Looks like UNC, Clemson, UVA, and Florida St are in negotiations to join the conference. Thoughts on the Turd Heels coming on board?
UNC to the SEC?
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This is gonna be insane. I love college football and basketball, I pray this makes it better somehow. I fear it's headed the opposite direction though. When everything becomes all about money, we the fans suffer.
Oh well we all knew the NCAA was screwed eventually. All we can do is watch it play out and hope it's still enjoyable to follow UK and college sports in general.
I want to go on record and say I'm not thrilled about the two super conferences we are heading towards. The SEC is just gonna be impossible especially in football
Oh well we all knew the NCAA was screwed eventually. All we can do is watch it play out and hope it's still enjoyable to follow UK and college sports in general.
I want to go on record and say I'm not thrilled about the two super conferences we are heading towards. The SEC is just gonna be impossible especially in football
Thoughts? I'll let this Dean's List scholar speak for me as to my opinion on UNC-Cheats as an institution with any honor or integrity.
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Hell, why don't we just have two conferences -- 100 teams each. Sheesh.
Selfishly I would like it if UNC, or even better NC St, were to join, giving me more chances to see the Cats. UVA and Clemson would be a bit easier (like USC is) being driveable distances. I live 5 minutes from where NC St plays.
I think those 4 would be good for basketball as a group, and solid in football.
Geographically they fit too.
And there are some big fanbases for tv and merchandise there.
I think those 4 would be good for basketball as a group, and solid in football.
Geographically they fit too.
And there are some big fanbases for tv and merchandise there.
I like it. At least they're universities in Southeastern states. As a Kentucky and Clemson alumnus, it would be interesting for me, but Blue is always number 1.
I think we will get to 2 super conferences of 24 to 32 teams each, with 90% of the bowl teams coming from those 2.
And yes, it is all about the money. But that does not mean the fans will lose. For example, it could mean 2 rounds of conference title games (if 4 divisions), so 3 games instead of 1.
Smart of you not to link the Twitter account that is spreading this rumor. Otherwise people would make fun of you for being gullible.
The source is a Twitter feed for SwimSwamNews, a swimming reporter from the the Northeast. He cites "sources" that claim ESPN wants to break the sweetheart deal they have lowballing the ACC, so they can immediately spend hundreds of millions more of their money.
This "news" has already been deleted 3 separate times on the college football reddit bc it is so blatantly BS.
Someone please get UK2KJAG some velcro shoes and a helmet.
You'll probably have to wait until actual news happens to find that out. This thread is about how one UK fan got suckered in to a bogus report from SwimSwamNews.
Someone needs to get you your binky and blanky....seems little troll boy woke up angry after nap time
Sounds scared don't he
Agree. Imagine a home and home with UK and UNC every year. Bluest of the blue bloods would be a big draw every game.
you are spot on, love the college game, they will destroy it like they have destroyed EVERYTHING else they touch sadly and I sadly believe that our programs will be average at best every year with an outlier every once in a while. Hope I am wrong big time.
Where did you see that? That would be nuts and I would be for those teams if we had to.
Money is in tv contracts too. UNC has 2 markets that are big enough to be top ten. Plus they have one of the largest alumni bases. Lots of money.
I kind of figured UNC and UVA would go to the Big 10. Both have always struck me as thinking themselves academically above the SEC.
Geez, we have to pray for a team to switch conferences to get a decent “OOC” team at Rupp for Coach Cal.
National brand, regardless. They sell merch all over the country. I see kids everywhere in Carolina blue.
And great market. Charlotte and Raleigh are both top 25 in the US.
Great basketball and decent football.
They bring in the money. In that aspect they fit with the SEC.
Cawood Ledford would be ashamed to see what you consistently post and associate with his name.
And the money from athletics and academics is better in the B1G.
Less about academically above the SEC. More about the billions of dollars they have made through academic cooperation and research programs with other ACC schools, and how the B1G can replicate that while the SEC schools can not. Football may drive giant TV revenue paychecks, but Academics still brings in more money.
The B1G likes it’s research but so does a bunch of SEC schools. The B1G did the smart thing with markets. The SEC went after football brands first. We will see which one is the better model. So far both are happy and very healthy conferences.
Some ACC schools may wind up in the SEC eventually but the OP is posting a current twitter prank.
They have about the same size student population as UK. How do they have one of the largest alumni bases? Pretty influential, though. I’ll grant you they have a lot of deep pocket donors.
"Bunch" is hyperbole. The SEC will have 3 total AAU schools when Texas officially joins. 3 schools out of 16.
Both are state schools. UNC is part, the primary school, of a 9 school state university system. BUT, probably due in part to it's higher academic standing, UNC brings in more out-of-state students than does UK for a broader alumni base.
I wish we could leave them hanging.
Hate the Heels.
I don't want that crappy color of blue in the SEC. This is our conference. Keep the hot, smelling garbage away from the penthouse.
Hate the Heels.
I don't want that crappy color of blue in the SEC. This is our conference. Keep the hot, smelling garbage away from the penthouse.