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President Barron issues statement

  • People seriously need to get over the geography. Conferences don't give a shit about geography anymore (at least in terms of having teams being in the same region)

    This post was edited by otown nole29245 on 5/13/2012 at 2:51 PM

    otown nole29245

  • fsukum said...

    .....Between Tallahassee and Boston....

    and between...
    Tallahassee and Syracuse
    Tallahassee and Pittsburgh
    etc, etc

    ....and we're not even the southernmost ACC team. Tallahassee to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas is very manageable. Big East insanity like San Diego and Boise to Storrs and Tampa is not.

    95nole

  • I think the geography is a bigger deal than people are making it out to be.

    I saw the comparison where the average difference in distance is like 250 miles or something.

    More importantly, how many ACC teams can FSU fans from Florida go to see in a day trip, or at most an overnight stay? I count Clemson, GT, Miami, and at a stretch, UNC, Wake, NCState, Duke. That's 7.

    How many Big XII teams can we visit with the same kind of trip?

    Zero.

    That's a big difference. Yes, Syracuse is far as hell. But we have teams that are close to us in the ACC.

    If we're going to the Big XII, we need Clemson, Miami and GT to come with us.

    They start talking about all those teams, and I might not be so stunned to see it happen.

    googolplex

  • googolplex said...

    I think the geography is a bigger deal than people are making it out to be.

    I saw the comparison where the average difference in distance is like 250 miles or something.

    More importantly, how many ACC teams can FSU fans from Florida go to see in a day trip, or at most an overnight stay? I count Clemson, GT, Miami, and at a stretch, UNC, Wake, NCState, Duke. That's 7.

    How many Big XII teams can we visit with the same kind of trip?

    Zero.

    That's a big difference. Yes, Syracuse is far as hell. But we have teams that are close to us in the ACC.

    If we're going to the Big XII, we need Clemson, Miami and GT to come with us.

    They start talking about all those teams, and I might not be so stunned to see it happen.

    It's likely that Miami and Clemson would be in the Big 12 with us. So it'd go from 3 to 2. After that you pretty much have to fly regardless. And our athletic programs aren't taking many bus trips to ACC locales, so it's not like the cost of plane flights will be sky high now, either.

    tricknole ●

  • Isn't the Big XII the same conference that was almost left for dead last year because of the bolting of Nebraska, Mizzou, and A&M? Then replaced them with TCU and the team that screwed our current schedule (WVU)? Nebraska and A&M left because of all the money that Texas was getting from ESPN, both giving up storied rivalries with Oklahoma and Texas, respectively. I'm sorry, but maybe the ACC isn't the best thing going right now, but jumping to the Big XII is not the answer.

    davisp3

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