Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[ScriptOhio]

Cincinnati sends Christmas cards to ACC presidents

Cincinnati wants the ACC to know about their upcoming stadium renovations, sending presidents of ACC schools videos detailing the $70 million project - as well as Christmas cards about the upgrades.

The Bearcats were left behind in the Big East, a conference which was decimated in the recent wave of conference expansions. Now, it's just Cincinnati, UConn, and some newcomers like Tulane and East Carolina - far from a power conference. It's no surprise Cincinnati wants out - hence the Christmas cards.

The $70 million expansion to Nippert Stadium will add box seats, loges, and private suites to the stadium. A new Big East TV contract reeled in just $30 million for the whole conference, while ACC schools will easily make over $10 million per school on TV rights.

Entire article: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/...ing-Nippert-expansion?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Tarheel will shut its mouth. Tarheel will apply the lotion to its skin. Otherwise, Tarheel gets the hose.

And anyone who wants to go post this on a Tarheel board wins positive rep from me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww

We are the Big Ten. Lower your shields and surrender your universities. We will add your academic and athletic distinctivness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

That guy is a fucking retard!!!

People say that they?re a fan of a school not a conference, but let?s not pretend that it doesn?t matter who you play. Would Ohio State fans really be happy with a Mountain West schedule? No, they wouldn?t. Would Clemson fans be happy with a CUSA schedule? Absolutely not. The conference that a school is in is just as important as the school itself. A win over Bowling Green would not be as exciting to me as a win over Duke.A conference is the school?s identity. It determines over 60% of matchups in each sport. Schools grouped together to begin with because they had common goals and characteristics. That?s why I wouldn?t be happy with my school in the Big Ten. I?d rather be in the Big 12, SEC or Pac-12 than the Big 10 because honestly, there are more interesting opponents in each of those conferences. We have more in common. But above all, I want to stay in the ACC because that?s where we belong.

He constantly mentions games against Iowa or Minnesota. Uh, do the Tarheels fans give a shit about the game against BC, Va. Tech, Da U (this year, maybe), Wake Forest, Clemson, Ga. Tech, UVA, etc. They should love coming to the B1G for some year in year out basketball competition from more than the same school.

 

[Muck]

He deleted my post but left ORD's.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Cincinnati sends Christmas cards to ACC presidents

The juggalos are fucked to the extreme. They've racked up an unsustainable level of debt building up their athletic program, and now they need to land somewhere that will provide enough television money to keep them solvent.

If they're left coming out of the bathroom with nothing but their dick in their hands when realignment is finished, all these renovations will have been throwing good money after bad. It could be a scenario so rotten that Ohio taxpayers will have to bail them out.

 

[VBSJ]

Just read some North Carolina message boards and they really do not want to join the Big Ten.

One thing though, about the cold weather, I don't honestly think it's that cold when the Big Ten plays the last regular season game (but I grew up in Ohio).

But seems like UNC fans, donors, alumni would rather join the SEC (if they had to move).

I don't really know if it's people who are thinking short-term rather than long-term in relation to not wanting to join the Big Ten and staying in the ACC. Or those who don't want to see their history die or something.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Just read some North Carolina message boards and they really do not want to join the Big Ten.

One thing though, about the cold weather, I don't honestly think it's that cold when the Big Ten plays the last regular season game (but I grew up in Ohio).

But seems like UNC fans, donors, alumni would rather join the SEC (if they had to move).

I don't really know if it's people who are thinking short-term rather than long-term in relation to not wanting to join the Big Ten and staying in the ACC. Or those who don't want to see their history die or something.

I'm not too hip to them joining either.
I imagine my opinion carries the same weight as theirs. Not much.

 

[Muck]

 

[VBSJ]

Honest Question:

Can ACC fans really attack the Big Ten for trying to destroy a conference when the ACC has expanded with 6-7 Big East schools?

The Big East is more/less no more.

 

[Muck]

Can ACC fans really attack the Big Ten for trying to destroy a conference when the ACC has expanded with 6-7 Big East schools?

Sure they can but it doesn't mean they have a moral leg to stand on when they do it.

 

[Dryden]

Honest Question:

Can ACC fans really attack the Big Ten for trying to destroy a conference when the ACC has expanded with 6-7 Big East schools?

Honest question: Does anybody really care what 30,000 ACC fans think?

What kills me about that TarHeel blog mentioned earlier is the suggestion that all the ACC needs to do is strike up a deal with ESPN for a national network like LHN or BTN or something else ... you know, because when you have a product you literally can't give away in your local market, it stands to reason it'd be a financial success if you take it national.

http://www.theesportsblog.com/2012/12/nobody-went-and-nobody-watched/

 

[ScriptOhio]

Honest Question:

Can ACC fans really attack the Big Ten for trying to destroy a conference when the ACC has expanded with 6-7 Big East schools?

The Big East is more/less no more.

To the ACC: (looks like the writing is on the wall) say goodbye to UVA & UNC and hello to UConn & the UC "bearcraps".

 

[Buckeyefrankmp]

One thing though, about the cold weather, I don't honestly think it's that cold when the Big Ten plays the last regular season game (but I grew up in Ohio).

If the B1G added UNC, UVA and GT we would go into a pod system of some sort. The southern schools of the B1G could avoid most of the very northern schools during late November. I don't see weather as an issue.

 

[darbypitcher22]

I would love to see all three of those schools join. Raises the league's profile in a lot of non-revenue sports as well

 

[Mike80]

If the B1G added UNC, UVA and GT we would go into a pod system of some sort. The southern schools of the B1G could avoid most of the very northern schools during late November. I don't see weather as an issue.

The thing is though, it won't be an odd number. If they add 1, they will end up adding two....and if they add 3, it will end up being 4...

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

I would love to see all three of those schools join. Raises the league's profile in a lot of non-revenue sports as well

Look out soccer and lacrosse with all of the additions. On the bright side, UC will finally get into the ACC. Thos Christmas cards may have worked after all.