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  • From a guy fairly dialed in:

    Just got done texting a client of mine, he is saying GT is close to committing to the B1G.

    ...timing is after the ACC CCG since GT is in it. Probably next week.”

    Third party info:

    This is by an 'Insider' named Tuxedo Yoda:

    Just got off the phone with an East Coast journalist who wanted to exchange info about conference realignment. He has solid connections at several ACC schools and gets information about other conferences. I let him know what I am hearing from my Austin source in the Texas Athletics Department......a nice little quid pro quo.


    The highlights of my conversation with him that I can share:


    * Just like I have heard from the Austin side of things, he is hearing it on the East Coast - the Big 12 and the ACC football schools are talking. Behind the scene arrangements are being made on how to help them with exit fees. The Big 12 is being generous. It would be a surprise to this journalist, and to me, if some current ACC schools aren't in the Big 12 when the 2014 season kicks off. Interestingly enough, while these schools are in a wait & see mode, they aren't waiting on finding out Maryland's exit fee. They are waiting on.....


    *.....the Big 10. Every journalist on the East Coast has a different source telling them that the Big 10 will SOON add 2 more ACC schools. BC is being talked about but UNC, Ga Tech and UNC are the primary candidates. I'm sure that doesn't surprise you. What may surprise you is that Ga Tech may very well be on the top of the list. Who the Big 10 selects will have a trickle down effect on the SEC and the Big 12, regarding available teams, so things are in limbo for the moment....but it shouldn't last long.


    * The most interesting aspect of this drama is how this is playing out at FSU. Not so much their communications with the Big 12 (intermediaries {rich alumni} are regularly used in roles like this to offer deniability to University Presidents and ADs) but the communication between FSU board members. Most public universities can take board meetings into executive session where no written record is kept. That makes talking about realignment rather easy. Not so with FSU.....the Sunshine Laws in the State of Florida prohibit this. In fact, if 2 board members discuss state business anywhere under any circumstance, there is a legal requirement for a written record. As you can imagine, college realignment talk between board members has to be carried out in interesting ways through creative back-channels to cover everyone's ass. We are talking some James Bond **** here. It takes a little longer for FSU to process information and to react because of these shenanigans, and this has consequences for many entities in realignment. FSU is the blue ribbon addition for the Big 12, and Clemson and Miami are likely to follow the lead of the Seminoles. We are all going to have to be patient.


    I know a lot of Big 12 fans are worried about the conference being only at 10 members right now. I have always felt this concern was ill-founded. The Big 12 has the Grant of Rights, the Sugar Bowl tie-in with the SEC and 2 of the top 7 college football programs of all-time. Even the Big 12's most desired asset, Texas, is politically hand-cuffed to Baylor and Texas Tech and the LHN would make any transition all the more difficult. If that doesn't pacify you then I hope this post does. Some heavy-hitter additions are coming to the Big 12. The 2014 season will be something very special.


    ***ADDENDUM***
    I've had a lot of people email me the following question, "Why is Texas politically handcuffed to Baylor & Texas Tech but A&M was allowed to go free?"


    I'll admit, I was originally surprised that the Aggies were allowed to break free of the Texas cluster, considering the events that occurred right before the formation of the Big 12. Bottom line - it boils down to this: if Texas had left instead of A&M, would the Big 12 have stayed together? Of course not. If you are in a conference with Texas, you are guaranteed to always be in a top tier conference. This is the protection the Texas politicians were looking for when they anchored Baylor & Tech to Texas. This is why the Big 12 can endure multiple defections and still be one of the 4 power conferences. A&M is having a nice year, full of moral victories to last the Aggies a lifetime, but they are generations, at the earliest, away from being Texas.
    Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
    Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.

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    • Ga Tech is better addition than Maryland or Rutgers in terms of economics. They all suck in terms of making our sports more enjoyable, but that shark has already been jumped.

      Regardless, this motherfucking bubble is going to burst. Hard. The way that this ship is suddenly self destructing is unbelievable.
      Last edited by Hannibal; November 30, 2012, 09:09 AM.

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      • This whole situation reminds me of the Underpants Gnomes episodes from South Park...

        Step 1: Steal Underpants
        Step 2: ????????????????
        Step 3: Profit

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        • Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
          This whole situation reminds me of the Underpants Gnomes episodes from South Park...

          Step 1: Steal Underpants
          Step 2: ????????????????
          Step 3: Profit
          LOL yes...

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          • Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
            This whole situation reminds me of the Underpants Gnomes episodes from South Park...

            Step 1: Steal Underpants
            Step 2: ????????????????
            Step 3: Profit

            LMAO!!
            Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.

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            • I hadn't heard this...

              Kent State may get an automatic bid to a BCS bowl...

