BlackBolt3
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I mean the Council probably already made their decisions, so...
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Not to be rude or anything, because I know you guys have lifes, but when is the announcement date? If I recall correct the nominees were announced a week in advance.
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That blue is a little too bright... But, pretty sure it will look pretty good in real life.
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I'll keep it simple:
Panthers/Hornets/Hurricanes(starting to give hockey a shot this year)-Local pro teams.
Wake Forest/Winston-Salem Dash- As local as it can get.
Clemson- Where my brother goes to college, and most likely myself.
Blue Jays- My name is Jai, pronounced like Jay, and 4 year old me thought that was cool.
I also support just about any US national team, too.
There also a few teams I just like, but not not as strong.(Chargers, Braves, Bulls, etc.)
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Maybe UConn. I still think that if 16 is the magic number, they will at least get a look.What would happen if Maryland hadn't decided to join the Big TEN (B1G) and chose to stay in the ACC? Would Rutgers, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincinnati and UConn followed the footsteps like Pitt and Syracuse did to join?
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Maryland is going to be a doormat in the Big Ten.(It's going to be a cold day in hell before I acknowledge them as B1G) They are also $50 million down the hole, thanks to John Swafford's GettinThatCash exit fee.
Also, UCF for Clemson? And Clemson to the SEC? Get out of here with that.
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UConn, stop flandering in football, then we can talk. If you thought ACC football was bad, this current brand of Husky football would make even the worst team look good.
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Seems like a ACC Network. Now that it seems like the ACC is in it for the long haul, can we stay at 5 conferences?
(Also, I just noticed that the ACC is at 15 teams right now. Will UConn or Cincy join?)
No there are at 14 for football, 15 for the other sports. Notre Dame is in the conference for all but football (and hockey of course)
Let me remind you of my stance. I don't like conferences to have odd numbers.
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http://espn.go.com/c...-okd-presidents
Seems like a ACC Network. Now that it seems like the ACC is in it for the long haul, can we stay at 5 conferences?
(Also, I just noticed that the ACC is at 15 teams right now. Will UConn or Cincy join?)
No, Maryland will leave.
ACC = 14 total teams when all the dust settles.
- Maryland departure brings them down to 11.
- Pitt & Syracuse brings them up to 13.
- Louisville brings them to 14.
No, Notre Dame(in all but football) makes it 15. It may be my OCD kicking in, but all conferences should have even numbers. Yes, when the Big Ten(don't make me put B1G) had 11 it bugged the crap out of me.
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Seems like a ACC Network. Now that it seems like the ACC is in it for the long haul, can we stay at 5 conferences?
(Also, I just noticed that the ACC is at 15 teams right now. Will UConn or Cincy join?)
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Back to more news...
Norte Dame will join the ACC July 1.
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9031167/catholic-7-leaving-big-east-june-30
Catholic 7 leaving in June.(I'm surprised nobody has put this here yet.)
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This league alignment is the prime factorization of the number of teams in the league.
2 x 2 x 5
2 conferences
2 divisions per conference
5 teams per division
Can't do much better than that.
But!
The fact that the Gulf Coast is not really located in "the West" is a concern for you in naming the conferences.
You have four geographically-based divisions and can't find a way to combine one division with one of the others (leaving the other two to form the other conference).
Why didn't you arbitrarily place teams together (based on some other factor than geography)?
I don't know what you want, but if you are settled on the division names Gulf Coast, Pacific Coast, Great Lakes, and Atlantic Coast you have already configured the geographical boundaries of each division. Which two division boundaries touch? If they do, why aren't those teams together in one division?
- If "Arkansas" is based in Little Rock, it is more west than "St. Louis," and depending on where "Texas" and "Iowa" are based, they would also be more west than St. Louis.
- The Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast regions do not overlap.
My advice:
- Combine the Pacific Coast teams and the Gulf Coast teams into one division. Keep the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes separate. 10 & 5/5. Conversely, if you decided to put "St. Louis" in the Pacific Coast Division because it is too far north to be in the "Gulf Coast" Division (and "Iowa" is already in the Pacific Coast), the "Pacific Coast Division" is actually a "Northern" or "Northwestern" Division. You could combine the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes and keep separate the Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast Division.
- Or if you don't like that, combine the Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast (because "Gulf Coast" is more east than "Pacific Coast," theoretically) and combine the Great Lakes with the Pacific Coast. The problem here is that you have to decide which team from the midwestern United States ("Arkansas," "Texas," "Iowa," or "St. Louis") should be the one team incorporated into the Pacific Coast Division.
