FSU to B12?

[Who'sYourData?]

The latest RUMOR is that it will be Louisville that joins the Big 12 with FSU, and Notre Dame will also joing the Big 12 in all sports except football with a certain number of non-conference games against B12 opponents every year. The latest RUMOR is that the news will break late June/early July. With help from their politician and Oklahoma, Louisville has managed to beat out Clemson as the FSU partner.

*** Note that this is not a confirmed done deal being reported by the standard media. (They will catch up in a few weeks after everyone else knows.) ***

Looks like @Gswaim is reporting this and he has yet to get anything right.

I have followed him for eightteen months, and he has been right on everything. The only realignment he did not report in advance was Pitt and 'Cuse to the ACC. He doesn't have sources in the BE or ACC. But he has nailed everything in the B12, long before anyone else reports it.

Every week he says a new scenario so he is bound to get it right. A year ago he was saying USF would be in the big 12 when they expanded to 16. He has linked Louisville to the ACC, SEC and big 12 in the last 6 months. A tweet from a week ago...

@MikePrice76: @GSwaim where do you think Louisville goes? BigXII or ACC?" // ACC eventually.

a tweet from a year ago

"@1rodneyk: @GSwaim why not south Florida?" // I'd guess #USF in for round 2 next summer.

So you are criticizing him because he said he thinks Louisville will go to the ACC and he guesses USF for round 2 next summer?

Really?

You don't see any difference between that and this?

Don't have time to respond to everyone right now, but changes will happen quickly the end of June, early July with ‪#FSU‬, ‪#ND‬ & ‪#CardNation‬.

If you read all of his tweets, instead of selective ones, he explains the discussions going on behind the scenes. Obviously things change as negotiations are ongoing.

Do you expect the FSU AD wakes up one day and says "Let's go to the Big 12" and then it happens the next day?

He is giving you what happens behind the scenes. If you aren't interested in following what might happen, don't read this thread and don't follow Greg Swaim. Wait until it is announced on SportsCenter.

[Who'sYourData?]

Greg Swaim has been reporting that FSU is talking to the Big 12 for six months. He has also been reporting that Louisville was in discussions with the Big 12 since before WVU went. More recently, Clemson was in the mix and Notre Dame is negotiating something.

Those are the only schools he has reported.

Someone else reported that Clemson was a lock, and Swaim was saying they weren't.

What do you expect when the conference is talking to several schools?

[Reliable Source]

The latest RUMOR is that it will be Louisville that joins the Big 12 with FSU, and Notre Dame will also joing the Big 12 in all sports except football with a certain number of non-conference games against B12 opponents every year. The latest RUMOR is that the news will break late June/early July. With help from their politician and Oklahoma, Louisville has managed to beat out Clemson as the FSU partner.

*** Note that this is not a confirmed done deal being reported by the standard media. (They will catch up in a few weeks after everyone else knows.) ***

Looks like @Gswaim is reporting this and he has yet to get anything right.

I have followed him for eightteen months, and he has been right on everything. The only realignment he did not report in advance was Pitt and 'Cuse to the ACC. He doesn't have sources in the BE or ACC. But he has nailed everything in the B12, long before anyone else reports it.

Every week he says a new scenario so he is bound to get it right. A year ago he was saying USF would be in the big 12 when they expanded to 16. He has linked Louisville to the ACC, SEC and big 12 in the last 6 months. A tweet from a week ago...

@MikePrice76: @GSwaim where do you think Louisville goes? BigXII or ACC?" // ACC eventually.

a tweet from a year ago

"@1rodneyk: @GSwaim why not south Florida?" // I'd guess #USF in for round 2 next summer.

Which one of those things didn't come true? Has UL moved yet? Is summer over yet?.

[jdm]

Sorry I brought it up . You are right @gswaim is the god of expansion. I look forward to next week when he adds another team to his dart board. Keep drinking the koolaid.

[Reliable Source]

Sorry I brought it up . You are right @gswaim is the god of expansion. I look forward to next week when he adds another team to his dart board. Keep drinking the koolaid.