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              • Lots of smoke about GT to B10, okay only some smoke but what are everyones thoughts on this potential move? I personally don't like moving into SEC territory, that's a geographical misfit and taking a program that is #2 in its own state. Fit academically, athletically though to fit in other ways I think they'd need another southern university to move with them.

                Not recent but the only university most often throw out is Virginia, what are everyones thoughts on the adding of either of these two and both of these two together?

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                • Talent,

                  Good info about the Big XII pushing those ACC football schools, yet I think those programs are hoping for SEC invites and will wait some time (deadline to join on July 1st, 2014) before settling on the Big XII.

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                  • I'd pick UNC over Virginia.

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                    • I still want payback for this:

                      [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hyr4Di1_j4"]Lawrence Taylor's First QB Casualty - YouTube[/ame]

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                      • What about the geographic continuity rule? I mean, if you assume Ohio is northern Kentucky and Tennessee is southern Kentucky you might be able to argue it...

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                        • There's an awful lot of chatter about GT and UVA

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                          • Report: Georgia Tech approved by Big Ten to become 15th member

                            Just a day after the NCAA approved Georgia Tech's waiver to become a bowl team even if they finish 6-7, a report from an ACC writer indicates more Big Ten tectonic shift may be on the way.


                            By Luke Zimmermann on Nov 30, 10:48a 3

                            Could Georgia Tech be the next member of the Big Ten? - Josh D. Weiss-US PRESSWIRE

                            Just a day after the NCAA approved Georgia Tech's waiver to become a bowl team even if they finish 6-7, a report from an ACC writer indicates more Big Ten tectonic shift may be on the way.

                            So much for the Big Ten being happy at 14 (or not, based on that one anonymous Michigan administrator). The scuttlebutt for the last 12-16 hours has been that something was going on between Georgia Tech and the Big Ten regarding conference realignment, but it hasn't all come from sources you'd bank on being in the know. The first came yesterday evening when a West Virginia Mountaineers blog of all places reported that movement could be in the works:

                            Sources at Ohio State University tell me that GT has already applied to the Big 10 and received an offer. If that's true I would expect GT to decide shortly after the ACC championship game.

                            Not too terribly long after that, we saw some speculation in our own comment threads after an FM sports talk show host confirmed he was hearing similar:

                            Word from calls today is that another current #ACC team will announce a move with 7-10 days to the #B1G. This would be a HUGE domino.

                            Still, those were easy enough to dismiss. But with enough smoke, you have to eventually wonder how far the fire could be off. Today, 247Sports's Tim Matty reports that Georgia Tech to the Big Ten could be a thing after all:

                            Sources are indicating that the #B1G has approved #GT as its 15th member. Stay tuned... @CFravel247 @Clemson247

                            He'd back track a bit to those hounding him on Twitter not long after, but stay firm that he did believe something indeed was going on and the situation merited closer monitoring.

                            Besides the most interesting subtext (like, for one, how do all these guys from areas with little to nothing to do with the Big Ten have so many midwest athletics sources?), the other is why the league would move so soon with Maryland's legal battle with the ACC not even coming to a head yet. While I imagine the exit fees will get negotiated down out of court to something in the $20-25 million dollar range, even $50 million would be a lot for the Big Ten to ostensibly front for the likes of Maryland and Georgia Tech. All for the DC and Atlanta Big Ten alums living in those areas' eyeballs, one would have to speculate.

                            Even still, it'd be easy enough to dismiss since team #16 is no sure thing either (Boston College? Virginia? Are any of these athletic programs homeruns enough beyond simply a market standpoint to make all this shuffling truly beneficial?) But you also have to keep in mind that Jeff Ermann, the publisher of InsideMDSports, Maryland's 247sports representative that first broke the Maryland to the Big Ten story, had sources a week and a half ago indicating Georgia Tech was vying for an invite. It's probably worth continuing to take this all with a fairly large grain of salt, but with so many ostensibly unrelated individuals making similar claims, you have to at least wonder.

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                            Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.

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                            • Good and multiple sources have indicated GT's desire to join the B10, like Maryland, Clemson, FSU and others they feel out of place in the NC dominated, ACC without enough connection (e.g. rivalries) to its fellow members...

                              Haven't heard anything reliable about the B10 being interested in GT other than an old report they were on Delaney's short list before the B10's addition of Nebraska. To clear things up, there is NO rule that says any addition much be a border state to a current B10 university. B10 could Oregon if it wanted too...

                              ND and Texas have open invites and are no brainers who the B10 would always be willing to add; but who else (choose 2) would you like to join the B10? Virginia, NC, Duke, GT, Missouri, VT, Miami, Kansas, Pitt, Syracuse?

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                              • GT and NC
                                Atlanta, GA

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