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re: Realignment...B1G going after 2 more ACC schools?
Posted on 2/19/13 at 4:50 pm to KaiserSoze99
Posted on 2/19/13 at 4:50 pm to KaiserSoze99
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By "Big Business" I mean the ADs, Slive, and TV execs want compelling matchups on as many TVs as possible. They want as big a footprint as possible for the so-to-be-announced SEC Network.
Of course, you think I haven't been hearing this since 1992? I'm tired of hearing it. I want to re-focus on what the actual fans want - you know, the consumers.
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Compelling matchups DO MATTER in the business scheme
Meh, not so much.
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Both these factors must be weight when considering adding new members:
1. compelling matchups
2. as many TVs as possible
I don't have to think about any TVs besides the ones in my house when considering what teams I want to see added to the conference.
If you wanted me to guess which teams the conference heads would add, that's a different question.
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So, while I agree that FSU is compelling, it does not add the TVs that VT would add. UNC would add the TVs, but not the matchups. Same with NC State, so it's a wash except that UNC has a big following in basketball, and I agree that the football program COULD come around.
So let me ask you, who would YOU want to see added to the conference?
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Posted on 2/19/13 at 5:11 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Who I WANT verse who we SHOULD add? Well, I want what keeps the SEC the badassedest conference evahhh. The teams that I WANT in the SEC are already here. The TV markets that KEEP the SEC head-and-shoulders above the rest is all that matters to me. The SEC already dominates recruiting. Just imagine getting the NC and Virginia markets. Every NON-SEC team would be second rate. It would be an impenetrable monopoly.
I wouldn't mind seeing VT, FSU, Miami, and GT, but not just to add them.
I wouldn't mind seeing VT, FSU, Miami, and GT, but not just to add them.
This post was edited on 2/19/13 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 2/20/13 at 10:28 am to WildTchoupitoulas
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So let me ask you, who would YOU want to see added to the conference?
Nobody. I don't want top expand any more.
No team in the nation has benefited more from conference realignment than A&M. We are getting maximum exposure in the SEC, while our geographic competition is stuck in a league that is being marginalized (not a single top 10 rated game last year). The longer things stay the way they are, the more it helps us.
Luckily I think the B1G doesn't want major disruption either no matter what the rumors say. They took a single team from the Big 12, Big East and ACC for a reason- they want other leagues to survive. Just like A&M they benefit greatly from the status quo as the richest league and the moment conference Armageddon hits maybe the reshuffle leaves them in a disadvantaged position.
If they wanted to end the ACC they would have taken two teams at one not just one.
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