You seemed to have earned more than your fair share of snark in a mere 84 posts. Maybe you were busy trolling elsewhere in the interim. But judging by your superior powers of observation and keen intellect, I am sure you will fit right in with some of our more esteemed posters, who find it much easier to denigrate the posts of others, rather than generate original thought or provide new information and insight. Tell us o wise new poster. What is YOUR assessment of how conference realignment will sort itself out? I am sure with such a keen mind you can come up with something to satisfy our intellect. As usual, I suspect construction, will be a tad more difficult than demolition. Take some time, some minds need a little longer to ruminate.That, and we want to have you on record, so that we can do to you, what you insist on trying to do to others. Edited June 20, 2012 by Bullwinkle

[Bull-by-Marriage]

Sorry I brought it up . You are right @gswaim is the god of expansion. I look forward to next week when he adds another team to his dart board. Keep drinking the koolaid.

You seemed to have earned more than your fair share of snark in a mere 84 posts. Maybe you were busy trolling elsewhere in the interim. But judging by your superior powers of observation and keen intellect, I am sure you will fit right in with some of our more esteemed posters, who find it much easier to denigrate the posts of others, rather than generate original thought or provide new information and insight. Tell us o wise new poster. What is YOUR assessment of how conference realignment will sort itself out? I am sure with such a keen mind you can come up with something to satisfy our intellect. As usual, I suspect construction, will be a tad more difficult than demolition. Take some time, some minds need a little longer to ruminate.That, and we want to have you on record, so that we can do to you, what you insist on trying to do to others.

Dude, don't let "him/her" get to you. The way that Data framed his last post albeit with with a healthy dose of sarcasm, was perfect. He made it perfectly clear that none of it was actual fact, but may happen in the future.

[Rizman]

We need to see more cheerleader re-alignment.

[Skingraft]

We need to see more cheerleader re-alignment.

Boom... Nailed it

[Reliable Source]

And Boom goes the dynamite.

June 20, 2012

Chip Brown

Orangebloods.com Columnist

Talk about it in Inside the 40 Acres

Two sources in the Big 12 said Wednesday the possibility of Notre Dame moving its Olympic sports out of the Big East and into the Big 12 is becoming more and more likely.

Speculation is growing among those sources that an announcement could come from South Bend before the end of the summer.

As part of such a move, Notre Dame, which has a contract with NBC to televise its home football games through the 2015 season, would agree to play up to six football games against Big 12 competition (but most likely three or so to start with), sources tell Orangebloods.com.

Notre Dame would maintain its independence in football ... for now. If the Irish ever felt compelled to join a conference in football, the Big 12 would be ready and waiting for them. The trusted relationship between Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick can not be underestimated if such a move transpires.

Notre Dame's explanation to the Big East would be that the Big East is no longer the conference the Irish joined as a non-football member back in 1995, the sources said. Since the Irish joined, the Big East has seen Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College leave with Syracuse and Pittsburgh planning to join the ACC in two years.

Incoming Big East members include Central Florida, San Diego State, SMU, Houston and Navy.

One of ND's biggest attractions to the Big 12 is the ability to have its own Tier 3 television network, along the lines of Texas' Longhorn Network. Tier 3 inventory is whatever is left after the TV partners with Tier 1 (ABC/ESPN in the Big 12) and Tier 2 (Fox in the Big 12) rights select the football and basketball games they want to air.

Tier 3 inventory typically consists of 1 or 2 football games (although DeLoss Dodds has told reporters LHN could air three Texas football games in 2012) and less than a dozen basketball games as well as Olympic sports.

Sources in the Big 12 told Orangebloods.com during the league meetings that Notre Dame as a non-football member is the only expansion target that would receive universal approval from the league.

While sources say Texas and Oklahoma favor the Big 12 as a 10-team league for now, there are some in the Big 12 who think a move by Notre Dame - even just its Olympic sports - into the Big 12, could cause a frenzy of interest from football powers in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Orangebloods.com reported last month that Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Miami and Georgia Tech all had efforts made on their behalf to gauge the interest of the Big 12 in expanding. The Big 12 indicated at its conference meetings in Kansas City in late May that it was happy at 10.

And while that was the sentiment then, a potential move by Notre Dame to affiliate with the Big 12, could cause more discussion and possibly a rethinking of the league's current position about bringing in new members.

Stay tuned.

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1377426

And he spikes the ball in the EndZone.

[CPR]

Yea, that's what's been floating around the Big East/Conference Realignment boards for the past couple of days. I don't blame Notre Dame for leaving and the same goes for Louisville if they get the golden ticket, since the BE sucks with the new teams coming in. I just can't see Texas agreeing to let Notre Dame in as a partial member.