_Not much more to say here. I don't know what you should name the conferences, but if the divisions are based solely on geography, maybe the divisions should incorporate geography into the names.
"West and East" would be more accurate than "North and South," though. You chose to put more-northern teams in the Pacific Coast Division.
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The placements of the Gulf Coast teams and the Pacific Coast teams is still up in the air, I think. However, you determined either that Iowa is too close to St. Louis for them to be separated or that being placed in the Gulf Coast Division relies on being more South than West (The Gulf Coast is a region outside of East/West). Maybe because this type of criterion does not exist in the "Eastern Conference" divisions, the "Western Conference" should not be divided?
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What did you decide? You've probably made your decision by now.
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, I just saw the map.haha.
These are your 4 inherent divisions:
"St. Louis-Buffalo" Division
Des Moines (closest to St. Louis)
St. Louis (closest to Chicago)
Chicago (closest to Dayton)
Dayton (closest to Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh (closest to Buffalo)
Buffalo (closest to Rochester)
Rochester (closest to Buffalo)
Arkansas (closest to St. Louis)
Texas (closest to Arkansas)
"Long Island Y.-Long Island D." Division
Long Island D. (closest to Long Island Y.)
Long Island Y. (closest to Long Island D.)
New Jersey (closest to New York)
New York (closest to Long Island Y/D)
Springfield (closest to Long Island Y/D)
"Portland" Division
Seattle (closest to Portland)
Portland (closest to Seattle)
Sacramento (closest to Portland)
"Atlanta" Division
Birmingham (closest to Atlanta)
Atlanta (closest to Birmingham)
Florida (closest to Atlanta)
These are the groups of rivalry-games that cannot be separated in any way at any time in the construction of your league.
These rivalries were only determined using geography.
St. Louis-Buffalo (9 teams)
Long Island Y.-Long Island D.(5 teams)
Portland (3 teams)
Atlanta (3 teams)
Good luck with the rest of this.
Here's my idea (you want non-geographically-based division names, but you want to keep the "coast/body of water" themes):
Great Lakes League
Des Moines
St. Louis
Chicago
Dayton
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Rochester
Arkansas
Texas
*expansion available from North Dakota to Western New York/Central Pennsylvania, Denver to Washington DC, and New Mexico
*expansion available from North Dakota to Western New York/Central Pennsylvania, Denver to Washington DC, and New Mexico
*expansion available from North Dakota to Western New York/Central Pennsylvania, Denver to Washington DC, and New Mexico
Coastal League
Long Island D.
Long Island Y.
New Jersey
New York
Springfield
Seattle
Portland
Sacramento
Birmingham
Atlanta
Florida
*potential league expansion area in the NW, New-England, Philadelphia, Nashville, and Florida
The only problem here is that the leagues are of 9 and 11 teams each, which would require inter-league play, which would make a "league division" completely arbitrary. Two leagues of 11 teams is also arbitrary, so two leagues of 12 or two leagues of 10 is the only possible fix.
Add four more expansion teams OR move any Coastal League team to a any place where they would be closer to a Great Lakes League team than any Coastal League team (like moving New York or New Jersey to Washington DC, Sacramento, Portland, or Seattle to Denver, Jacksonville to West Virginia, etc.)
The goal is to get a group of 5 in a 20-team league, have 2 leagues, 4 divisions, and have all the teams' rivals be listed in the divisions with the teams. or not.
There are many factors in realigning teams. The Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains are probably the biggest influences of climate on the United States and all of the teams in your league here would be situated on the opposite sides of each mountain range as the other teams in the other league in my idea above. Strange how that worked out.
Final idea:
Coastal League
Long Island D.
Long Island Y.
New Jersey
New York
Springfield
Seattle
Portland
Sacramento
Atlanta
Florida
Plains League (formerly "Great Lakes Division" and "St. Louis-Buffalo Division")
Des Moines
St. Louis
Chicago
Dayton
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Rochester
Arkansas
Texas
New Orleans (formerly Birmingham, New Orleans is closer to Little Rock than Atlanta and Jacksonville are to New Orleans)
I...I can't even...
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Here's a thought. What if Maryland loses its case, but doesn't come with the money? Under Armour might pay the bulk, but I can't see them paying more than 15 million.
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Tulane to the Big East. ECU for football only.
ECU isn't a bad addition at all; Tulane on the other hand is WTF
Louisville Needs to leave the Big East for the Big XII or the ACC.
