Warrior General Games

Originally posted by MoJames
I'm thinking getting the aggys out of the Big12 is a pretty big win. Or was that last year?

Keep telling yourselves that. Those WV television numbers are going to make money rain from the sky!

Originally posted by RayRay99
Keep telling yourselves that. Those WV television numbers are going to make money rain from the sky!

tbh money is the last thing I would think about in regards of getting aggy out of the Big 12.

Miami will give in to the pressure and join Florida State...
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2012/5/14/3019622/conference-realignment-big-12-expansion-florida-state-miami

"They do everything they can to set themselves apart, that they are the very best, they are the elite," says Bill Byrne, who retired last week after 10 years as Texas A&M's athletics director. "I believe DeLoss (Dodds, the Longhorns' longtime AD) said 'we are the Joneses.' They act that way, and they spend that way."
If that smacks of envy, it's tinged with an archrival's grudging admiration.
"They're absolutely committed to having the best athletics program in the country," Byrne says. "You've got to tip your hat to them."

I am amazed that UT recruits early, doesn't make many offers, gets the commits and they stick.
Also, they are pretty studly in most every sport, men or women

Originally posted by AC
Miami will give in to the pressure and join Florida State...
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2012/5/14/3019622/conference-realignment-big-12-expansion-florida-state-miami

Florida State isn't going anywhere near that cesspool unless the ACC implodes, which is unlikely now.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/14/florida-state-realignment/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a12&eref=sihp

Originally posted by FSU President
I want to assure you that any decision made about FSU athletics will be reasoned and thoughtful and based on athletics, finances and academics. Allow me to provide you with some of the issues we are facing:

In support of a move are four basic factors argued by many alumni:

1. The ACC is more basketball than it is football, and many of our alumni view us as more football oriented than the ACC.

2. The ACC is too North Carolina centric and the contract advantages basketball and hence advantages the North Carolina schools.

3. The Big 12 has some big football schools that match up with FSU.

4. The Big 12 contract (which actually isn't signed yet) is rumored to be $2.9M more per year than the ACC contract. We need this money to be competitive.

But, in contrast:

1. The information presented about the ACC contract that initiated the blogosphere discussion was not correct. The ACC is an equal share conference and this applies to football and to basketball there is no preferential treatment of any university with the exception of 3rd tier rights for women's basketball and Olympic sports. FSU is advantaged by that aspect of the contract over the majority of other ACC schools.

2. Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas A&M left the Big 12, at least in part because the Big 12 is not an equal share conference. Texas has considerably more resource avenues and gains a larger share (and I say this as a former dean of the University of Texas at Austin -- I watched the Big 12 disintegration with interest). So, when fans realize that Texas would get more dollars than FSU, always having a competitive advantage, it would be interesting to see the fan reaction.

3. Much is being made of the extra $2.9M that the Big 12 contract (which hasn't been inked yet) gets over the ACC contract. Given that the Texas schools are expected to play each other (the Big 12 is at least as Texas centered than the ACC is North Carolina centered), the most likely scenario has FSU playing Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, and West Virginia on a recurring basis and the other teams sporadically (and one more unnamed team has to join to allow the Big 12 to regain a championship game), we realize that our sports teams can no longer travel by bus to most games the estimate is that the travel by plane required by FSU to be in the Big 12 appears to exceed the $2.9M difference in the contract actually giving us fewer dollars than we have now to be competitive with the Big 12 teams, who obviously do not have to travel as far. Any renegotiated amount depends not just on FSU but the caliber of any other new team to the Big 12.

4. Few believe that the above teams will fill our stadium with fans of these teams and so our lack of sales and ticket revenue would continue.

5. We would lose the rivalry with University of Miami that does fill our stadium.

6. It will cost between $20M and $25M to leave the ACC we have no idea where that money would come from. It would have to come from the Boosters which currently are unable to support our current University athletic budget, hence the 2% cut in that budget.

