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BrentwoodJacket said:
Will that work?
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If it doesn't we accept the B1G invite. It is a win-win scenario if we play it right. I am ok with going back to the SEC, and I am ok if GT, UNC, UVA & Miami jump to the B1G. I have a feeling that if we go to the B1G it won't be alone, they will take Miami and/or UNC with us.
 
QuadF said:
The best thing gt can do is leverage the big 10 interest to pressure the sec into an invite.
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Holy Moley you guys have got to be kidding me! You actually want into a conference of Alabama, LSU, Texas, TAMU, OU, Florida, and UGAg, not to mention Auburn, Tennessee, Miss State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arky, USCe, and Vandy? Does anyone have any idea how far ahead of GT that first group is now? GA Tech would compete with the second group, but not the first. That means we would, in our best years, be a mid-tier program.

I just don't believe that the powers that be at GA Tech have any plan to level GT football up to compete with that. Perhaps if I saw that plan and some of that commitment first, I could believe it. My overriding conviction is that they would siphon off as many dollars a possible to add more women's sports, to create an even bigger equity and diversity program, and to turn all our athletic environments green. I am sorry, but in my lifetime, I have never once seen anything that convinces me that the administration, faculty senate, or the state BOR has any conviction to turn GA Tech football into a national powerhouse. I do, however, think that Cabrera is "a Spaniard who *loves* his soccer with a passion," and who has turned that passion toward GA Tech football. I do believe that he would love to see it. I appreciate his passion. However, he is one voice among many, and I don't think he is able by himself to do it.

If the choice is binary, as is so often presented on this board as truth, that we have a choice of either playing a slate of great teams (take your pick: SECheat or B1G) and getting our butts kicked regularly or playing App State, W Carolina, EZU, Furman, Dook, WFU, Syracuse, Boston College and the like, and "winning our share," then absolutely moving to one of the top 2 is rational. However, there are likely other alternatives that will present. Two mega-conferences cannot gobble up all viable teams across the nation. There will be plenty of good programs not invited that can make up another 2-3 great college conferences. The ACC may well cease to exist as it is today, but it would leave a void that would be filled somehow, and not by WCU, App St, EZU, Furman, etc.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
Will that work?
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If it doesn't we accept the B1G invite. It is a win-win scenario if we play it right. I am ok with going back to the SEC, and I am ok if GT, UNC, UVA & Miami jump to the B1G. I have a feeling that if we go to the B1G it won't be alone, they will take Miami and/or UNC with us.

EDIT: sorry for the double post, I blame a system error
 
aeromech said:
If it doesn't we accept the B1G invite. It is a win-win scenario if we play it right. I am ok with going back to the SEC, and I am ok if GT, UNC, UVA & Miami jump to the B1G. I have a feeling that if we go to the B1G it won't be alone, they will take Miami and/or UNC with us.

EDIT: sorry for the double post, I blame a system error
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I don't think UNCheat would jump w/o the other three "triangle" schools. I'd sooner go into the B1G than the reworked SECheat. I think it's not near as deep a football conference and the west coast teams add some nice destinations. Forget Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, N. Illinois, N. Indiana, Ohio, and PA in the late fall. Give me some Seattle, Oregon, and LA anytime. Above all, forget the cretins in Baton Rouge, College Station, Norman, Tuscalooser, Auburn, Fayetteville, Starkville, Knoxville, Oxford, Columbia, and especially Athens, etc.
 
It has to be all about the money. It rules all. Just look at the PGA/LIV merger.

How much more $$$ would we get by switching to B10?
 
Yup...
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stinger78 said:
Holy Moley you guys have got to be kidding me! You actually want into a conference of Alabama, LSU, Texas, TAMU, OU, Florida, and UGAg, not to mention Auburn, Tennessee, Miss State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Arky, USCe, and Vandy? Does anyone have any idea how far ahead of GT that first group is now? GA Tech would compete with the second group, but not the first. That means we would, in our best years, be a mid-tier program.

I just don't believe that the powers that be at GA Tech have any plan to level GT football up to compete with that. Perhaps if I saw that plan and some of that commitment first, I could believe it. My overriding conviction is that they would siphon off as many dollars a possible to add more women's sports, to create an even bigger equity and diversity program, and to turn all our athletic environments green. I am sorry, but in my lifetime, I have never once seen anything that convinces me that the administration, faculty senate, or the state BOR has any conviction to turn GA Tech football into a national powerhouse. I do, however, think that Cabrera is "a Spaniard who *loves* his soccer with a passion," and who has turned that passion toward GA Tech football. I do believe that he would love to see it. I appreciate his passion. However, he is one voice among many, and I don't think he is able by himself to do it.

