UT and Kentucky to ACC in 2012/Don't Laugh!!

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#76
rockydoc said:
It looks like Missouri will, in the next year or so, be invited and agree to join the Big 10. This leaves an opening for Arkansas to rejoin the Big 12, which they have been wanting to do for years. This leaves the SEC with only eleven members and unable to have the very profitable SEC Championship game.

After the next football season, which will regretably be a losing one for Tennessee, the University will have two choices: 1) Stay in a conference where several schools (most notably Auburn, Alabama and LSU) are buying top recruits right and left, and be mediocre for years or 2) take their stellar basketball program to the ACC, which geographically makes more sense. I have no doubt that the Atlantic Coast Conference would welcome them with open arms, especially if UK also joined.
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Deirstone - have you been drinking and posting again?

(And FWIW, if the Big 12 does even bring in another team, don't be shocked if that big community college on the other end of the state at least gets a look.)
 
#79
#79
Missouri to Big 10, sure.
Arkansas to Big 12, ...maybe. Geographically it makes sense, and they have less traditional ties to the SEC than other teams I think.
The SEC would have no trouble bringing in another team (Clemson is my guess) to fill the empty spot if that happened.

The thing is, the UT AD doesn't really care about winning games, it cares about making money. Tenn is never going to be so bad at football that it costs us enough money to make going to the ACC worthwhile.

The only "plus" about going to the ACC is that we'd get to listen to some elites tell us how much better their school is academically all week, followed by a Saturday beat down. It would be Vandy week EVERY week!
 
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rockydoc said:
It looks like Missouri will, in the next year or so, be invited and agree to join the Big 10. This leaves an opening for Arkansas to rejoin the Big 12, which they have been wanting to do for years. This leaves the SEC with only eleven members and unable to have the very profitable SEC Championship game.

After the next football season, which will regretably be a losing one for Tennessee, the University will have two choices: 1) Stay in a conference where several schools (most notably Auburn, Alabama and LSU) are buying top recruits right and left, and be mediocre for years or 2) take their stellar basketball program to the ACC, which geographically makes more sense. I have no doubt that the Atlantic Coast Conference would welcome them with open arms, especially if UK also joined.
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the rules say no name calling.
i better let my thoughts go....
as this thread fades away
 
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rockydoc said:
It looks like Missouri will, in the next year or so, be invited and agree to join the Big 10.
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Yeah, it's probably a no-go. Mike Alden (AD) has backed off of the B10 talk. If it did happen, the B12 would be all over TCU or Colorado State. CSU would give Colorado a natural, out-west rivalry. TCU is normally a great program, and plays B12 programs pretty much every year in OOC.

The B12 has stepped all over themselves with everything being in Texas, but the B12 CG in football rotates between Camerohead in KC and Texas (Jerry's World or San Antonio). KC would be the logical place to keep it since it's in the middle of the B12, and a solid location would give the B12 CG a higher profile, like the SEC does with Atlanta. But what do I know?

The only thing the B10 has on the B12 that will make revenue is the TV contract, and even at that, the B12 has a better network deal with ABC. The B10 has their own network. Not sure how much of a difference we're looking at.

Oh, and B10 sports blow.
 
#88
#88
I would think the B12 would be preferable in the long term. The B10's best days in respect to the other conferences seems to be behind them.
 
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rockydoc said:
It looks like Missouri will, in the next year or so, be invited and agree to join the Big 10. This leaves an opening for Arkansas to rejoin the Big 12, which they have been wanting to do for years. This leaves the SEC with only eleven members and unable to have the very profitable SEC Championship game.

After the next football season, which will regretably be a losing one for Tennessee, the University will have two choices: 1) Stay in a conference where several schools (most notably Auburn, Alabama and LSU) are buying top recruits right and left, and be mediocre for years or 2) take their stellar basketball program to the ACC, which geographically makes more sense. I have no doubt that the Atlantic Coast Conference would welcome them with open arms, especially if UK also joined.
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The first part of your post isn't all that unlikely. The far more likely answer, though, would be for the SEC to add a team with regional ties but without deep conference affiliations, like Memphis, Louisville, or Cincinnatti.
 
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#91
I had to laugh I'm sorry.

I would love to see Vandy kicked out of the league and maybe add someone like a Clemson or say a Georgia Tech as mentioned.
 
#93
#93
Sorry dude but it will never happen. I do like the idea of adding Ga Tech if Arky leaves.:dance:
 
#95
#95
I would like to see sc get booted and ga tech come back to the sec. sc fits better in the acc anyway. Not only does ga tech have a natural rivalry with ga, but ga tech has bama and auburn as past rivals as well that could be renewed. Maybe some others too I dunno. There has always been talk of arky possibly going back to the big 12, but my arky sources say now that the sec has the megabucks they would never leave.
 
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rockydoc said:
It looks like Missouri will, in the next year or so, be invited and agree to join the Big 10. This leaves an opening for Arkansas to rejoin the Big 12, which they have been wanting to do for years. This leaves the SEC with only eleven members and unable to have the very profitable SEC Championship game.

After the next football season, which will regretably be a losing one for Tennessee, the University will have two choices: 1) Stay in a conference where several schools (most notably Auburn, Alabama and LSU) are buying top recruits right and left, and be mediocre for years or 2) take their stellar basketball program to the ACC, which geographically makes more sense. I have no doubt that the Atlantic Coast Conference would welcome them with open arms, especially if UK also joined.
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Have you ever wondered what life would have been like if you had enough oxygen at birth? :lolabove:
 
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#97
btw would anyone else besides me like to see the sec champ game in nashville instead of atlanta? More centrally located and there would never be a chance vandy would make it to give an unfair homefield advantage like georgia has now
 
#98
#98
rolltide2062 said:
btw would anyone else besides me like to see the sec champ game in nashville instead of atlanta? More centrally located and there would never be a chance vandy would make it to give an unfair homefield advantage like georgia has now
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Not going to happen. SEC will not give up what ATL is paying them and not giving up the dome field.
 
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T-TownVol said:
Not going to happen. SEC will not give up what ATL is paying them and not giving up the dome field.
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Yeah I don't think it's going to happen either just wishing. I think it would be cool to add natural elements to the game, the dome is kinda of boring to me.
 
#100
#100
I'm not gonna take the time to read through all the posts but my guess would be the OP has gotten pretty well flamed...and for good reason.

While Arkansas to the Big 12 might make "some" geographical sense, monetarily its beyond ridiculous...I'll forgo the obvious with UT.

This is by far the most uneducated hypothesized OP I've ever seen on here btw...
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