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Conference Expansion: Stanford, California and SMU Join the ACC

Not sure how to post tweets but Mike Silver of the SF Chronicle tweeted earlier today that Wake, Syracuse and VT “were positive forces in recent days” in drumming up the necessary votes. He’s a legit reporter and has like 200k followers so that’s kinda cool to hear.
 
KidA23 said:
Not sure how to post tweets but Mike Silver of the SF Chronicle tweeted earlier today that Wake, Syracuse and VT “were positive forces in recent days” in drumming up the necessary votes. He’s a legit reporter and has like 200k followers so that’s kinda cool to hear.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
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Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
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dc9deac said:
Sad heel should blame the abandonment of OK St, Wazzou, and Oregon St.

That had to inform NCSU's "switch in time that saved nine" times two.
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The list of states in which the flagship and “state” university have been together and in the same FBS conference for the last 50 years will be pretty short after all this shakes down.

UNC/State
Alabama/Auburn
Mississippi/Miss State
Kansas/Kansas State
(Arizona/Arizona State moving together)

Gotta imagine State realized they could be next.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Yeah I posted this on Twitter but the naysayers to this deal really fall into three categories:

1. The Nostalgic ("I want the ACC to be back to 8 schools and any change sucks")
2. The Unrealistic ("I want SEC/Big 10 teams and/or schools that are stuck in a GOR from another conference")
3. The Departed ("This makes it harder for my team to actively tank and dissolve the conference")
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1-A. Conference was better before they let Ga Tech in. Go back to 7 schools.
 
KidA23 said:
Not sure how to post tweets but Mike Silver of the SF Chronicle tweeted earlier today that Wake, Syracuse and VT “were positive forces in recent days” in drumming up the necessary votes. He’s a legit reporter and has like 200k followers so that’s kinda cool to hear.
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Get in good with the new guys. Get some of that Silicon Valley money over to MSD.
 
PhDeac said:
The list of states in which the flagship and “state” university have been together and in the same FBS conference for the last 50 years will be pretty short after all this shakes down.

UNC/State
Alabama/Auburn
Mississippi/Miss State
Kansas/Kansas State
(Arizona/Arizona State moving together)

Gotta imagine State realized they could be next.
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Michigan
Indiana/Purdue
 
Today is the best day for Wake Forest sports in years. It really is. We dodged disaster.

I wish the ACC and Wake Forest had chosen to win in basketball. But clearly that is an extreme minority view. This is just great though that we stay at the table of major college athletics. And the new paradigm means we probably get to land in tier 2 next time with the other left overs -- a far better fate than we were staring at.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
If anything you know that this was the right move because it has that dumb fuck jhmd in such a tizzy.
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Clinging to a short term deal because you don't think beyond your fear might be the most lowf thing I have ever heard of. Wake has the most leverage in its history but screw it, who needs a long term plan, right?
 
WokeandBroke said:
Clinging to a short term deal because you don't think beyond your fear might be the most lowf thing I have ever heard of. Wake has the most leverage in its history but screw it, who needs a long term plan, right?
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I jumped in late

What was your long-term proposal?
 
thatguy2016 said:
here in the real world, there is no scenario in which we can boot Pitt, Syracuse, BC and remain an 11-team ACC. It can't happen. And if teams leave the ACC to form a new league, WF in all likelihood would not be invited. No need to discuss furhter because you aren't dealing in reality.
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No, the ACC should turn to charter schools, and parental choice in education, and two parent households and should it start by learning THE lesson of the 2016 election.
 
Any predictions on how the football schedules/rivals/pods will be set up
 
The easiest would be 9 games and a 2-7-7 model.

8 games is tough.
 
the easiest way would be 8 teams on, 8 teams off and then switch the next year. But that interrupts rival games and would never happen.
 
PhDeac said:
The list of states in which the flagship and “state” university have been together and in the same FBS conference for the last 50 years will be pretty short after all this shakes down.

UNC/State
Alabama/Auburn
Mississippi/Miss State
Kansas/Kansas State
(Arizona/Arizona State moving together)

Gotta imagine State realized they could be next.
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Obviously it hasn't been 50 years but we also have this with UVa / VT basically
 
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