ACC ded

[Tampa Jacket]

Isn't it amazing how it will likely end up that USuCk ends up supporting Clemson to the SEC. Florida would probably support FSU to the SEC. UGAg lead the charge in 1979 to keep GT out of the SEC and got USuCk in. For öööös sake they brought ööööing MISSOURI in. Good God.

I hope Vince Dooley is burning in eternal hellfire.

I’m glad to be rid of UNC and hopefully Duke too. We’ve never played one fair game against them in the ACC. They owned the schedule and the refs.

 

[GoGATech]

I’m glad to be rid of UNC and hopefully Duke too. We’ve never played one fair game against them in the ACC. They owned the schedule and the refs.

Definitely won't miss them in BBall if we move, but even with the help they get in football, each has only beaten us 6 times since 2000, and one of UNC's wins was vacated. Nearly all of Duke's wins came because Cutcliffe had obviously figured out something against CPJ, winning 4 of the last 5 matchups CPJ faced him in.

 

[savbandjacket]

I’m glad to be rid of UNC and hopefully Duke too. We’ve never played one fair game against them in the ACC. They owned the schedule and the refs.

You talk like this is a done deal. Do you know something?

 

[ClubSeats]

FSU didn't "pick" Syracuse. The ACC, in their ultimate wisdom, decided that FSU shouldn't play the team closest to their campus on a yearly basis. The ACC felt it was unimportant for the city with the largest FSU alum base to get to see their team play in Atlanta every other year.

This decision also cost GT AND FSU home game revenue.
FSU at GT at Atlanta = sellout
GT at FSU in Tallahassee = sellout
Syracuse at FSU in Tallahassee = no sellout

It is like the old bastards running the ACC WANT GT and FSU to suffer financially. FSU vs GT is a no brainier for every season.

Yeah, but somebody’s got to get stuck with Syracuse in Louisville

 

[GTCrew4b]

Whichever the megaconference, we'd have to win a lot to not be a second-class citizen. Has quickly become the case in the ACC.

Big Ten seems like a bad idea to me based on the geography of conference members. Sorry but I still think this matters a lot. I think we'll look back on this period of wild conference expansion (and NIL and Portal) as madness. Only way Big Ten is sensible is if a lot of ACC teams go with us.

Depending on who else goes to the Big Ten and how they split up the conference play our travel costs could be better.

In addition many of the really good teams will want to play us in football as regularly as possible to help with recruiting.

People act like we will be stuck playing Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

reality is much different depending on whom comes with as well.

 

[GTLiebs]

You talk like this is a done deal. Do you know something?

I think he meant got rid of playing them every year in football.

 

[WracerX]

FSU didn't "pick" Syracuse. The ACC, in their ultimate wisdom, decided that FSU shouldn't play the team closest to their campus on a yearly basis. The ACC felt it was unimportant for the city with the largest FSU alum base to get to see their team play in Atlanta every other year.

This decision also cost GT AND FSU home game revenue.
FSU at GT at Atlanta = sellout
GT at FSU in Tallahassee = sellout
Syracuse at FSU in Tallahassee = no sellout

It is like the old bastards running the ACC WANT GT and FSU to suffer financially. FSU vs GT is a no brainier for every season.

FSU’s AD said they requested Cuse and not Tech. Each school got to request 2 or 3 schools. If they matched, the ACC made that pair happen. The only school we picked who also picked us was Clemson.

 

[WracerX]

FSU’s AD said they requested Cuse and not Tech. Each school got to request 2 or 3 schools. If they matched, the ACC made that pair happen. The only school we picked who also picked us was Clemson.

New ACC scheduling model brings three permanent opponents

For better or worse, Georgia Tech will not escape its annual meetings with powerhouse Clemson.

www.ajc.com

Looks like schools got to pick two. FSU picked Clemson and Miami. They made no effort to add us.

 

[Liberty]

I wonder if they have more alums in Atlanta than GT has. That may be dumb to wonder but cumulatively they probably are 30x the size of GT and our alums go everywhere.

GT has about 170k alums, Oh St by itself has somewhere north of 700k. At the rate they're going Oh St is conferring as many degrees in a decade as GT has in its existence. We are adding alums at an increasingly rapid pace, 8k per year or so.

GT has 70k alums living in Georgia or about 40% stay home. So out of those 8k per year currently graduating, a little over 3k are staying in Georgia. If every single graduate that stayed in Georgia bought a ticket to a GT football game it would take almost 20 years of grads to fill the stadium.

