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[IUPbigINDIANS]

Gets even better. There's a video on the internet of a player "surfing" atop a moving bus while chugging a beer. I thought I was watching Teen Wolf LOL

Was it a team bus or a local transit?

[Fightingscot82]

They are 1-3 but, Lord, they lost to nationally ranked Arkansas and previously ranked Louisiana.

Timing seems odd.

Gets even better. There's a video on the internet of a player "surfing" atop a moving bus while chugging a beer. I thought I was watching Teen Wolf LOL

[IUP24]

The only league at risk of not surviving at this point is the Big 12. Their two flagship power members are bolting. Every other league has a landmark program to hold the fort:

ACC: Clemson
Big Ten: Ohio State
SEC: Alabama
Pac 12: USC

Nobody left in the Big 12 holds the same water that any of those other four do in their respective leagues. Oklahoma State would leave the Big 12 to affiliate itself with USC. But other schools aren't leaving their situations to affiliate themselves with OK State or Kansas. The academic argument is a lie. If somebody benefited the Big Ten, they would be invited, AAU member or not. It's about what university opens the door for more money.

If you follow college football, you should know that everything is about money. That's it. The proposed expansion of the playoff is only about money. And teams leaving one conference to go to the next is only about, you guessed it, money.

I'd love to see Pitt, West Virginia, and Penn State play each other every year. But you have to ask, what does WVU offer the ACC that they don't currently have? On the contrary, what does Pitt offer the Big Ten that they don't already have? Why would the Big Ten add Pitt when there are more Penn State grads in Allegheny County than there are Pitt grads? Pitt brings nothing to the Big Ten different than Penn State does in terms of households/media market. Rutgers isn't a Big Ten type of school either, but they provided the league a perennial doormat who opened up the Big Ten network to millions of television sets in the NJ/NYC area. All about the money. Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, etc., were all for adding Rutgers. An easy W and it increases the check at the end of the year.

[IUPNation]

This only ends with four major conferences. The Big 12 is simply delaying the inevitable. Conference realignment at this point is about nothing more than money and if a school will generate more revenue for a conference by being added. You can make the case that a lot of the moves that "make sense" actually don't financially. The geography of conference members is meaningless at this point. The ACC is going to try to grow the ACC network. That would be their sole goal in adding any new member.

The ACC would rather add Texas Tech and TCU than WVU or, say, UCF. I believe that with all sincerity. ACC Network is already on the largest cable provider in Florida. There's zero benefit in adding UCF because it would not open you up to any new revenue streams - and it would upset charter member Florida State (as they've already discussed with the conference). The same discussion exists with WVU. Comcast is the largest the cable provider in both PA and WV. Eventually, Comcast will pick up the channel (took them just over two years to get the BIG Network). When they do, you're not getting a ton more households. Morgantown is an extension of the Pittsburgh media market. Many with eyes on WVU or Pitt already, likely already had eyes on the other.

To add a new member, you have to justify the cost of doing so. Does WVU generate the ACC an additional 30 million dollars for the ACC? Does UCF? If either goes to a major bowl, they're just knocking out another ACC member - so they aren't generating more money from performance. Therefore, you consider the tv money. If the state the school is in doesn't offer you an additional stream of massive revenue dollars, it's not a move conferences will likely make. You can make the argument that adding two schools in Texas open up the opportunity to generate significantly more money than a school in a state where there's already a member, and a school just an hour or so away and in the same general media market.

All that said, I would love to see WVU with Pitt in the ACC. Also would love to see Pitt in the Big Ten also.

[IUP24]

Who knows. Last expansion the Big should have taken Pitt and Syracuse in my opinion. Rutgers and MD just don't fit.

This only ends with four major conferences. The Big 12 is simply delaying the inevitable. Conference realignment at this point is about nothing more than money and if a school will generate more revenue for a conference by being added. You can make the case that a lot of the moves that "make sense" actually don't financially. The geography of conference members is meaningless at this point. The ACC is going to try to grow the ACC network. That would be their sole goal in adding any new member.

The ACC would rather add Texas Tech and TCU than WVU or, say, UCF. I believe that with all sincerity. ACC Network is already on the largest cable provider in Florida. There's zero benefit in adding UCF because it would not open you up to any new revenue streams - and it would upset charter member Florida State (as they've already discussed with the conference). The same discussion exists with WVU. Comcast is the largest the cable provider in both PA and WV. Eventually, Comcast will pick up the channel (took them just over two years to get the BIG Network). When they do, you're not getting a ton more households. Morgantown is an extension of the Pittsburgh media market. Many with eyes on WVU or Pitt already, likely already had eyes on the other.

To add a new member, you have to justify the cost of doing so. Does WVU generate the ACC an additional 30 million dollars for the ACC? Does UCF? If either goes to a major bowl, they're just knocking out another ACC member - so they aren't generating more money from performance. Therefore, you consider the tv money. If the state the school is in doesn't offer you an additional stream of massive revenue dollars, it's not a move conferences will likely make. You can make the argument that adding two schools in Texas open up the opportunity to generate significantly more money than a school in a state where there's already a member, and a school just an hour or so away and in the same general media market.

All that said, I would love to see WVU with Pitt in the ACC. Also would love to see Pitt in the Big Ten also.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Who knows. Last expansion the Big should have taken Pitt and Syracuse in my opinion. Rutgers and MD just don't fit.

[IUPNation]

[Fightingscot82]

They are 1-3 but, Lord, they lost to nationally ranked Arkansas and previously ranked Louisiana.

Timing seems odd.

Some of the more recent FCS to FBS risers were perennial powers in FCS: Appalachian State, Georgia Southern, Liberty, and Texas State. Its hard to swallow going from big fish in small pond to a bigger pond and expecting the same results. These are big fan bases who were used to the FBS feel with a strong on-field FCS product. I imagine some of that Savannah money was willing to pony up.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Georgia Southern fires their coach mid-season. That's two FBS coaches fired already. I'm not sure how I feel about a mid-season termination that's not for cause.

They are 1-3 but, Lord, they lost to nationally ranked Arkansas and previously ranked Louisiana.

Timing seems odd.

[Fightingscot82]

Georgia Southern fires their coach mid-season. That's two FBS coaches fired already. I'm not sure how I feel about a mid-season termination that's not for cause.

[IUPNation]

Tough loss for West Virginiastan. I thought they had outplayed Oklahomastan but they left too many points on the field. First and goal on the goal and getting penalized and having to settle for the FG was just one instance where they came away with little for their effort.

[IUPNation]

Numbnuts Narduzzi runs it up to the tune of 77-7 against New Hampshire today.

The H2P faithful can proclaim they are back in the playoff race.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Numbnuts Narduzzi runs it up to the tune of 77-7 against New Hampshire today.

The H2P faithful can proclaim they are back in the playoff race.

[IUPNation]

[iupgroundhog]