RyanMcD29

BUT THE COYOTES WERE ONLY 99 CENTS (bargain!)

So I decided to venture onto HFBoards and OH GOD sorry for Cleve'jacking the thread, but yeah that's another one that would totally make the "HFBoards Comment Aggregator Thread that Never Was"

oh sweet jaysus hey there NHL Public Access I was feeling nostalgic and looked for NHL on OLN regular season YouTube clips. Oh mercy, THE SCOREBUG ON THE BOTTOM AND MUSIC DURING THE REPLAYS THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE CLIPS OF THESE GAMES ON YOUTUBE TO BASK IN THE HORRIBLENESS Also, the NHL on ESPN2 FiRe oN IcE theme song was the greatest thing to be heard by my 4 year old ears

Cool thread. I love going into the details of sports graphics packages By the way, does anybody remember that MLB on Fox scorebug in 96 (their first season) where it was vertical and took up a good part of the left side of the screen or something?

Because this mess needs to get messier, this appears on my Twitter feed!

EVERYBODY NUKE THAT B1G PARTIAL MEMBERSHIP TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Whatever we do, we gotta put the AHL affiliate in Upstate NY. I don't think Ithaca or Oswego will work due to college hockey, so we'll go with the Auburn Awesomes. If we can't find a nice plot of land to build an arena we can relocate them to Cortland instead.

Not the Coyotes, but still ARIZONA HOCKEY FEVER!!1! http://deadspin.com/when-minor-league-hockey-promotions-go-wrong-480995305

Oh god I can't imagine the riots if you tried to change Indiana time again. People here still complain about changing to daylight savings time and even worse, are confused by it. I understand arguing the merits if anyone should have it but how can you be confused about changing you clocks an hour... I prefer eastern time but I like playing full rounds of golf after work and if we went to central, ill get like 13 in, tops... (Firstworldproblem) Oh. Quebec or bust! BUT BUT THE INDY 500 START TIME

So the ripple effects of the new Big East are being felt, as George Mason will be joining the A-10 and putting the Colonial in some more trouble

Why add a third Philly team when you already have St. Joe's and LaSalle? Plus the CAA/NBC Sports Network contract featured both George Mason and Drexel. George Mason was on NBCSN seven times and Drexel was on eight times. The TV money for the A-10 is about $300K more, but the A-10 does not have a 14 game football contract with NBC/Comcast and the CAA does for their games on local CSNs and CSS. Well I figured they would want to replace that Philly market with a Philly market and it seems a logical fit, but I had no idea the tv contracts are tied into haveing them and GM in the caa. Is the SoCon gonna go after a new school to replace College of Charleston? Further more I'm shocked the MAAC did not try to kill America East conference when they expanded. They get Albany, stony brook, Binghamton and maybe Vermont/Hartford then the rest of that conference would of gone to the NEC and left UMBC to the patriot. Better schools then Monmouth & Quinnipac right? I thought a lot of the America East schools were flirting with the idea of joining the CAA IIRC

"Clemson: The Big Ten is more into meth than cocaine" YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS I MEAN DON'T BE HATIN' ON THAT BESIDES I'M KINDA LATCHED ONTO FLORIDA STATE WHENEVER THE BIG XII OFFICES FINALLY DON'T RETURN TO SENDER SOME KILOS I'M TRYIN' TO BRIBE THEM WITH BUT THAT'S ALRIGHT FOR NOW I GUESS I MEAN AT LEAST WE'RE NOT PLAYING A THURSDAY NIGHT GAME OH GOD WE ARE MAN THAT'S MY NIGHT FOR PICKING UP MY STASH THE FREAKIN' ACC'S RUINING EVERYTHING YOU GUYS

Also according to Realignment McCarthy on Twitter, the Catholic 7 are breaking way apparently next fall, which also means Notre Dame is looking to move into the ACC next season

So if let's say all 3 do in fact have offers and accept them and whatnot.. do we throw out the 16 team stuff out the window and steamroll ahead to the super-dee-dooper 18 to 20 endgame?

5 goals? That's totally not lasting more than 2 games

The most telling piece is "Four Super Conferences of 16-20 schools." He said Midwest and southeast. The first school that come to my mind form the West are Kansas and/or Kansas State and Missouri (who may leave the SEC for a "better fit"). Southeast, obviously Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia and Clemson/Florida State? The 20 team superconference alignment, although bulky, would be interesting to see. Mainly because the B1G can add six and then the Big XII can add 10/ACC 6 (depending on what shakes out) and the SEC can add 6 as well. The Pac 12, however, would be even harder pressed to expand unless somehow someway they can poach Texas/Oklahoma before the Big XII can poach FSU/Clemson, which changes the whole power dynamic completely. Of course, with essentially the entire ACC/Big XII able to find a home on the big boys table which way or another, my doomsday "northeast/mid-atlantic private schools only" pointless realignment would go totally out the window (drats, it would've made for great lacrosse!) On the other hand, in addition to 14 schools having 24 slots to go into, that means another 10 schools (7 assuming the remainder of the current Big East get a spot in the Big XII at that point) can get a part on the table, which would be very interesting to see who gets moved from the mid-majors to the power 4. All that being said, I still think we're looking at a gradual move towards 14 before we get to the real 16 team endgame EDIT: However, in a really weird turn of events, the Big XII announced they're going to explore having an alliance with the ACC and two other conferences for bowls, scheduling, TV, and marketing. Wait, whaaa?

