    If Cincy were to leave...who would replace them???

    We need to hurry up and kick Temple out again. That way when Cincinnati leaves we can invite them back.
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    Discouraging, But you Never Can Tell...

    ACC schools still get to keep some tier 3 rights, but not the valuable ones. If you're going to count t-shirt sales and other merchandising, you have to count it for everyone to make it a fair comparison.
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    Discouraging, But you Never Can Tell...

    Here's a good article about tier 3 rights and the ACC: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/06/04/the-accs-third-tier-rights-and-why-theyre-killing-the-conference/ The reason why this deal was considered so bad for the ACC is that tier 3 is really valuable for basketball schools...
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    Judge green-lights O'Bannon suit

    http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10494008/ed-obannon-class-action-antitrust-lawsuit-vs-ncaa-go-trial
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    Data Breach at Maryland

    I'll bet that Edward Snowden is somehow mixed up in this.
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    Have you ever seen one of those movies...

    Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
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    Maryland’s $157 million counterclaim: ACC recruited B1G schools

    The problem is that they really have to be liquidated damages. They can't just call them liquidated damages. If the true liquidated damages are less, then paying more would be punitive. There are people from the ACC who have publicly said Louisville was an upgrade. That makes it hard to...
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    Heard on WHUS today...

    What I think is important to understand is that Florida State would be just the first step in Big 12 expansion. First the Big 12 invites Florida State. Then the Big 12 says "We are happy at 11 schools. 11 is such a great number. We can't possibly imagine ever expanding again. But we will...
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    Heard on WHUS today...

    Very interesting, btstimpy. Good find. Yes, the Miami AD comments are a little suspicious. What prompted him to come out today saying how much he loves the ACC? Does anyone think that just came out of the blue? No way. He probably got wind about Florida State leaving. He doesn't want...
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    Heard on WHUS today...

    Yesterday we have the rumor from the radio station about Florida State and the Big 12. And today we something from a West Virginia newspaper with Luck saying "Big 12 happy at 10 teams": http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/583303/Luck--Big-12-happy-at-10-teams.html?nav=5064...
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    NCAA exploring Big 5 conference autonomy

    I don't know how the stipends would work, but hopefully sanity will prevail and the stipends won't have to go to every student athlete. That way, schools can just use the stipends for the sports they choose to use them for, normally just football and men's basketball. If I were still a...
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    Maryland Lawsuit

    That’s what Rockefeller said, but the Supreme Court is not swallowing it.
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    ASU's Steve Patterson will be next AD at Texas

    S W A I M has been tweeting today about the possibility of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State moving to the PAC-12. He says that it would only take 40% of the schools leaving to nullify the Big 12 GOR. I think he's wrong, but I haven't been able to find out what percentage it...
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