FSU and Clemson to Big XII?

http://www.leatherhelmetblog.com/2012-articles/february/big-12-waiting-on-clemson-and-fsu.html

Doubt they'll go and so, according to this article, Louisville will be with us at least through this summer. Rutgers football news' account on twitter postulates that if the ACC pair move, UConn and Rutgers would get into the ACC by summer.

And people tell me I'm nuts? If I was them, I'd bolt for the greener pastures.

Why wouldn't they go? If the article is correct, FSU and Clemson would be doubling their revenue and that's AFTER the TV revenue increase as a result of Cuse and Pitt joining.
If those TV revenue projections are in fact correct for the Big XII, I would be suprised if they did not go. Then we wouldn't have to worry about FSU not wanting us in due to our football shortcomings.

That would seem to be the best case scenario for UConn.

W0rse Case: The ACC loses it's two best football programs and further weakens the ACC brand.
Best Case: Rutgers and UConn are there to become members 13 and 14 playing essentially what would be the old Big East + Carolinas, Virginias and Maryland.

It wasnt that long ago that the Big 12 had all the drama and almost collapsed. Longhorn network and the favoritism of Texas still has to be in the air over there. Curious how these moves would look in a few years

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Payback is a b*tch. The ACC being the raided instead of the raider would be sweet justice. My only qualm is that the Thunder Chickens would get their wish & the replacements would be Snooki & the Leprechauns while effectively shutting out the Huskies.

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I don't blame WV for jumping to B12, although I wish they'd be a more adult about how they handle themselves. I would not blame the Ville either. But I remain adamant that the B12 is a dead man walking. TX is the 800 lb elephant in the room, and they will continue to put themselves above the conference. All the while, OU continues to pine for the days when they regularly see the Pacific Ocean. OSU is tied to OU; TTU to TX. The Pac12 is not staying at 12, period and they have limited places to turn. TX will eventually try to play off the Pac12,BIG and SEC against each other in search of a sweetheart deal. They might even try to go independent. But they will continue to play with their conference mates for only as long as they are allowed to live by different rules - they are to the B12 what ND is to the BE, a royal pain in the arse who sets its own terms. The B12 is the midwest version of the BE - they are mere hunting grounds for other conferences. The only difference is that they have bigger names in their conference, for the moment. IMO by the time the toothless hillbillies from coal country learn how to spell B12, they'll realize they found fool's gold and that the water of plenty Oliver sold them on was merely a mirage. AND NO WAY IN HELL DO FSU OR CLEMSON jump on that sinking ship - they would go to the SEC in a heartbeat; they are not B12 bound, period.

Despite the money differential, I'd have to think Clemson and FSU see themselves as more successful programs (W-L) if they stay in a weaker conference. Adding 4-6 losses per year if they run to the Big12, even if it survives is a risky endeavour. MOe money/more losses. WHich way do they go?

For all our pouting about the NBE, we have a chance to finish near the top if our program contiues its trajectory - same is we move to the ACC. Big10 or 12 I think we'd really struggle to be .500.

I think everybody needs to drop this knee jerk reaction of wanting to go to the ACC. What really makes you think the ACC is better than the Big East moving forward? Seriously? It's not. The only reason the ACC would be an attractive home for UConn athletics is if the Big East conference stops doing business. There's a very powerful force out there in intercollegiate athletics, that doesn't want the Big East to go away. N.D.

Notre Dame is not going to the ACC. The only way Notre Dame ever joins a conference,any conference, in football, happens for one of two reasons. The creation of a national playoff system for a national champion that is based entirely on conference champions (and it would be so freaking easy to put it in place, if not for all the money that flows through the current BCS system). and #2, if the Big East conference fails to provide a home foe all of the other sports that Notre Dame needs to field, to maintain division 1-A status as a football program.

If the Big East conference stops playing football as a 1-A conference, and the 1-A teams all go elsewhere, Notre Dame would be forced to find another home for their sports, or go back to the headaches that drove Penn State and Miami to the Big East conference so many years ago. PSU didn't get in, Miami did. Notre Dame, 4 years after Miami, manged to join the Big East, but keep football separate with an individual broadcasting contract with NBC and bulding an individual relationship with the BCS.

Notre Dame, clearly, being in position they are with the Big East, is not going to let the Big East conference fail.

I'd take the ACC over the new BE going forward every day and twice on Sunday. It pains me to say that because I don't like the way the ACC has been allowed to punk the BE but it's not even close. The new BE is a crumbling house with a fresh coat of paint.

Not only this, but basketball is still kinda important to UConn. The ACC fits us better in BB and brings better games in all sports back to CT.

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