(05-28-2014 05:24 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 04:11 PM)XLance Wrote:  JR, the simple solution is to trade Florida for Florida State. We would be happy to give up the 'noles for the Gators and both of our conferences would be better off.
Then we could go about our business in securing Texas and Notre Dame and call it a day.

And BTW you should be thankful to ESPN for keeping FSU and Clemson in check, because if the ACC had blown up or does blow up UVa and Carolina (despite what you have read of any message board) would be headed to the B1G. Then three conferences of 20-22 each would be likely. If that happens, nobody will be able to keep up with the B1G money wise. Slive is no dummy. He know that he needs the ACC to be a viable league to keep the monster in check.

Nah! The SEC has 6 of the top revenue generators in the Nation and almost half of the top twenty. When you talk T.V. contracts you are talking about 1/4 to 1/7 of the total revenue package. So even if they made 15 million more than we do on average the totals would get competitive but the balance would be about the same on earnings. (Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan would still do quite well and maintain or increase their standing, but the rest would only close the gap.)

However, if the Big 10 took North Carolina and Virginia they will have done nada toward closing the gap on recruiting, talent, and on field performance. They would have succeeded in simply finding two more patsies for Ohio State and Michigan to play and on good years Wisconsin and Michigan State. Lots of TV sets and lots of potential viewers are not going to be sated by Northwestern vs North Carolina and Purdue vs Virginia. And interestingly enough at some point the Buckeye fans would be wanting them to move to the SEC where football is actually played. No it may be irksome that the Big 10 plants a flag in Virginia but it won't make their sagging product any better. As demographics change it is they that need to move South. And any Southern schools that associate with them will suffer decline in statewide prestige because sports are the face of the University. Besides North Carolina is having a hard time maintaining relevance in hoops now. Move to the Big 10 along with Cuse and Pitt and all you will become is a mid tier basketball program that stinks at football. Enjoy your TV revenue from two days of lacrosse coverage.

Slive wants U.N.C. and Virginia, but for the markets and the academics. We don't need football prowess thank goodness. Both are worth something to the SEC for what they are, not what they are not. But even if Delany got them as long as we land Virginia Tech, N.C. State, F.S.U. and Clemson nothing changes except that we get stronger and the Big 10 doesn't.

You guys would lose so much of your base if you moved North that watching the decline of U.N.C. would become a pass time of every Wolfpack and Pirate fan in the your state. It would be Aggie like joy painted on the face of those fan bases. And Chapel Hill would be a pain in the butt trip for Midwestern schools to play football and not much else.

So we'll keep the Gators and take the Noles when the time comes and you can either be a part of something better in the South or take your pride and move North to diminish. Have a good one.