Country Roads Confidential

Why in the world would we hope that?

Especially when FSU, Clemson and GT are potentially out there. UL should be a fallback option at best.

What does geography have to do with realignment? It's all about the dough...Location is hardly a consideration in the whole process.

The Big 12 already performed a feasibility study on UL last year and my understanding is that they will cost us money. Why should we sacrifice our slice of the pie for someone who is going to impede our annual revenue? Cincy shouldn't even be on this conversation.

The Big 12 needs to get to 12 eventually, but adding two teams (UL & Cincy) that don't increase our annual revenue (other than the defacto portion from the championship game), makes zero sense. It needs to be the right two.

I will say that if UL is paired with FSU and our payout stays the same, I'm all for it.

Expansion has been in favor of TV markets for now. The SEC added Texas A&M for the Dallas TV market and Missouri for the St Louis market. As TV markets go away then geography will play more into it.
I would rather the big 12 add loserville and fsu.

I would not be a fan of GT in the big 12, they are a small school and have already been overtaken in size by Georgia State in the Atlanta area and will eventually supplant them as the premier school. You need teams with growth potential. The only thing GT would bring is an academic reputation, (Another Duke).

GT would be a huge get for the B12, smack dab in the middle of the south and a huge TV market.

If I remember correctly UL was begging and trying everything in the world to get in the big 12 but was shot down because they wanted WVU!!! You can have you acc if you want it. Not a football conference just like the big east

WVU fans want nothing to do with the ACC. A lot less money, fewer marquee games for prime time, No chance for national championship due to a terrible strength of schedule...

ACC is the Big East 2.0. That is why FSU will be gone soon.

I find it hilarious that you care enough to stop by our forum to tell us to "suck it". The butthurt is obviously still strong with Looneyville.

A TV market that will fade as Georgia State captures it. GT is running on reputation at this time. Most of the alumni in the area will be from Georgia State. I would rather see them in the Big 12. The same could also be said of Miami and FIU. These schools have unlimited potential and the right conference would guarantee their success. As we all know it is all about TV sets turned on. GT and Miami no longer fit in that category.

Georgia State has absolutely nothing to do with Atlanta area TV. I've lived in ATL for 11 years and while they are an up and coming program, it will be decades, if ever, before they are a relevant national athletic program suitable for a major conference.

GT also sux - not much alumni support, a lot of international engineering students who dont care about sports.

They have a new hoops arena though and certainly could be relevant one day again in football but there are just way too many SEC teams chasing top talent in this state.

The issue as I see with the Big 12 minus 2, is we spend to much time looking at today and not what will be happening in years to come. It is very possible that the conference winner will have their own networks and not keep their own tier 3 rights. If that is correct the ACC could build their own network and be ahead of our in years to come. At issue with the Big 12 network is the Lonely Horn Network. We at Texas do not want to pass on the 15M per year and no other school would either. So where do we go?

At the present is does not mean GT will in the future. Ga ST has over 30,000 students and is projected to have 50,000 in a short time.( Not exactly a Fairmont St type school) Their games are played in the Ga Dome.