"We're excited because it creates a matchup of the two most successful conferences in the post-season," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said from his office in Birmingham. "Given the fact that we're transitioning into the four-team playoff, we thought it was a good chance to create a very meaningful game."
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19084239/sec-big-12-agree...
This reeks of "I'm taking my new ball home and you can't play with it anymore." As sick of expansion talk as I am, I am now nearing that same level of disgruntledness with our continual rationalization of VT's membership in the ACC. I know fit, academics, volleyball teams having to charter flights, whatever...but this is getting old for me.
Anyone else feel the same?
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"We're excited because it creates a matchup of the two most successful conferences in the post-season,"
We aint exactly helping the ACC in that department. Think about it, we're 2-4 last six bowl games that aint our conference affiliation's fault. I just think the fanbases of the football schools of the ACC who feel like life would be so much better in another conference need to look in the mirror and realize if they had been more successful on the field the last decade the perception (which translates to income) would be much better.
Anyways, we fought for 50 years to get into the ACC should we leave a few years into it because were chasing money? Start winning some big games VT, FSU, Miami, and Clemson and our position will improve. Think about the PAC-10 of the 90s, pretty weak. USC gets itself back on track, Stanford and Oregon improve because they're competing with the best every year. Now they've got a lucrative contract, nationally recognized programs and several up and comers.
Maybe I just think the rest of college football needs to join arms and stand against the $EC. Of course that opinion would change if we did make the jump. . . and I would be pumped.
I hear you but
knee jerk reactions aside, the fact that we are losing and not doing it makes me want to jump more. I don't want to spend another 50 years trying to get into another conference because we lack credibility, the Big East days where we had to listen to our "who have they played" criticims were horrible.
Honestly, I would rather everything just stay the same. We are currently positioned to be in control of our destiny year in and year out. But if any of the ACC has-beens bolt, we should get out while the getting is good because that won't be the case anymore.
Screw the ACC
As Long As We're Putting These Here
Bowl envy
The College bowl arm$ race. It is enough to make me not want to watch. These kinds of agreements start to cross the line of fair play, collusion, anti-trust laws, and a host of other bad things. I think it is a bluff. B$G 12 and $EC trying to apply leverage to guarantee their place in any playoff system. The rest of us need to stand up against it rather than try to take the side of the bullys.