Georgia Tech, B1G approved?
Clemson 247 twittering that Georgia Tech has been approved into the B1G.
Sources are indicating that the #B1G has approved #GT as its 15th member. Stay tuned... @CFravel247 @Clemson247
November 30th, 2012 at 2:10 PM ^
please no
November 30th, 2012 at 2:11 PM ^
Pretty decent club lacrosse team in a region with precious few D1 squads. They might be a prime candidate to jump to D1, especially with Big Ten $$$.
November 30th, 2012 at 2:17 PM ^
November 30th, 2012 at 2:23 PM ^
Kinda crazy that the B1G targeted bottom-feeding crumbs while the SEC will likely absorb, at worst, middle-of-the-pack programs.
November 30th, 2012 at 2:31 PM ^
Obviously FSU is the catch of that conference, but that was never going to happen because of geography. But is Clemson really better than the teams we got? Sure, they've been good at football recently, but not great, and they bring nothing else to the table in terms of basketball, a good market, academics, etc.
November 30th, 2012 at 10:11 PM ^
FSU and Clemson aren't going to the SEC. There's an agreement between the UF, USCe, and UGA presidents to block any of those schools' instate compadres from joining, and three is all it takes to block a new member.
November 30th, 2012 at 2:20 PM ^
Please?
November 30th, 2012 at 2:22 PM ^
PLEASE let it be true..I live in ATLANTA!!!!
November 30th, 2012 at 2:29 PM ^
Jim Delaney is looking to add Oxford as the 16th school. This will add the London television market as well as the rest of UK. Who cares if they will be playing Rugby? Its all about the $.
They do make sense Academically though.
November 30th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
"Rugby? just a different style offense, that's all."
November 30th, 2012 at 2:35 PM ^
I have a friend in Chapel Hill who says that a B1G move is being talked about all over campus. Then again, at this point that may be true of half the campuses in America.
November 30th, 2012 at 2:49 PM ^
That would be the Golden Goose, in my opinion.
November 30th, 2012 at 2:41 PM ^
Maybe they should have delayed honoring Willis Ward until it was a home game against Georgia Tech.
November 30th, 2012 at 5:28 PM ^
This is getting ridiculous. This is nothing more than a land grab. Delany is only concerned with TV ratings. Competition be damned. The SEC gained talented programs while we gained Rutgers and Maryland. Now Georgia Tech? Georgia Tech is not terrible, but why wouldn't we go after Oklahoma, OSU, Texas, K State? The Big 12 is obviously going to end up disappearing. I would think those schools would jump at a conference like the B1G TEN. Delany is an idiot.
November 30th, 2012 at 6:30 PM ^
K-State. GT is a better get than them. The Pac12 tried to get Texas and the Ok schools and we seen how that went. People jumped all over Delany about the Big10 Network and look how that worked out.
November 30th, 2012 at 8:38 PM ^
I wouldn't mind Kansas, but it would be for selfish reasons. I went to my first non-bowl Michigan game in over two decades this year to Nebraska, because it was driveable. Kansas would be an even shorter trip.
November 30th, 2012 at 8:41 PM ^
FUCK NO!!
November 30th, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
Did not see this very bubble-bursting podcast posted here yet, so here we go.
http://www.accsports.com/blogs/david-glenn/2012113014151/david-glenns-realignment-rumor-rant.php
December 1st, 2012 at 1:33 AM ^
Maybe then we'll finally get rid of the Leaders and Legends divisions, get an East and West and when we sing the Victors "Champions of the West" will be actually mean something for the first time since the Northwest Ordinance days