POLL- Conferences: Where Do You Want to Go?

[Gi0logy]

Go big. ND & merge with remaining PAC-12 schools.

This could potentially work but I think you'd need to build a brand new conference similar to what the AAC did in order to make that happen. No one is joining the ACC, Big 12, or Pac 12 because of their existing/looming horrible contracts.

No school will join the ACC with that TV contract.
Big 12 lost 50% of their value with Oklahoma and Texas leaving w/ the Pac 12 probably seeing something similar. They'll have no leverage in their next negotiation which I think is coming up here over the next 24 months.

Idk the legalities of it all but if there's a way to just blow it all up and start a new conference by combining the remaining programs then maybe you can salvage something. But you'd need Clemson, Notre Dame, Oregon, Miami, FSU, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Washington, and others to not bolt to other conferences.

Even with that though I think that new conference would just become the new AAC. The path to the playoffs is very narrow.

 

[SayWhat]

SEC, It makes the most sense from a traveling and schedule stand point and I’d like to pound the turds every year.

That and recruiting.

The B1G is a flat out dumbass idea, but hatred of the SEC is clouding the minds of many with CIS group think taking over.

 

[SayWhat]

Nor to mention how overblown that is anyway. I live in Big 10 country. Outside of MAYBE flurries, most years we have no serious snow or freezing temps until after the season anyway. Average temp in Columbus, OH in November is 53. In Clemson it's 64. Wow. Earth shattering

I'll be real though, it is and isn't earth shattering. As someone who grew up in S. FL, my family moved up north and I always had in my mind that it was winter. As an adult and looking at some pictures, I realized it was during the fall due to the leaves turning. In said pictures, I was bundled up like the little brother in a Christmas Story movie. I thought I was going to freeze to death.

 

[Mr. Dynasty1]

I don't know about moving conferences. I don't think it would make a major difference whether its B1G or SEC. I just want no parts of PAC 12. Games starting at 10pm ET is trash

 

[CANE]

MIAMI in the big 10.

 

[Tony4Canes]

MIAMI in the big 10.View attachment 194282

Along with UNC, Duke & ND?

 

[CANE]

MIAMI needs to be in the sec east. Idgaf about anyone else.

 

[hotshot]

The SEC powers hate us. If they had any control over our future they’d use it to keep us in check, as a whipping boy… you name it. I don’t trust those MF’s for one second and wouldn’t remotely trust them with the keys to our house.

I find it interesting that all the sports talk shows I've heard in the last 24 hours, when conversations are about who the SEC should "take" from the ACC, mention Clemson and FSU. We're apparently ghosts.

 

[ZuCrew]

B1G. We are an east coast school, not a "Southern" one. There are plenty of east coast schools in the B1G as is, so we will have a group to roll with. Texas is going to learn mighty quickly that they aren't southern, not in the way the rest of the SEC is, and that's going to be a problem. The money is going to be similar either way.

Hmm.. I’ve heard this comment multiple times and it always makes me think. The most used response is “Miami is too cosmopolitan to be southern”. I tend to disagree. Geographically? Of course it’s literally South, Florida. Culturally? I also say yes by comparative analysis. Being a “transplant” Florida Boy, I’ve noticed similarities between Atlanta and Miami from a culture prospective. Outside of FB, Fla boys and Ga get along quite well due to this. I’ve heard the term “southern cousins”.

I’ve been around dudes from Memphis and that “southerness” is a common denominator. Texas while I haven’t been around tons of Tx dudes, again Miami dudes tend to fit in or vice versa. Same with dudes from Louisiana. Speaking of Texas, Austin is a good example of a southern city that’s more culturally diverse then others in its state but still retains its southern badge. Same with Miami.

Once you leave SFL and head north it gets less Metro and more country. Like backwoods country. ****, you might as well be in Alabama or Mississippi at that point.

So yes, while diverse, cosmopolitan, and Metro, it is most definitely and definitively the souf.

 

[CaneinBroward]

This could potentially work but I think you'd need to build a brand new conference similar to what the AAC did in order to make that happen. No one is joining the ACC, Big 12, or Pac 12 because of their existing/looming horrible contracts.

No school will join the ACC with that TV contract.
Big 12 lost 50% of their value with Oklahoma and Texas leaving w/ the Pac 12 probably seeing something similar. They'll have no leverage in their next negotiation which I think is coming up here over the next 24 months.

Idk the legalities of it all but if there's a way to just blow it all up and start a new conference by combining the remaining programs then maybe you can salvage something. But you'd need Clemson, Notre Dame, Oregon, Miami, FSU, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Washington, and others to not bolt to other conferences.

Even with that though I think that new conference would just become the new AAC. The path to the playoffs is very narrow.

The TV contract gets renegotiated with new membership.

 

[section9]

Merging the ACC and the PAC12 and bringing in ND seems to me like the best power move.

 

[Badbart43]

The ACC and PAC 12 need to split up the Big 12 between them

 

[Tinman64]

I'm scared of playing at Cornell in late November.

It is cold up here lol

 

[MiamiCanesFan77]

Merging the ACC and the PAC12 and bringing in ND seems to me like the best power move.

The Pac 12 without USC and UCLA (and certainly without Washington and Oregon if they leave) adds no value.

The demarcation line has been set… the Big 10 and SEC will now be the two super power conferences.

 

[CreativeCane]

Big 10 makes so much sense, IMO. Especially if you take ND with you. A lot of Miami alumni in the DC, NYC, and Chicago areas. Plus consider the media markets from coast to coast with USC and UCLA going in. It would truly be a national conference with national brands like Miami, USC, ND, and Ohio State. We don't fit SEC culture at all, only geography.

The distance and cold weather would suck big time, but hopefully Mario is going to curb that culture, especially since he's recruiting nationally.

 

[MiamiCanesFan77]

The supposed geographic advantage to joining the SEC is overstated.

UF is the only SEC school within a reasonable driving distance to South Florida and most of the other SEC schools are difficult to fly to as they are in small college towns.

 

[gogeta4]

The Pac 12 without USC and UCLA (and certainly without Washington and Oregon if they leave) adds no value.

The demarcation line has been set… the Big 10 and SEC will now be the two super power conferences.

Both conferences owned by Fox and ESPN.

It's those 2 media markets fighting.

We dont fit in any of the conferences.

I dont really care for conferences or think realignment really affects a team like us...we have brand nationally we could make a mnc from the sunbelt because we push ratings. So I dont know why yearly most of the posters on here are all "I'll s-ck your d-ck for a dollar mane" crackhead like to ride on sec and big10 coattails.


The Acc could be dead all it wants in football but our brand won't be.

But if I'm the acc I draw for Notre Dame.

Then West Virginia... west coast I would grab for Stanford..maybe Cal. Those moves alone would be all needed football wise.

 

[westcoastcanes]

I'm scared of playing at Cornell in late November.

Its a mans game.

They should add Miami and Stanford to beef up their athletics and maintain exceptional academics.

 

[Category69]

It's crazy, should have been the BIG 12 leftovers merging with the PAC instead of adding BYU, UCF, UC, and UH. But now it looks like the PAC leftovers will now have to merge with the BIG 12 to form a conference because more will likely follow to exit to the B1G.

Geographically the SEC makes more sense for us. Culturally, academically, etc. probably makes more sense for B1G.

The ACC has never supported us, so they can eat a d!ck, the bias is there and that's not a tin foil hat observation.

 

[ThomasM]

I was thinking the Smythe division in the NHL was a good cultural fit. You scared of Winnipeg in the fall?

I'm scared of Winnipeg at all times. I hate that place.