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Just reported South Carolina applied to the Big East?
Just reported South Carolina applied to the Big East?
At the rate things are going it wouldn't surprise me if Coastal Carolina was in the Big East soon
What is USCe's US News Academic ranking? That's important.Just reported South Carolina applied to the Big East?
Channel 30 had the "exclusive, breaking news" that a source in the ACC says that league wants UConn but that it's waiting for ND to make a final decision on whether or not to join a conference.
I have a sense that ND is on a time line. Probably something like - you have until Sunday to decide or we are moving on. I don't see the ACC waiting forever on ND. I see a definite date that ND must decide, in or out.
If only this were true, I would actually get enough sleep at night, instead of staying up late, reading every forum, blog, tweet and message board I can find discussing realignment.I have a sense that ND is on a time line. Probably something like - you have until Sunday to decide or we are moving on. I don't see the ACC waiting forever on ND. I see a definite date that ND must decide, in or out.
I have a sense that ND is on a time line. Probably something like - you have until Sunday to decide or we are moving on. I don't see the ACC waiting forever on ND. I see a definite date that ND must decide, in or out.
If only this were true, I would actually get enough sleep at night, instead of staying up late, reading every forum, blog, tweet and message board I can find discussing realignment.
It probably is not Sunday. Think about it, Syracuse and Pitt need to wait 27 months which brings us to December 2013. However this is mid-school year, so their release isn't applicable until 2014. Now I agree the conference probably won't exist until then, but for theorys sake a team declaring a conference move in March 2012 has the same effect of a conference declaring a move September 2011. Notre Dame knows this and really the ACC cant wait past then (or at worst May 2012, which would have the same effect as the team could leave in the beginning of August without schoolyear interference), but on the other hand the ACC cant force Notre Dames hand until that point.
Which is why we just have to take every program, including Memphis, that would make Knute Rockne's skin crawl, and leave the onlies behind. Call it the Big Eats conference or something like that. Actually, Knute Rockne was not an elitist , his team would play anybody, anytime, and they didn't care about US News and World Report college rankings. We have to not provide any type of home for the Irish non-revs. Let's go Big Eats!!!Just what I thought. ND gonna screw us. They will want to keep us in the BE so BE stays afloat to give them a place to park their non-revenue sports. If they just come out and say they don't want to join any conference and will park their sports with Catholic schools, it might help. The problem is Catholic schools don't play enough sports to give ND a full schedule. They gonna have to park some sports elsewhere if they want to join with Catholic schools. I don't feel good that our fate is tied to ND.
Why? What would their impetus be to force ND into a decision? It's not like the B10 is walking in that door for UConn and Rutgers. We'll be there, waiting, whenever they want.
I am going through the same thing. My mind is about to go blank. There are so much noise and crap out there to make you dizzy for the next 10 years.
I don't think ND is going to screw us. There are two scenerios:Just what I thought. ND gonna screw us. They will want to keep us in the BE so BE stays afloat to give them a place to park their non-revenue sports. If they just come out and say they don't want to join any conference and will park their sports with Catholic schools, it might help. The problem is Catholic schools don't play enough sports to give ND a full schedule. They gonna have to park some sports elsewhere if they want to join with Catholic schools. I don't feel good that our fate is tied to ND.
Why? What would their impetus be to force ND into a decision? It's not like the B10 is walking in that door for UConn and Rutgers. We'll be there, waiting, whenever they want.
ND has pretty much indicated that they prefer the ACC.But with all the fog around this issue it is difficult to know what the truth is.They might have informed ND that if they don't join the ACC, ND will not have a BE to play in soon.
Of course ND is more interested in the Big10 so they won't be cowed.
My big nightmare is ND and Rutgers to the Big10.
Talk about being Fuuked.They might have informed ND that if they don't join the ACC, ND will not have a BE to play in soon.
Of course ND is more interested in the Big10 so they won't be cowed.
My big nightmare is ND and Rutgers to the Big10.