Originally Posted by Lord Supremo

More conference expansion rumors: being reported now that UNC has an official offer to join the B1G, and that UVA or GT would be next if UNC accepted.

Bill Simmons just went on a rant on SVP & Russilo about college conferences and I fully agree.

Its such a money grab anymore that in a few years, there wont be any rivalries left.

I know, I know it's all about money and it's football dominated but god damnit I'll be so mad if they Duke/UNC rivalry is gone. We'd have to at least play once a year still as a non-conference match in basketball.

 

Originally Posted by Lord Supremo

Bill Simmons cares about college sports? Didn't know that, interesting. Do you have a link?

No, he doesnt at all lol. He went on a rant about how awful college basketball is and it snowballed into how ridiculous on the conferenece movement is.

*edit* I was watching it live on TV, but im sure there will be a link at some point.

http://gamedayr.com/gamedayr/big-ten...ina-whos-next/

I persoanlly think Greed is runining college athletics

Yeah I heard Simmons as well, he also said something along the lines of his alma mater has given up on sports so he could care less about college sports. If he went somewhere relevant then he said he would care.

As long as they are playing basketball and as long as there's a tournament I couldn't really care too much about conference make-up.

Although, no UNC-Duke would suck.

Football money controls the college conference landscape now. The schools arent thinking about basketball when making these decisions. Its pretty obv.

 

Originally Posted by Lord Supremo

ftfy

no one is adding UNC and UVA/GT because of their historic football dominance.

Although, fwiw, Georgia Tech became one of the 3 or 4 most dominant programs over a 15-year period in my NCAA 12 dynasty, so there's that.

Not sure what ftfy means, but they might not be getting added for their football teams, but I bet they are going so they can get a share of the football money.

B1G gets more money adding UNC in basketball, UNC gets more money leaving ACC to join the B1G for football.

If it wasnt about money, this move wouldnt happen.

 

Originally Posted by Popperhead

I will say from what i understand its roughly 50 million (maybe more for unc) to leave the ACC basically three years dividends. and said dividends from what i gather are based off performance some deeper runs create bigger cheques

depends on what happens with the Maryland suit. the 50 million is not set in stone. lawyers will lawyer.

B1G diluting their mediocre football product for academics and basketball... gotta love it.

http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2013/0..._river_default

 

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Seventy-four people, a majority of them University of Alabama students, were arrested today in Tuscaloosa during a West Alabama Narcotics Task Force roundup.
The 183 charges for the 71 men and 3 women include sale of controlled substance, sale of marijuana, possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia...

get those menaces out of college and into jail where they can't hurt anyone else!

The lower limit for shootings being relevant has been raised to 5 victims. I think dhubermex updated the forum rules with that.

 

Originally Posted by SpankyHamm

The lower limit for shootings being relevant has been raised to 5 victims. I think dhubermex updated the forum rules with that.

we should just start letting people out of jail who have only shot and killed up to 4 people as well. jail crowding problem SOLVED!

 

Originally Posted by Popperhead

Ya it truly is a shame tho like u say sullying their Football with the mighty heels LOLOLOL Then adding schools just to have a footprint in certain areas all while crushing tradition. And lets be realistic for UNC they;ll get crushed in Football and no longer be the top dawg in hoops all for the mighty dollar (Which by the way they have ALot of already)

This is the first year in a long time the Big 10 has been better than the ACC in basketball. The ACC is a basketball conference really.

 

Originally Posted by Admiral

Video just got posted a few days ago of a live Rage Against the Machine show from 21 years ago in a record store.

00:40 - Bombtrack
04:53 - Darkness of Greed
08:20 - Take the Power Back
13:48 - Bullet in the Head
19:22 - Settle for Nothing
23:55 - Killing in the Name
30:02 - Know your Enemy
34:35 - Freedom

Deserves to be on every page. Damn shame the mic cut out.

Alright. I shouldn't have said it like that. But over the last 20 or so years the ACC has consistently been a better conference than the Big 10. I think KenPom is a great and all but his metrics favor teams that play a slow, methodical defensive style. Last time I looked he had Wisconsin 8th and Pitt 4th in his rankings. That's going to favor the Big 10 and they're 37-35 games.

I also don't know how long they have been doing it but the ACC has consistently handled the Big 10 in the ACC Big 10 challenge. The ACC is 82-61. I'm not sure about the Big 10's record. They tied 6-6 this year even though this has been a huge year for the Big 10 and a pretty pedestrian one for the ACC. In the 14 years they have been doing the challenge the ACC is 10-3-1. I obviously went and googled it