2012-2013 NCAA Football Thread (National Signing Day)

[BeachSkin]

There is money to be made in Virginia Tech-West Virginia at Fed Ex Field. I bet it happens at some point.

[Major Harris]

That's hilarious.

I remember it. Message boards ran with it. Iirc, it was an actual GT fan.

[earl]

Just heard on 106.7 that Tennessee vols booster offered john gruden a piece of ownership of the cleveland brown to coach the vols. After a quick google search this is all i can find.

http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-footb...and-tennessee/

---------- Post added November-28th-2012 at 05:54 PM ----------

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...s-derek-dooley

Looks to be untrue, but where there's smoke...

---------- Post added November-28th-2012 at 05:55 PM ----------

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...s-derek-dooley

Looks to be untrue, but where there's smoke...

[Gallen5862]

There are rumors that the ACC is still considering UConn and Cincinnatti. The newest rumor is that the ACC is trying to get navy for football only. Navy has a ironclad contract to play notre Dame plus Navy would balance the league in football.

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http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/

Putting aside whether the ACC would actually add Navy or not, I think there’s at least enough substantive reasoning behind why it would work for the ACC that it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Navy obviously fits in with the ACC’s academic standards while providing a foothold back in the state of Maryland (which is a hole for the ACC now with Maryland having defected to the Big Ten). In terms of national TV value, the Navy brand is still quite strong – to the extent that TV money (or lack thereof relative to other power conferences) is the overriding concern to current ACC members (and I honestly think that’s the main issue as opposed to the strength of the football league on-the-field), Navy is arguably more valuable to the TV networks than Louisville or UConn regardless of how the Midshipmen have performed football-wise lately. With Notre Dame as a non-football member in the ACC, Navy could be added as a football-only member to get the membership ranks for both football and basketball back to even numbers. Finally, speaking of Notre Dame, the Irish have an iron-clad rivalry with Navy, so the ACC might be able to convince the Domers to have that game in addition to the 5-game partial conference schedule that they’ll be playing starting in 2014, which would give the ACC a total of 6 Notre Dame games per year (3 of which would be guaranteed to be part of the ACC TV package).

ACC Sports
@ACCSports
David Glenn's sources say ACC discussing expansion this week, 3 potential targets: Louisville, UConn and Navy

[thebluefood]

One of my favorite Lane Stadium stories:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2640969

At first everyone assumed that it was a VT fan, despite the fact that we were HOUSING the then #10 ranked Clemson team with their "thunder and lightning" combo of James Davis and CJ Spiller.

The Clemson papers were all in a rage about how terrible VT fans are....and then the Blacksburg police had a press release confirming that it was a Clemson fan.

And they say we're rowdy down here at Dowdy-Ficklen

[Major Harris]

Navy obviously fits in with the ACC’s academic standards

Which set of academic standards?

[Hersh]

Maybe in 1985. Not now.

You're right. People involved at those schools with rivals don't care anymore about those rivals. Except they do and they are more inclined to watch or go to games involving their rivals. You think ESPN and the like ever want a rivalry like Duke/UNC basketball to end. You can have two teams having bad seasons, but when they play their rival, tickets get bought up and people watch. Can't just have meaningless games all the time.

[ixcuincle]

[earl]

http://www.rsvlts.com/2012/11/26/the...g-infographic/

saw this on another site.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

You're right. People involved at those schools with rivals don't care anymore about those rivals. Except they do and they are more inclined to watch or go to games involving their rivals. You think ESPN and the like ever want a rivalry like Duke/UNC basketball to end. You can have two teams having bad seasons, but when they play their rival, tickets get bought up and people watch. Can't just have meaningless games all the time.

The fans do. The people who look at the numbers don't care. (Basketball is a slightly different kettle of fish, but basketball doesn't really matter at this point. I would say that the only in-season basketball rivalry that matters in an economic sense right now is UNC-Duke and it barely matters).

Pitt has dropped Penn State and WVU in the last decade or so and really doesn't seem to have given a damn.

The only things that matters right now is how much your conference can get for its tv rights, whether your conference can form a cable network, and where that network will be carried.

Each Big Ten school is making over $7 million a year off the Big Ten Network. That is over 10 percent of Michigan and Ohio State's revenue. That is nearly 25 percent of Iowa's profit. It's nearly 50 percent of Wisconsin's profit. Do you think they care more about rivalries or carriage fees right now?

This has been pointed out before. The University of Minnesota's football team is more profitable than Duke's basketball team. That's not because of Paul Bunyon's Axe.

[Gallen5862]

http://articles.courant.com/2012-11-...conn-officials

ACC Adds Louisville, Snubs UConn
November 28, 2012|By PAUL DOYLE, pdoyle@courant.com, The Hartford Courant

ACC Sports Journal reported the UConn, Louisville, Cincinnati, Navy and South Florida pursued the ACC, but only Louisville has the votes needed from the 11 current members.

Pittsburgh and Syracuse are future members, while Notre Dame will bring all of its sports but football to the conference. There has been speculation the ACC could invite three candidates, expanding to 16 members in football. But ESPN.com reports the conference will add only one member because the other Big East candidates (UConn, Cincinnati) have not other landing spots and will be available at a later date.

An ACC source told the ACC Sports Journal that Wednesday’s vote will likely be for one candidate

[big#44]

Tyrann Mathieu is entering the draft. He had skill when he was on the field, you just have to wonder if he has lost a step by having a year off. Either way, whoever picks him up could either get a nice #2 corner at best, or a total head case and distraction.

Edit: well apparently Marcus Lattimore is declaring for the draft as well.

http://fansided.com/2012/11/28/repor...013-nfl-draft/

[pjfootballer]

I was thinking about all this 16 team super conferences. I think the WAC tried that in 1996 and it was a nightmare for the teams. I'm just wondering how they will do it. Will they increase from 8 conference games to 9 or 10? You may see a team within your conference once every 4 years at home and once every 8 years on the road. There were alot of logistical problems when the WAC tried it and ultimately the MWC was born from it.

[DarrellsMyHero28]

Rumors are flying faster on Twitter that GT has been approved for the B1G.

If so, I'd imagine they'll add another to get to 16.

[ixcuincle]

None of the big names are corroborating that report, at least not yet. The rumor stems from some guy who just likes to make up stuff.

At least that's what /cfb says

Will hold on this until someone important substantiates the report