I've heard some rumblings that an announcement about ACC expansion during the Football Championship this weekend. Stay tuned.
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Possibly. People need to keep an open mind about this. I do think Texas and Oklahoma would rather play in the Eastern time zone than the Pacific time zone.I would think they would push for FSU/Clemson rather than play in Seattle and LA.
Yes, and they may go to the SEC. I understand your concerns about football competition wise, but what can the ACC do about it? Each conference has its share of low competition. Because FSU and Iowa State would definitely fill the stands at Doak.
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This is from Brian Miller of the Tallahassee Democrat.
Just heard from someone tied to Big East, Louisville to the ACC w/ Cincy, UConn to likely follow.
Which may confirm the other rumor I heard today. The Big East will dissolve next week.
Hope it happens.
Well, he erased his tweet so who knows.
Wouldn't that mean that it was right? And if true, thank the lord Wake will have a spot at the big boy table.
Maybe. I don't think this stops more deflections, though. If anything, they are preparing for more.
True, but wasn't 16 the "safe" number for a super conference?
More will come once the BE dissolves. I still think FSU voted no for a reason. Just like Maryland did. We also know the Big10 and SEC aren't done. Did the ACC plan to go to 16? I'm sure they did. I don't think they expected to do so this quickly. Feels like an emergency.
I could see the ACC and Big Ten picking apart the Big East and the Pac 12 and SEC getting the Big 12
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This is from Brian Miller of the Tallahassee Democrat.
Just heard from someone tied to Big East, Louisville to the ACC w/ Cincy, UConn to likely follow.
Which may confirm the other rumor I heard today. The Big East will dissolve next week.
Hope it happens.
Well, he erased his tweet so who knows.
Wouldn't that mean that it was right? And if true, thank the lord Wake will have a spot at the big boy table.
Maybe. I don't think this stops more deflections, though. If anything, they are preparing for more.
True, but wasn't 16 the "safe" number for a super conference?
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This is from Brian Miller of the Tallahassee Democrat.
Just heard from someone tied to Big East, Louisville to the ACC w/ Cincy, UConn to likely follow.
Which may confirm the other rumor I heard today. The Big East will dissolve next week.
Hope it happens.
Well, he erased his tweet so who knows.
Wouldn't that mean that it was right? And if true, thank the lord Wake will have a spot at the big boy table.
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As long as the ACC exists, Notre Dame will be part of their bowl line up.
"Starting in 2014, here's the options," Notre Dame spokesman John Heisler said. "We can be in the playoff. We can be in Orange Bowl in a year that we're the next best team amongst us, the Big Ten and the SEC. We can be in another at-large game, an 'access bowl' as they're going to call them, I guess. And then we still have the full ACC package."
"This just means for a couple times, you're going to be pointed toward the Orange Bowl, if you're good enough to fit the criteria," Heisler said. "And if you're not good enough to make the cut there, that's why the ACC arrangement was a great benefit for us, because it gives you additional optons no matter what your record is."
The following is a list of ACC Bowl tie-ins:
Peach Bowl
Russell Athletic/Champs Sports Bowl
Sun Bowl
Belk/That Game In Charlotte Bowl
Music City Bowl
Independence/WeedEater Bowl
Military Bowl
Quite the lineup of fail/safes there folks.
Bolded are the bowls I would go to in a heartbeat, including the Orange Bowl. You know the ACC saying, "5 out of 8 aint bad!"
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Was reading online on all sorts of message boards and finding out that a majority of ACC fans want Louisville instead of UConn (Just to point out there). Still, it will be interesting what will happen to the conference.
As an ACC fan, it would make me feel better if you guys came.
(Got any conference friends?)
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When I think about it, Maryland is going to get booed at all ACC away games this year and next.
They will get some cheers in Tallahassee.
Some. Aren't there people down there who don't want FSU to jump ship?
The vast majority wants out the ACC.
I don't know why. Is it a athletic issue, or a financial issue?
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When I think about it, Maryland is going to get booed at all ACC away games this year and next.
They will get some cheers in Tallahassee.
Some. Aren't there people down there who don't want FSU to jump ship?
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When I think about it, Maryland is going to get booed at all ACC away games this year and next.
, I just saw the map.
Rare team matchups
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Yeah, that's a beautiful matchup. Whenever the Panthers played in Tampa Bay, (before the whole one helmet rule) they always broke out the Creamsicles. I always appreciated that.