jasonb56

That's a nice bar in the back!

As for the Bowl game issue, NO, the current BCS Awards those who fall into the top 16 with a "Chance" to play for a BCS bowl...

NOW top 4 get in, and the other bowls in the top tier (Orange, Rose, Fiesta and many others) have already negotiated deals with other conferences for those who don't qualify for the playoffs.

Soooo to sum it up, if we DON'T get into the playoffs, we will end up in a crap bowl most likely, because NOBODY wants to take the BE teams first...

We have no good Bowl tie-ins, and are left hoping for a good place to land if we don't FINISH top 4...

until there is some sense of stability, no contract... Wouldn't be surprised if we get half of what we get now. I would be ecstatic if we just got an extension at this point!

Let's get it all out before the New year... lets hope for good news in 2013!!

Boise will fall back into irrelevance shortly, they were never going to "SAVE" the NBE anyway...

way to p*** on x-mas smazza!!

anybody who reads this board is aware of that!!

I wouldn't mind this, if true... I have meet him and he is a good man!

Lets see what happens...

http://www.courant.com/sports/other/hc-jacobs-1214-20121213,0,639077.column

A little history on how we got here... BE turned down 13.8 million a year for Football schools... now we hope for 4 million :-(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1-oquwoL8

this is how I feel at going back to the CUSA or g*d knows what else...

****, but funny as hell...

Not to be all doomsday and all, but we are approaching USF's "Darkest Hour". IF we can't keep 8-10 teams in a new "quasi" BE football league, it really could spell the beginning of the end for our football program...

IF the BE dissolves, our options to "survive" long-term become infinitely more difficult... MONEY TALKS, and we just won't have any, at least not enough to compete with the big boys.

This re-alignment issue is getting worse by the day for us...

at least UCF will sink with us... IF USF GOES... WE ALLLLLLL GO!!!

Now we just wait and see if the football schools hold together and keep the name, or we go back to CUSA... it has come to this...

It was also reported the Tony was asked if he wanted to coach, could you imagine...

Hearing multiple reports as such...

We don't need him cutting his coaching teeth with us, but he would be a great DC or DB coach with us!!

meet him many times, great man!

Hold on tight boys!!

Wouldn't be surprised if the BE looks at them if and when they get raided in the near future...

and the carousel keeps spinning...

fsu needs to leave acc before usf can join

fsu will never be in a conference with usf

miami must be drooling as they see total domination once again

I agree, they hold the key to our invite to the ACC... they go, or we don't! Pray for more chaos, which if history tells us anything, more chaos is coming...

I just wish they would just put a bullet in our head and tell us it's over instead of slowly disemboweling us in the town square at high noon. Just tell us it's over and we are in a sucky conference. I can't take this crap anymore.

visions of Braveheart!!

From a trusted source at FSU... He is somebody they are going after.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/8683593/cincinnati-bearcats-making-strong-push-join-acc-source

Cincinnati pushing to join ACC

Updated: November 27, 2012, 4:23 PM ETBy Andy Katz | ESPN.com

Cincinnati is making a strong push to gain admittance to the ACC with a campaign about why the school is a more viable option than fellow Big East members Connecticut and Louisville, a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.

The source said Cincinnati officials are cautiously optimistic that the Bearcats are in step with both Louisville and UConn if the ACC were to choose just one school to replace Maryland, which is headed to the Big Ten.

An ACC source said the conference has no timetable to replace Maryland, but there are still a number of options. The league could replace Maryland with one or go for two or three to combat possible defections.

The source said Cincinnati has stepped up the push to get into the ACC in light of the Big East adding Tulane as an all-sports member and East Carolina in football on Tuesday.

In making its case to the ACC, Cincinnati used a combination of athletic and academic qualifications, including how well its football and men's basketball teams have done as well as the size of its endowment and place in national rankings of top universities. Among the points Cincinnati made:

" The Bearcats were one of only six teams to finish in the top 25 of the final USA Today football and men's basketball polls (joining Michigan,Michigan State, Florida State, Baylor and Wisconsin).

" Ohio is a new and fertile recruiting ground and expands the geographic footprint of the ACC. Ohio had the fifth-most NCAA Division I football signees in 2012.

" Cincinnati's endowment is more than $1 billion, which is 26th nationally and more than six members of the ACC, and twice the size of Maryland's.

" The school is tied for 34th among public research universities, according to the Center for Measuring University Performance. That's in line with several other ACC schools.

" Cincinnati has nine Fortune 500 companies in the area, plus is the 35th-ranked TV market.

Would be nice if we heard something about USF "trying" as well... at least they are being PROACTIVE!!

He's aggressive, and plays a wide open offense. Not sure about him personally, but his team should score points! Make sure we bring in a good defensive coordinator :-)

i will be re-newing, regardless... but I won't be happy!!

Now, if USF is left playing UMass and ECU for in-conference games going forward, then maybe no :-)

This would all be highly entertaining if USF were already accepted to the Big 10 or SEC.

USF fans would celebrate like we won the National Championship...

Then there is this nugget:

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BE has learned SMU SdSU UH BSU are all in talks with as many as 3 other BCS leagues.

The Skyway will be a very busy place if these schools go to the B12/Pac10/ACC before us...

We have to hope for as much chaos as possible at this point... Boys (and ladies) this could get real ugly, real quick...

Go to the game, give the seniors a proper send-off... pray like hell that regardless of the score we get a new coach...

p.s. maybe stay till half-time, then go home and watch Alabama vs Georgia playoff game. Go Bulls!!