Does Madison Square Garden count with its location being right on top of a major transit hub with connections to Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit? Granted, it's by absolutely no means easy to get to by car, nor does any other location in Manhattan

The Coyotes still don't have a television schedule available. Two days before the season starts.

Look, don't take this the wrong way, but throughout this thread you've really been rooting for this four superconference format and I don't know why. Don't get me wrong, even as a student an incoming ACC member, I agree with you that Florida State's probably better off in the Big XII with how upset they were over the TV tier rights and with the direction towards basketball the ACC's taking. However, I just don't see why you'd be happy with half of D-1 football being rendered completely useless (as you'd said in the past you'd want it to just be the 4 superconference champions in the BCS), the entire northeast rendered completely useless (as I pointed out earlier, no Rutgers and Maryland aren't going to threaten the B1G under a 16-team alignment and it's yet to be seen if Penn State can recover from the sanctions they still have for the next 3 years), and the idea of the 4 conferences breaking away from the NCAA, which would create all hell to break loose in the non-revenue sports and put a lot of athletic departments in a serious hole financially if you felt that the NCAA breakaway meant paying players (in addition to screwing everything up outside the 4 conferences as well as FCS, D-2, and D-3). I mean, there's seeing the superconference idea as being inevitable and then there's openly rooting for it, which I feel like you've done the latter for about six months now. Again, I agree with you that Florida State and the ACC aren't a fit for one another, but that doesn't mean you have to root for it to collapse completely. That also doesn't mean you have to post every. single. ACC raid rumor that spreads around the blogosphere. I think by this point we've realized that probably every school in the nation has been rumored to be moving somewhere thanks to some blog report or tweet somebody makes. TL/DR version: What's good for Florida State is one thing, but it doesn't mean rooting for FSU to go to another conference and tearing apart every other school that can't move around in the process

I think everyone and their grandma knows UConn and Cincy won't be stuck in the Big East when all is settled. It's just gonna be a matter of whether it's the ACC to fill in some spots after a raid or if it's the Big XII going for a midwest/northeast expansion.

Also FWIW the MAAC has raided the NEC and took Monmouth, Quinnipiac, and Wagner with them

Just like West Virginia, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and eventually Rutgers, Louisville, and Notre Dame all did, right? I think this Catholic + Butler League could be a really fun basketball conference to watch. It'll be like the old school Big East setup before football got the way it is, plus it's with a bunch of schools that don't have FBS football so they don't have to sacrifice anything to football in a sense. It won't be as strong as the Big East by any means, but it'll still be a really solid group

Eh, I doubt it. I'm ignoring all the AAU requirement stuff because all the schools not in it that I'll mention either were part of it or just on the cusp of it or could be in it if they chose (plus it's all about the money, money, money), but.. -Pitt could be a good fit, but it's too much in an established B1G area being between Penn State and Ohio State -UConn brings another part of the NY market plus a bit of the Boston market, but there's issues with the basketball program and football's being seen as hitting its peak already -Syracuse has the basketball, pretty much a good amount of any New York state market, and the academics (aside from voluntarily dropping out of the AAU), but as a private school that doesn't get the big state funds or put a large emphasis on research, we're not a good fit for the B1G -For the love of god don't bring up Boston College. No. I don't care that they're the Boston market, their only strength as an athletic program since Matt Ryan left for the NFL has been hockey and hockey is probably the 15th most important thing to realignment. Also, see Syracuse about private schools, then tack on a Catholic affiliation. Probably the best academic school they could go with in the northeast, but it's not happening. If anything, the B1G will be expanding south and west.

I really want FSU to stay so that the Big XII will collapse and enjoy the Louisville-FSU match-ups in the future. The "Dude" is just a WVU fan who is butt-hurt about Louisville's admittance to the ACC and how the ACC used academics to deny WVU from entering the conference. He's using rumors to get revenge on the ACC who didn't allow WVU and their "hillbillies" (How my fellow Cardinal fans call WVU fans) from entering the ACC. FSU is just better off staying in the ACC rather than risking their program's future in the Big XII. Why would anybody at WVU care about Louisville and the ACC. The Big XII is ten times the conference the ACC is. Look at the beating WVU took in conference by the Big XII...Basically the same team that hung 70 on (ACC champion) Clemson last year. Does this mean we get to drop 49 on you guys again this year at the Pinstripe Bowl? FUTURE AY-SEE-SEE AY-SEE-SEE AY-SEE-SEE Oh, and for more realignment lulz, some guy went on Twitter claiming to be a Wake Forest blogger that reported GT and Syracuse to the B1G. For a social experiment. I've now heard everything when it comes to realignment on Twitter.

In regards to the Pac 12 So I guess take any of the academic concerns the Pac 12 would have in getting to 14/16 and shoot them out of a cannon into the Pacific Ocean. Also the absurdity of the Pac 12 raiding the Big East would just be the most conference realignment thing to happen in conference realignment.