7. The faculty are adamantly opposed to joining a league that is academically weaker and in fact, many of them resent the fact that a 2% ($2.4M) deficit in the athletics budget receives so much attention from concerned Seminoles, but the loss of 25% of the academic budget (105M) gets none when it is the most critical concern of this University in terms of its successful future.

I present these issues to you so that you realize that this is not so simple (not to mention that negotiations aren't even taking place). One of the few wise comments made in the blogosphere is that no one negotiates their future in the media. We can't afford to have conference affiliation be governed by emotion ¬ it has to be based on a careful assessment of athletics, finances and academics. I assure you that every aspect of conference affiliation will be looked at by this institution, but it must be a reasoned decision.

Eric Barron
President

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/14/florida-state-realignment/index.html#ixzz1uyfzmKeo

Originally posted by King of Bling
Also, they are pretty studly in most every sport, men or women

Our AD has been better than their overall for a few years now.

Originally posted by MoJames
tbh money is the last thing I would think about in regards of getting aggy out of the Big 12.

Yeah, y'all were so ready to get us out of the Big 12-2-1-1+2 that lawyers and legislators became involved trying to keep us there.

By the way, how come I am not hearing about the poor student athletes who will have to fly to games in lands far far away where mama can't see them play? Morgantown, Miami, and Tallahassee would make the Big XII travel schedule such a horrible ordeal for the student athletes that someone should step in and prevent such a tragedy.

Unfortunately for the sips, most quality schools scoff at joining such a poor academic fraternity, not to mention staying well clear after seeing the puppet strings all lead to Austin.

Originally posted by RayRay99
Yeah, y'all were so ready to get us out of the Big 12-2-1-1+2 that lawyers and legislators became involved trying to keep us there.

See this is the difference between Texas and aggy, the only legal "action" that was taken was Baylor not signing a contract to not sue the SEC. I'm not sure if this extended to ISU or Kansas, but Baylor for sure.

And you spin this as an attack from the entire conference (Big 12) on aggy.

edit too many attacks

Originally posted by RayRay99
Our AD has been better than their overall for a few years now.

Your AD just got fired for sucking. He then spoke about how awesome UT is. Suck it.

Originally posted by RayRay99
By the way, how come I am not hearing about the poor student athletes who will have to fly to games in lands far far away where mama can't see them play? Morgantown, Miami, and Tallahassee would make the Big XII travel schedule such a horrible ordeal for the student athletes that someone should step in and prevent such a tragedy.

Unfortunately for the sips, most quality schools scoff at joining such a poor academic fraternity, not to mention staying well clear after seeing the puppet strings all lead to Austin.

DeLoss is against FSU and Miami joining. You should try actually learning the facts before you open your stupid mouth. He's been clear that he prefers the Big 12 as is. Keep making shit up and looking like a stupid ag.

Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
Your AD just got fired for sucking.

AD = Athletic Department. Use context clues.

Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
DeLoss is against FSU and Miami joining. You should try actually learning the facts before you open your stupid mouth. He's been clear that he prefers the Big 12 as is. Keep making shit up and looking like a stupid ag.

Yet tons of your fans want it to happen. The same ones who had the attitude and arguments I stated. All of the rumors I have made up though, nobody in Austin has even heard of such a thing of course. They are waiting for that Notre Dame offer to come through any minute now. In fact, it was probably a story broken on the LHN, that is why nobody knows about it.

Originally posted by RayRay99
Yet tons of your fans want it to happen. The same ones who had the attitude and arguments I stated. All of the rumors I have made up though, nobody in Austin has even heard of such a thing of course. They are waiting for that Notre Dame offer to come through any minute now. In fact, it was probably a story broken on the LHN, that is why nobody knows about it.



AD = Athletic Director

Originally posted by Pwned
AD = Athletic Director



Yup, AD is only an acronym for one thing...

Originally posted by RayRay99
Yup, AD is only an acronym for one thing...



Don't be soo easy to troll, and so stupid at the same time. Who the hell uses AD as an acronym for Athletic Department?