More Smoke Regarding North Carolina and Georgia Tech

[CharlestonHawkeye]

Boise State Broncos discussing staying in Mountain West, snubbing Big East - ESPN

"Sources at Cincinnati and UConn are under the impression, even if it's not known to be true yet, that the Big Ten will raid the ACC for two more schools -- North Carolina and Georgia Tech."

 

[HawkinGoferLand]

GT is in if we go beyond 14 in B1G

 

[NCHawker]

Very juicy. I just can't believe UNC would leave Duke, NCSU and Wake.

 

[H8IAST8]

UNC and Georgia deliver both North Carolina and Georgia. Georgia Tech does not deliver Georgia.

 

[MoseSchrute]

^But it would deliver the Atlanta tv market, which is what they would be after.

 

[franstheman]

The B10 is a midwest conference. Enough of this $hit.

 

[BSpringsteen]

SNOWCOCK!

 

[pistons]

The next school in is Virginia

North Carolina is second.

Georgia Tech is a joke

This is just Espn making things up

 

[FalseMirage]

The B10 is a midwest conference. Enough of this $hit.

The Big Ten quit being a Midwest only conference when Penn St joined.

 

[hawkfarmer]

GT would be pointless. It will not get the atlanta market. That is a UGA town. GT is irrelevant.

 

[CAARHawk]

I like UVA and UNC too. But just hearing more GT or Kansas talk than UVA.

OSU
PSU
UNC
Maryland
UVA
Indy
PU
Rutgers

Just makes such a sensible Eastern Division.

With
Nebby
UM
MSU
UW
Illinois
Iowa
Minny
NW

In the west.

 

[OO44]

UNC and Georgia deliver both North Carolina and Georgia. Georgia Tech does not deliver Georgia.

Georgia Tech delivers Atlanta, the 8th biggest TV market in the nation.

 

[doclee]

I like UVA and UNC too. But just hearing more GT or Kansas talk than UVA.

OSU
PSU
UNC
Maryland
UVA
Indy
PU
Rutgers

Just makes such a sensible Eastern Division.

With
Nebby
UM
MSU
UW
Illinois
Iowa
Minny
NW

In the west.

If we see further expansion, this would make a lot of sense. For most of the football season, we could ignore half the so called BT Conference, which is just fine with me.

 

[DwayneTwill]

The B10 is a midwest conference. Enough of this $hit.

This.

 

[hawkeyescott]

GT would be pointless. It will not get the atlanta market. That is a UGA town. GT is irrelevant.

And NYC isn't a Rutgers town either. The Big Ten doesn't care they want the tv sets. Someday people will understand how expansion really works.

 

[CAARHawk]

Actually, they want cable subscribers.

 

[MoseSchrute]

I don't want Southern schools in our old Midwestern conference either, but we fans ain't runnin' the show.

 

[BonanzaHawk]

Has anybody thought of the possibility of Kansas and UNC? I've heard, obviously, lots of smoke about UNC, but only tiny grumblings about Kansas. It takes us a little bit south, as well as further out west.

The thought of UNC and Kansas joining us in basketball is really cool, if you ask me.

 

[Hawkfromnorwalk]

What adding GT does is it makes it so that tOSU, Michigan, PSU and the rest of the B1G are playing games down there in Georgia, smack dab in the middle of $EC country.

 

[latrans]

I don't want Southern schools in our old Midwestern conference either, but we fans ain't runnin' the show.

This is true and also a little weird. The big ten conference went from being an athletic conference to a corporate broadcast entity. I could care less about corporate broadcast entities.