If the choice is binary, as is so often presented on this board as truth, that we have a choice of either playing a slate of great teams (take your pick: SECheat or B1G) and getting our butts kicked regularly or playing App State, W Carolina, EZU, Furman, Dook, WFU, Syracuse, Boston College and the like, and "winning our share," then absolutely moving to one of the top 2 is rational. However, there are likely other alternatives that will present. Two mega-conferences cannot gobble up all viable teams across the nation. There will be plenty of good programs not invited that can make up another 2-3 great college conferences. The ACC may well cease to exist as it is today, but it would leave a void that would be filled somehow, and not by WCU, App St, EZU, Furman, etc.
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Obviously I totally agree. For me, my view is this - we are already a mid level program so the conference we are in doesn’t matter because GT itself has already decided they are very comfortable being mid level.

I much prefer to be mid level in a conference like the SEC or BIG which are properly run leagues than staying in a conference like the ACC that has been run by clowns with favoritism galore. Obviously, my first choice is the SEC, but I don’t think there is anyway we get invited. They simply don’t need us. That’s why to me I’ll take the BIG all day long. But even if we end up in another conference with a bunch of no name teams then I’ll continue to root for our uniforms even if we only have 10-15,000 in the stands week to week.
 
The SEC and GT need a therapy session so we can make up. That’s where we belong. While the B1G is better than the current circumstances, we are a southern football program. It just ain’t the same in the Midwest…not a right or wrong issue it’s just different.
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I understand the general nature of your point, but in effect wouldn’t that require Ugag to feel sympathetic towards our lowly plight, almost all of which has been self-inflicted, and then come to our rescue?
 
CornerBlitz said:
The SEC and GT need a therapy session so we can make up. That’s where we belong. While the B1G is better than the current circumstances, we are a southern football program. It just ain’t the same in the Midwest…not a right or wrong issue it’s just different.
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The only thing we have in common with the other southern programs from the SEC is geography. Would being in that conference again all of a sudden change the fans/schools' money commitment to try and compete athletically? And as others have posted, no way would Ugag support such a move.

Academically, GT has much more in common with the B1G of course.
 
GT98 said:
The only thing we have in common with the other southern programs from the SEC is geography. Would being in that conference again all of a sudden change the fans/schools' money commitment to try and compete athletically? And as others have posted, no way would Ugag support such a move.

Academically, GT has much more in common with the B1G of course.
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Would uga really oppose that now? I mean I can understand why they were against this in the past, but today, and especially with people's short-term only memory, would they be more likely to have no problem with us in there since that would be in their minds a guaranteed conference win every season, that seems like how they would think about it.
 
juraitwaluzka said:
Would uga really oppose that now? I mean I can understand why they were against this in the past, but today, and especially with people's short-term only memory, would they be more likely to have no problem with us in there since that would be in their minds a guaranteed conference win every season, that seems like how they would think about it.
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This. And sadly it's like an extra home game for them.
 
juraitwaluzka said:
Would uga really oppose that now? I mean I can understand why they were against this in the past, but today, and especially with people's short-term only memory, would they be more likely to have no problem with us in there since that would be in their minds a guaranteed conference win every season, that seems like how they would think about it.
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I don’t think so. The downside for them is on those days we get lucky and win. It’s like now with us playing GA State or GSU or KSU. There is absolutely no upside for us to play those teams. If we win no one cares. If we lose then we become a joke. Those who run UGA aren’t that stupid to allow themselves to become a lottery ticket for GT with an in conference game. Would we want GA State joining the ACC today?
 
OptionJacket said:
I don’t think so. The downside for them is on those days we get lucky and win. It’s like now with us playing GA State or GSU or KSU. There is absolutely no upside for us to play those teams. If we win no one cares. If we lose then we become a joke. Those who run UGA aren’t that stupid to allow themselves to become a lottery ticket for GT with an in conference game. Would we want GA State joining the ACC today?
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I didn't say that their position would be sound, it was more a commentary about how they think (sic) versus how non mouth drooling, leg humping inbreds think.

The flaw in the logic is "Those who run UGA aren’t that stupid". I'd say don't sell them short, never underestimate their proclivities for unsound rationality due to a nice mix of arrogance, low IQ and an extra heapin' helpin' of sister lovin' (not that there's anything wrong with that if your sister is actually hot but still).
 
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