Conference carousel to start spinning again?

How about one more:

It gets more interesting: there are rumblings from the West Coast that Larry Scott is seizing on this opportunity, urging Oklahoma, OSU, Texas Tech and Texas to reconsider and join the Pac-12 after all. We would witness the first bona fide super conference if he pulls that off. Scott thinks he can make it work financially and may make a run at those Big XII schools to hard sell them on his idea.

Scott actually put the following tweet out tonight: "RT @GeorgeSchroeder: Larry Scott texts on Big 12 upheaval "''m very busy & fully focused on development of the PAC-12. That's all I can say.'"

Interesting take dash. Well done.

What about the ACC saying, screw it...nobody follows of our football anyway and the three schools they took from the BE, go back to the BE?

Meaning, BC, VaTech and Miami head back to the BE and the ACC becomes a basketball conference.

Or is there no way the ACC falls back on this idea of football expansion because of money?

You have to think whatever the schools in the BE that don't have football do, they are going to lose a lot of money.

Also, what happens with Villanova and Temple?

It's going to get really interesting. And more importantly, fun.

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Yes, especially since I THINK the worst Xavier can do is come out even. And there's the ever so sumptuous possibility that things could get much, much better for X.

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My only concern is the possibility of Temple getting pulled out. Also, with Charlotte getting into the football game what happens with them?

I think you are right, at worst we should come out even. That would sorta suck though.

Looks like Pac 12 and SEC have both invited Oklahoma(Allegedly) and Texas Tech in direct talks with Pac 12


RIP Big 12

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Interesting take dash. Well done.

What about the ACC saying, screw it...nobody follows of our football anyway and the three schools they took from the BE, go back to the BE?

Meaning, BC, VaTech and Miami head back to the BE and the ACC becomes a basketball conference.

Or is there no way the ACC falls back on this idea of football expansion because of money?

You have to think whatever the schools in the BE that don't have football do, they are going to lose a lot of money.

Also, what happens with Villanova and Temple?

It's going to get really interesting. And more importantly, fun.

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Everyone is still attempting to solve for football. I have to imagine that it drives Swofford - The ACC Commish - insane that he essentially has to operate in the shadow of the SEC. Believe me, I witnessed it directly from here and have many friends aligned with both conferences.

Consider when he took the ACC to 12 teams and put its football championship game together. They initially staged it here in Jacksonville. The first year was okay, because one of the teams that made it travelled well and was one of the larger state schools. Now imagine what it was like in the Gator Bowl when BC showed up against Wake! I don't recall attendance making it to 40k for that one. In the meantime, the SEC is up in Atlanta hooting it up in front of a packed house.

This is still about football, which is why I think he could get creative and proactive here and invite those 3 schools. Again, he wanted 'Cuse anyway, during the first go around. Why not pick up Rutgers and Pitt and see if he can last with that 14 team format for a while?

As for your question regarding Nova and Temple. In my opinion, it's way too late for Nova. With this amount of motion going on and with the programs that are in play as a result of it, what in essence is a small, "start-up" in a predominantly pro-sports town doesn't have an ice cubes chance in hell.

Temple? Temple might end up with WVU, UC, UL, etc. in some kind of modified C-USA conference that will be screaming at the top of its lungs for AQ treatment. Their problem is that the remaining BCS conferences will place them in a sound proof room for their screaming sessions.

Poor UC. So close, yet so far, like their score in the last Orange Bowl.

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RIP Big 12

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Nice try. Hello UNLV, Wyoming, Tulane and New Mexico. Obviously.

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Nice try. Hello UNLV, Wyoming, Tulane and New Mexico. Obviously.

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Partially correct. I think instead of Wyoming they should invite Southwest Texas State Southern of Corpus Christi though. Sorry

West Virginia needs to get into the ACC then.

If FSU leaves and goes to the SEC, then there really has to be the end of BE football right? There simply wouldn't be enough teams.

The BE would have to turn to East Carolina or something.

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Nice try. Hello UNLV, Wyoming, Tulane and New Mexico. Obviously.

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It's not that easy. It's not about "plug and play." It has to make sense to television. If it doesn't make sense to television, it most likely won't happen.

The best teams remaining in the impaled league will consider their options outside of that league first. As an example, assuming other factors, wouldn't you think that a school like Mizzou would want to see what Pitt thinks before it considers getting in bed with a school like Tulane? If your answer is no, then consider that Kansas has been quietly talking with the BE for a while now as it is.

They may try to salvage something regionally, but, similar to the BE's current problem when it comes to replacements, their pickings will be thin.

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West Virginia needs to get into the ACC then.

If FSU leaves and goes to the SEC, then there really has to be the end of BE football right? There simply wouldn't be enough teams.

The BE would have to turn to East Carolina or something.

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I don't think WVU could make it into the ACC due to their academic profile, but I could be wrong. I guess you could argue they would simply be replacing Bowden's latter program with his former one.