USC and UCLA to Big Ten

StraightFresh said:
I think we're extremely well-positioned to slide into one of the super leagues. We're a perfect package compared to a lot of other contenders for both the SEC and Big Ten:


1: Very strong academics. The Big Ten has a huge boner for academics and isn't going to dumpster dive for the Oklahomas of the world like the SEC will. This alone gives us an automatic massive leg up over a lot of the field.

2: Location. The epicenter of the entire southeastern TV market. Capital of the SEC. Probably not a major factor, but an extremely convenient and enjoyable road trip for enormous numbers of SEC fans and Big Ten grads in Atlanta/the south, of which there is a massive number.

3: History with the SEC. I've always gotten the impression that a lot of the SEC wants GT back in, which gives us an obvious advantage over other competitors.

4: No state/political baggage like a lot of other schools have. UVA may have a hard time ditching VT, UNC may not enjoy going to a conference where they're the little fish in the pond. GT has zero issues like that.

5: All of our problems are temporary/easily solvable. We're a cash infusion and a good coaching hire away from being a legit top 25 football program. We don't have bad academics, we're not in a small market, we're not in a bad recruiting area, we're not located in the middle of nowhere. Our drawbacks are a lot less foundational than like, Washington State's are.

We should really be hoping for more seismic changes like this. It's either we get more major changes and (try to) get absorbed into a super league with a ton of money, or we continue our descent in the ACC with no way out.
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I love the positivity of this post but its not even close to going to happen. Number 1 is the only thing we have going for us. The SEC does not need or want us back, we bring nothing to the conference they don't already have.
 
Why would we want to go to either the SEC or the Big 10? This is professional football, we need to aim higher.

Cabrera and TStan need to get us into the AFC East. We won't be as bad as the Jets or the Dolphins, and it's going to be insane when we upset the Pats.
 
RamblinWreck09 said:
Why would we want to go to either the SEC or the Big 10? This is professional football, we need to aim higher.

Cabrera and TStan need to get us into the AFC East. We won't be as bad as the Jets or the Dolphins, and it's going to be insane when we upset the Pats.
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Mind rite-est of anyone on the board today.
 
theDude47 said:
While true, we have something in our TV market that the B1G will want. That might be enough to get the SEC to want to keep the B1G out of the Deep South.
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Yep, you see it. In addition to everything else, we could be a huge "öööö You" to the SEC from the Big Ten. There's clearly some degree of dick-swinging going on and that's what makes us way more valuable than your UVAs, UNCs, and Kansases of the world. The only home run left for the Big Ten is Notre Dame and then they're looking for filler after that, and we are the primo filler program right now. Reading around various Big Ten forums, we're getting a lot of talk.
 
So much delusion and . . .

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on this thread. It's pretty hard to stomach.

Yeah, they're all going to piss themselves to get Tech because . . . Et-Lanta. Where 90% of the folks are dwag fans anyway. And this same "logic" says they should rather lure Northwestern, Houston, Arizona State, Temple, San Diego State and/or San Jose State who all hail from more populated cities than Et-lanta.

OOOOH, it's the size of the METRO area, you say! So then Northwestern (Chicago), SMU (Dallas), Houston (Houston) and Temple (Philadelphia) all still trump Tech (Atlanta), and The U (Miami) is pretty much a tie (and a much stronger football program).

Oh, and

PointAfterTouchdown said:
The ACC better wake up and go grab Stanford, Cal, Washington, and Oregon. 20 team league. We cant wait for ND
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Oregon and Washington, maybe. Why Cal and Stanford? Weak fan bases. ASU, Colorado or Utah would be better than either of those.
 
theDude47 said:
Our biggest asset is simply being in Atlanta. Works for both the SEC and Big Ten. Hope we leverage it and don’t get left behind.
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Keep dreaming. 90% of folks in Atlanta could not give two öööös about Tech football. Or any college football other than Them Haiy Dwags (and maybe Bama, a little). The SEC ALREADY owns Et-Lanta. Hell, they play their championship game there. What the öööö exactly is adding Tech to the conference going to do for them? Not a damn thing.

As for the Little Sixteen , , , I'm sure all eleventy-seven people who live in Et-Lanta, who went to OSU, and who follow Buckeyes Football might buy a ticket when OSU plays in Et-Lanta. Every tenth or twelfth year. Wow.

The delusionality on this thread is just sad and pathetic.

NONE of these super conferences will want a damn thing to do with Georgia Tech. We're just another of the 100+ college football programs that Do Not Matter. Truth sucks. Bad. But I live in RealVille. Deal with it.
 
I’ve noticed no one has mentioned us jumping ship and joining the Big12 or Pac12. If we’re being honest, that sounds like what we’d do.
 
1982Jacket said:
So much delusion and . . .
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Thanks for the effort to say what I was think better than I would have.

We don't have the majority of fans in any county and maybe not any other zip code besides the one the school is in. It is what it is.
 
1982Jacket said:
Keep dreaming. 90% of folks in Atlanta could not give two öööös about Tech football. Or any college football other than Them Haiy Dwags (and maybe Bama, a little). The SEC ALREADY owns Et-Lanta. Hell, they play their championship game there. What the öööö exactly is adding Tech to the conference going to do for them? Not a damn thing.

As for the Little Sixteen , , , I'm sure all eleventy-seven people who live in Et-Lanta, who went to OSU, and who follow Buckeyes Football might buy a ticket when OSU plays in Et-Lanta. Every tenth or twelfth year. Wow.

The delusionality on this thread is just sad and pathetic.

NONE of these super conferences will want a damn thing to do with Georgia Tech. We're just another of the 100+ college football programs that Do Not Matter. Truth sucks. Bad. But I live in RealVille. Deal with it.
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This is probably true with the SEC but the B1G would love to be in the SE by means of 2 cities Atlanta and Miami for one simple reason... RECRUITING!! GT & UM check the boxes as far as academics as well. GT's only hope to get back in the SEC is if they try and block the B1G from the SE recruiting grounds.
 
It looks like it is B1G or bust for the Jackets. The SEC doesn't want anything to do with the Jackets. We'll probably end up in a Conference USAesq league with the ACC, Big 12, PAC12 leftovers.
 
donsue said:
Agree with this. The fact that the ACC was proud of plucking BC and Syracuse a few years back tells you all you need to know about it being a minor league conference
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theDude47 said:
Our biggest asset is simply being in Atlanta. Works for both the SEC and Big Ten. Hope we leverage it and don’t get left behind.
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Agree. Dan Radakovich and Dabo Swinney are not dumb. You can bet the bank Clempson will be leaving the ACC within the next 15 mos. TStan will be abandoning football and going all in with basketball and baseball if he doesn’t get us out of that pathetic excuse for a football conference too. The ACC will not be in the discussion of the new CFB landscape.
 
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