It's a numbers game. Our base is small. It means we need to be better at practially everything to win.

We want to play big boy sports, we need to start with becoming a big boy sized Institute OR get really ööööing good at practiclly everything.

 

[georgiatech22]

What makes you think Clemson is not going to the SEC? You think South Carolina can block them from getting in? If it came down to it, they would kick South Carolina out just to get Clemson in.

South Carolina would be a stupid school to get rid of for the SEC. Even though their football program has historically been a .500 team, their girls basketball team is historically elite, and their baseball team is very good. If memory serves me correct, they won a national title a few years ago. Missouri would be the team to get rid of if the SEC wanted to.

 

[JJacket]

I’m glad to be rid of UNC and hopefully Duke too. We’ve never played one fair game against them in the ACC. They owned the schedule and the refs.

I still am pissed at the refs winding the clock against UNC at our place, despite Demaryius catching the ball and CLEARLY stepping out of bounds. We still beat that ass.

I ööööing hate Dook and pUNC

 

[juraitwaluzka]

Back in the 80's, the population sign on Roswell Road going towards Sandy Springs had it at about 2 million.

I remember the population sign near Piedmont Hospital. We were pretty excited one day we saw the number drop by 1, figured they must be wired into the hospital but that thought was likely influenced by the drinks.

 

[JJacket]

South Carolina would be a stupid school to get rid of for the SEC. Even though their football program has historically been a .500 team, their girls basketball team is historically elite, and their baseball team is very good. If memory serves me correct, they won a national title a few years ago. Missouri would be the team to get rid of if the SEC wanted to.

Vandy offers nothing. They had to be forced by the SEC to make stadium improvements and went without an AD for a while because they didn't care and were just cashing in on losses.

 

[Nehru Jacket]

FSU’s AD said they requested Cuse and not Tech. Each school got to request 2 or 3 schools. If they matched, the ACC made that pair happen. The only school we picked who also picked us was Clemson.

This is starting to sound like an episode of Leave It To Beaver when Beaver doesn’t get picked for the ball team.

 

[GoGATech]

South Carolina would be a stupid school to get rid of for the SEC. Even though their football program has historically been a .500 team, their girls basketball team is historically elite, and their baseball team is very good. If memory serves me correct, they won a national title a few years ago. Missouri would be the team to get rid of if the SEC wanted to.

I'm not talking about a discussion on who should get kicked out of the SEC if they need to make room... I'm talking about whether the SEC would want Clemson or not. Somebody said Clemson is not going to SEC. The only team in SEC that doesn't want Clemson to join is USCe. If they were forced to make a decision between keeping USCe and taking Clemson, they would trade USCe for Clemson before you can say don't do it.

 

[JJacket]

This is starting to sound like an episode of Leave It To Beaver when Beaver doesn’t get picked for the ball team.

I don't believe for one second the FSU AD chose to travel further from his fanbase to play Syracuse.

 

[smokey_wasp]

I don't believe for one second the FSU AD chose to travel further from his fanbase to play Syracuse.

I do believe FSU is scurred of us, though

 

[WracerX]

I'm not talking about a discussion on who should get kicked out of the SEC if they need to make room... I'm talking about whether the SEC would want Clemson or not. Somebody said Clemson is not going to SEC. The only team in SEC that doesn't want Clemson to join is USCe. If they were forced to make a decision between keeping USCe and taking Clemson, they would trade USCe for Clemson before you can say don't do it.

The SEC could probably drop Vandy and MissSt without losing a beat. Missouri, UK, and USC aren’t cash cows either.

Then you have Atm and Auburn that are upper shelf, but decidedly B teams in their home states.

 

[JJacket]

The SEC could probably drop Vandy and MissSt without losing a beat. Missouri, UK, and USC aren’t cash cows either.

Then you have Atm and Auburn that are upper shelf, but decidedly B teams in their home states.

Arkansas is a red headed step child

 

[Supersize that order mutt]

The SEC could probably drop Vandy and MissSt without losing a beat. Missouri, UK, and USC aren’t cash cows either.

Then you have Atm and Auburn that are upper shelf, but decidedly B teams in their home states.

I guess USCe is not a "cash cow" in the terms I assume you meant, but incredibly, they sell out every home game in spite of seldom having anything worth much on the field. I sure wish we could do that again.