Report: Unhappy ACC Schools to the Big XII

[Aughnanure]

At least according to Eeerinsider and a KU blog. Also mentions that the Big 12's committe on expansion has recommended Louisville and BYU as top targets. Hard to imagine this leauge surviving without its one of its two remaining national basketball brands.

Specifcally, Eerinsider mentions that Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Pitt and Maryland and BC have spoken with the Big 12.

Its worth noting that the Big 12 has rights the Big 14 and Big 16 names.

http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/tale-tait/2012/jan/25/realignment-heats-up-once-again-as-big-1/

http://www.eerinsider.com/2012-articles/january/big-12-to-target-acc.html

http://chronicle.com/blogs/players/big-12-conference-reopens-expansion-talk/29477

[TallTitan34]

Is Pitt pulling a TCU?

[SaveOD238]

if this happened, the rest of the ACC would raid the rest of the big east.  honestly, that wouldnt be terrible for Marquette because without those schools, the ACC becomes an even more basketball-centric conference than it already is.  The ACC remnants would invite whats left of the BEast football schools, and as a basketball-centric conference they might take G-Town, Nova, St Johns and Marquette too.  that would be one hell of a bball conference!

The Big East-Lantic Coast Conference

Basketball/Football
UNC
Duke
NC State
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Miami
UConn
Rutgers
Syracuse
Cincinnati
Notre Dame

Basketball only
Georgetown
Marquette
St Johns
Villanova

Now that I've made that list, I'm a little concerned about being a medium sized fish in a HUGE pond.  But I'll take that over A10+ anyday

[MUBurrow]

taking that BE/ACC amalgamation were true, I would have to think that UNC, NC St, Vtech, UVA, and the U would escape

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

This whole realignment talk is just plain whacked.  Enough already.  On an interesting note if the Big East can manage to somehow survive all this then perhaps they might be able to get a good deal from NBC seeing the Big XII thinks it's a greener pasture.  I question a Big XII deal with NBC with Texas and their Longhorn ESPN channel?  And please, enough of the basketball only league already!

[TallTitan34]

You say enough realignment and enough basketball only conference talk.

The only way you will stop realignment talk is with a basketball only conference.

[JoBo2756]

My two cents. MU would never be special in a Big East-Lantic Coast Conference. They would never want some school from Milwaukee.

MU is gonna screwed. Sadly, I'd be willing to put money on it.

[bamamarquettefan]

if this happened, the rest of the ACC would raid the rest of the big east.  honestly, that wouldnt be terrible for Marquette because without those schools, the ACC becomes an even more basketball-centric conference than it already is.  The ACC remnants would invite whats left of the BEast football schools, and as a basketball-centric conference they might take G-Town, Nova, St Johns and Marquette too.  that would be one hell of a bball conference!

The Big East-Lantic Coast Conference

Basketball/Football
UNC
Duke
NC State
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Miami
UConn
Rutgers
Syracuse
Cincinnati
Notre Dame

Basketball only
Georgetown
Marquette
St Johns
Villanova

Now that I've made that list, I'm a little concerned about being a medium sized fish in a HUGE pond.  But I'll take that over A10+ anyday

I like it.  I have to admit I can't help feeling somewhat happy initially after all the talk of the ACC execs being the geniouses in making the deft move for Pitt and Syracuse to secure their spot.  How's that working for you now?

If the culmination is FOUR conferences, the ACC's problem has always been that their is no geographical reason for them to be one of the four because they overlap so heaviliy (Florida, Georgia and South Carolina) with the best conference in the country - the SEC.  The Big 10 covers the midwest and at least peaks into the Northeast, the latter of which really only cares about the NFL, the Pac 10 has the west coast, and the Big 12 has in between.

The ACC's first expansion ended it's run as the top hoops conference and it kept losing all it's BCS bowl games, and this move has added two terrible football programs and stunningly a terrible basketball team this year in Pitt - and admittedly a great team in Syracuse, but with a coach who will retire before too long and a scandal to boot.

If you do go with 4 football conferences, then there is some logic to having a 5th basketball power, and I sure wouldn't mind an ACC/BEAST collaberation of some kind.  The one team I see on your list that would fight the hardest for one of the other four conferences though is Va Tech.

[T-Bone]

My two cents. MU would never be special in a Big East-Lantic Coast Conference. They would never want some school from Milwaukee.

MU is gonna screwed. Sadly, I'd be willing to put money on it.

Speaking of money...

My question is how much does Nike/Brand Jordan want Marquette/Milwaukee?  I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to think the shoe companies are throwing around a few bucks in this whole mess.  Not the driver, but in the car.

[GGGG]

I think MU is pretty far down the list of Nike's priorities.  Isn't the whole reason we are with them is because of their sponsorship of Wade?

[Desert_warrior]

Doesn't the ACC have a $25 million buyout that was to prevent something like happening? What's next? $100 million buyout clause?

[GGGG]

Doesn't the ACC have a $25 million buyout that was to prevent something like happening? What's next? $100 million buyout clause?

At some point you just gotta let people leave if they want to leave.  And if I were a betting man, I would bet this story is bogus.  BYU and Louisville I believe...FSU, Clemson and Georgia Tech?  No way.