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4 min 45 sec ago Poggi is just that way.

Poggi is just that way.
6 hours 30 min ago Prediction: iPad textbooks

Prediction: iPad textbooks will offer bookstores even more opportunity to screw you - they'll still sell them for just as much as before but won't ever have reason to buy them back.  That ten cents on the dollar will start to look pretty good.
6 hours 36 min ago Assistant juice and pretzels

Assistant juice and pretzels coordinator for a peewee outfit in Minot, North Dakota.
8 hours 18 min ago If you take the "benefit not

If you take the "benefit not available to the student body" too far then you'll forbid teams from handing out playbooks.  And there are a LOT of other things not available to the student body that are perfectly legal and within the realm of reason.  My football-playing housemate got free milk and other "nutrition" staples from the team supply, most of which went into White Russians for our house.
2 days 5 min ago Here's what really cracks me

Here's what really cracks me up: Part of the reason FSU is said to be looking at the Big 12 is because they feel there's too much Tobacco Road influence in the ACC and they're tired of being told how things will be.

And you're going to a conference with TEXAS?????
2 days 8 min ago True.  When the Pac-10 was

True.  When the Pac-10 was going to become the Pac-16, and the B1G was saying "hold on a minute y'all, we didn't say we only wanted one team" you could kind of see it happening.

Now, though, Texas is "committed to the Big 12" because it's the only place that will put up with their shit - they didn't go to the Pacific because the Pac folks made it clear they'd be the new kids on the block and would be treated as such.  And the ACC didn't want to put up with that, either.

I think it's possible the ACC may now lose a couple teams, but not inevitable, and the conference will not be carved up because I just don't think the B1G and SEC have any interest in being a lifeboat.  We're getting close to the point where all five conferences cannot add anyone else because it wouldn't add any value.
2 days 5 hours ago I am not a lawyer,

I am not a lawyer, but.....there isn't really a lot of precedent.  The only time I can think of where antitrust law was applied was when the owners of the NIT sued the NCAA on the grounds that it was monopolistic to force schools that were selected to the NCAA tournament to play in that tournament and not be able to choose the NIT.  The solution was for the NCAA to buy the NIT (that is, pay $55 million of shut-up-and-go-away money) thus creating an even more monopolistic situation than before.

So there really isn't a lot of useful historical data there.
2 days 6 hours ago I really, really, really wish

I really, really, really wish more people realized this.  4x16 is superficially appealing because it's neat and tidy.  But all this entropy does not magically sort itself out into a neat and tidy solution.
2 days 7 hours ago I think if it came to the

I think if it came to the point where the ACC was completely nuked, then yes, it's more than possible VT and UVA could go separate ways as long as both found a home.

But I don't get why people think the B1G would do this.  Honestly, it would be a dilution of the product.  "Getting the DC area into the BTN" is not worth it.  For the Big Ten, it's ND + anyone, or don't bother.

Besides, I don't want to be in the Big Ten.  If that happened I'd go kicking and screaming.  I like our baseball program, and I also like not having U-M and OSU going into high schools in Virginia and pulling whoever they like and having UVA deal with the scraps.  We are not going to get a reciprocal benefit in Ohio.
2 days 7 hours ago I really don't know if this

I really don't know if this can be considered the case.  It might.  Truth is, if you advanced that theory on a UVA message board the general feeling would be "we hope you're right but we're not convinced the legislature won't fuck us."**  Different governor, eight years ago, etc.

**There would also be the vocal minority that says "I don't care if we're left behind as long as VT gets the hell out."
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