You would think that. I live right in the middle of ACC country, and the we-wanna-be-football-powers yearning is palpable. Every year the sportswriters jump on the bandwagon and proclaim that this is the new and improved ACC, and every year they still suck. The only thing the ACC has managed to do is pull VT, FSU, Miami and BC down to their sorry level. I mean, Miami lost to Duke, for Godsakes.
Wvu or ncu in east and Texas tech or tcu west. Would be cool but tcu may not want to step into this hornets nest in the west. Think about it they can be ranked highly every year and have 10+ game winning seasons every year without playing a hard schedule. I would like to see wvu in east. Those fools were fun to have visit the board. Would rather play them every year instead of fl
TCU would be more than happy to join an AQ conference. They're still bitter that they aren't in the Big XII. I think they'd love an invite. I don't know if I'd want to do it, Ft. Worth is pretty damn far from Lexington and Gainesville however. I like that the SEC is a close-knit union of states relatively near each other. It's great that students can get to road games by car, and that is ruined with such a remote addition. Something more realistic would be to add two schools closer to the east coast (Louisville and Georgia Tech) and shift a team from the East westward (Tennessee or Vanderbilt). Or, if we must add a Texas team, offer Rice so the West can have their own Vanderbilt. They'd be able to compete in baseball, they have a huge endowment, and their football team would improve with the added recruiting. Plus their academics will lift the SEC's rep even more.
Do you know what Rice's facilities look like? Vandy is about 4 times the size of Rice; don't be fooled because they play Texas, they are far less than Vandy. And they don't draw well in the 4th largest US city. They are terrific academicaly, but should not be in the SEC.
Has their been any real talk of expanding? I still say Wva would be my favorite. They are stupid passionate about their football and fun to have on the board. Remember how they were all over the board pumping their team. I would like to play them every year. It was fun.
You said the death penalty was NOT going to be used, now you are saying it could be used. That's all. Will it take a lot, yes, I agree there but a blanket no way it can happen I would disagree with. If they play Cam the rest of the season and have him at the Heisman ceremony and play in the SECC and BCSC, you can bet your bottom dollar there is a big chance that hammer comes out. That's all I am saying.
This is bull, first and foremost this could be shoving a deserving team like LSU out of the national championship. I can't wait to see Auburn go to the Championship Cam gets ruled ineligible and the opposing team wrecks an SEC school. or they find him ineligible when the seasons over and there ends up being no champion.
If they play cam and he is later found guilty then au will deserve everything that USC got. But just as packem up Pete hauled azz when the hammer fell so will cam. He will be a multi millionare next year and au will lose millions of dollars in tv bucks. This is how you stop it. 1- make a player unelegible for the NFL for the entire time the university he screwed is on probation. 2- make the agent unelegible to represent any player in the NFL for the entire time the university is on program is on probation. 3- any agent on suspension can not work for or recieve any compensation from any other agent thus removing him from the sports industry for the duration of his suspension 4- make it a felony to offer a student athlete any form of compensation that would violate his eligibility with a mandatory 1 year prison term without the possibility or reduction of sentence and a 100000 $ fine to be paid before the suspension is lifted. This would stop all of this Reggie bush- cam newton pay to play shizt for sure once and for all.
Sure, it would stop it. So would shooting a few of these folks. But what country exactly do you live in sir? It amazes me how many people are seemingly willing to throw the Constitution into the sewer, if it involves taking a kid's legal rights away from him, if he happens to be a good football player. A FELONY to offer a kid a business deal? The very idea that accepting a scholarship means that a citizen then gives up his right to have representation that serves his interests is inherently un-American. What the hell are you thinking?
