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re: The B1G and SEC want UNC, so who wins the prize?

Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:41 pm to
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
4435 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:41 pm to
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The P2 will breakaway and when the teams they want become available, nothing the Senate can do about it.


The Senate is only one house of Congress and can do very little on its own about anything.
Posted by Timstrebor
Member since Nov 2021
116 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:42 pm to
If FSU gets AAU, why wouldn’t the Big 10 want them?

They’re a good school now and are the most watched not in the P2 outside of ND
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23902 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:35 pm to
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This is if they are going to 2 conferences. In that case, I can't see Texas being the limit we go west.



Geographically, where would you stop?
If it's down to only 2 conferences, you don't worry about geography.

Let me ask you this, if you can take the ACC powers, and one of the conditions would be that Notre Dame comes along (they have ACC ties), do you ignore Notre Dame? I'd bring them in, because the alternative is they go to the Big 10. Notre Dame would be a dagger to the Big 10.

I'm looking at this like it's a game of Risk, the goal isn't 2 conferences. It's one, which replaces the NCAA at this level.


Posted by Tiger2tiga
Member since Sep 2023
1488 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:35 pm to
The government always can do something. Threaten schools with education funds and they will definitely back down.
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
22042 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:41 pm to
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UNC and UVa

Nobody else should be considered at all.


Would love to add these. Two new states and markets. Great schools, good athletics in "other sports", and UNC obviously has basketball and an enormously valuable brand. UVA has a hugely influential alumni base in the DC and Northeast markets.

I don't want Clemson or FSU.
This post was edited on 6/29/26 at 1:42 pm
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
24602 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:46 pm to
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So, Emory is going to jump from D-III all that to D-I. Okay.

I suppose they are going to start an FBS football team, too.


A post legislation southern Ivy League wouldn't be making primary membership decisions based on FBS football teams, they'd be operating more akin to the way the actual Ivy League does.

Whether Emory actually ends up a member or not of a hypothetical collegiate conference really makes no difference to me because Im not an alumni, but they certainly would fit from an academic profile standpoint and if they could get into that type of group I'm sure it would be worth fielding a low level football team.
Posted by BrodyDad
Member since Dec 2025
372 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 2:16 pm to
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EV
FSU, Georgia Tech, Miami, Stanford, Cal, and Arizona State ---> Big 10

Clemson, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Duke ---> SEC


If GT had not been a charter member and bailed, would everyone consider them a better fit for the SEC? How much does the fact that Dodd's ego walked them out of the conference matter?

As a Dawg fan, I take no pleasure in saying this, but I think Brent Key will do a lot with them and it would not take much to get basketball turned around either with the guy they hired. Baseball is already a national contender.
Posted by Sooner a Reb
Maryland
Member since Jan 2017
2487 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 3:11 pm to
Agreed! They are both flagship schools for the state they are in.
Posted by Sooner a Reb
Maryland
Member since Jan 2017
2487 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 3:15 pm to
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It was a great coup by the B1G, even Sankey would have jumped at the chance to add Los Angeles.
I think this fails in the end. The geography is horrible, the culture is horrible.
Posted by BuckI
Grove City, Ohio
Member since Oct 2020
7573 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 4:09 pm to
California is a recruiting hotbed and a major market. Plus, USC has the most tradition of anyone west of the Mississippi River.
Posted by ClassicCityAlum
Palm Beach, FL
Member since Mar 2019
921 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 4:24 pm to
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The B1G would NEVER add fsu


You mean FSU would never want to join the B10. FSU has better academics than many B10 schools (Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State, Oregon, Ohio State, debatably Wisconsin), better athletics than most B10 schools, a larger TV market, and a far more promising future in the fastest growing state in the country (next to Texas).
Posted by BuckI
Grove City, Ohio
Member since Oct 2020
7573 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 4:29 pm to
Ohio State has the most alumni and number of fans in the sport.
Posted by southernboisb
Member since Dec 2012
10047 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 6:35 pm to
Hope y'all & the ACC enjoy all that cross country travelling.
Posted by southernboisb
Member since Dec 2012
10047 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 6:36 pm to
& (at least 1 of) the biggest factor of travel distance.
Posted by southernboisb
Member since Dec 2012
10047 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 6:40 pm to
No, I'ld welcome ND in.
Posted by BuckI
Grove City, Ohio
Member since Oct 2020
7573 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 7:11 pm to
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Hope y'all & the ACC enjoy all that cross country travelling.
We only visit the west coast once.
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
10057 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 7:17 pm to
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UVA is the actual boss of that conference


It’s their cool football uni’s with the crossed swords on the helmet.
Posted by southernboisb
Member since Dec 2012
10047 posts
Posted on 6/29/26 at 10:35 pm to
You may only once. But you're not USC, Washington, nor Oregon.
Posted by Lonnie Utah
Utah!
Member since Jul 2012
35174 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:19 am to
You can have those liberal badtards.
Posted by VooDude
Member since Aug 2017
3563 posts
Posted on 6/30/26 at 4:26 am to
Rumor has it that UNC, FSU and Miami want to go to the B1G because it’s a superior conference academically, athletically and soon to be monetarily after the next TV deal.

Numbers and head to head wins against the SEC don’t lie.

I think B1G lets Clemson go to the SEC since they’re not quite up to par.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 4:31 am
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