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Maroon Baboon
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Maroon Baboon

Make Conferences Round Robin Again #MCRRA 🧢

Get the hats made up. In all seriousness. I'd like to see a 12-team conference with 11 conference games, 1 OOC game. And no lame neutral site conference championship game. Either have an outright champion (no CG game at all), or give the first place team a home game in the CG game. I doubt that this is what Flugaur is getting at, but it should be. Build rivalries and competition. Get rid of cupcakes. This should be the case for all conferences, not just the ACC. In fact, if every "conference" would do this, you could do less teams and more OOC games if you'd like. But the key is, expand the CFP and get rid of conference title games. Instead of byes, give champions a home game. 16 teams would be a good number. ** Edited by Maroon Baboon at 11/15/2024, 11:54:53 PM
Posted: 11/15/2024 at 11:50 PM ET
(In response to this post by Millpoint)

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Interesting speculation about ACC dissolution by Greg Flugaur last night
Millpoint • 11/12/24 09:17 AM ET
Was it "chalk"?
mrcaniac • 11/14/24 07:13 PM ET
I wonder what FSU's TV ratings are right about now?
Truthahn • 11/19/24 12:08 PM ET
Just saw that their game vs Charleston Southern is on ACCNX
mrcaniac • 11/19/24 02:09 PM ET
I think an adult from the Big Ten called him and told him
Maroon Baboon • 11/15/24 11:39 PM ET
Could this be a negotiating ploy for a contract bump?
Flanker • 11/13/24 05:33 PM ET
Something tells me this guy does not have his finger on the dissolution
Sunsetunderground • 11/13/24 03:24 PM ET
There's a level lower than Finebaum???**
ancient alien 2018 • 11/16/24 09:06 PM ET
Why listen to the Wayne's World of college football?**
MrBayAreaHokie • 11/13/24 12:50 PM ET
Conferences are totally FUBAR right now. The powers that be didn't think
Maroon Baboon • 11/13/24 11:17 AM ET
Dissolve the ACC & do what, form a 10 team conference? **
ombandit • 11/13/24 07:55 AM ET
yes with Mag7 plus Duke and two more**
Millpoint • 11/13/24 11:18 AM ET
Hmm, there are 10 large publics in the ACC.
Truthahn • 11/19/24 12:39 PM ET
Make Conferences Round Robin Again #MCRRA 🧢 ◄
Maroon Baboon • 11/15/24 11:50 PM ET
So the Pac-12 model**
tarheelblue • 11/15/24 02:03 PM ET
I come here maybe 1x a month. Amazing that this clown is always a pg1 topic**
marcbvtgm • 11/12/24 07:11 PM ET
Can we please reserve the “clown” moniker for Johnny Manzell? **
ombandit • 11/13/24 07:58 AM ET
whatever happened to something big is going down in 9 weeks
daveinop • 11/12/24 06:54 PM ET
Come on mannn, that’s so 9 weeks ago! 🤣 Got to have new material.**
Stech • 11/13/24 09:53 AM ET
lol; i had to dig for it. Josh Pate back in June or July**
daveinop • 11/13/24 01:12 PM ET
I think the schools need to stop trying to copy the P2. It's not happening
HokieAl • 11/12/24 04:25 PM ET
And almost forgot, mega conf would allow ND to stay independent
HokieAl • 11/12/24 05:24 PM ET
This makes the tenth thing guaranteed to force ND into a conference
TerryD • 11/12/24 04:13 PM ET
He didn't guarantee it would force ND into a conference
Millpoint • 11/12/24 04:22 PM ET
ND will shutter their program before they join a conference for football.
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/12/24 04:26 PM ET
Their other sports will play in the Patriot League before joining FB conf**
VaTechHokiesACC • 11/13/24 02:15 AM ET
or the Big East conference, which I believe is 100% their plan-
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/13/24 10:35 AM ET
Swarbrick said this was never an option.
Sunsetunderground • 11/13/24 03:28 PM ET
If Swarbrick gave the quote, it was given well before the P2 paradigm shift
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/13/24 03:44 PM ET
He said it years later after all of this was settled.**
Sunsetunderground • 11/13/24 05:07 PM ET
I couldn't find Swarbrick quoted saying anything like that anywhere.
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/14/24 09:58 AM ET
It would be funny if a ND+BE deal required ND to play UConn every year.**
Truthahn • 11/13/24 01:59 PM ET
I don't think ND would mind that at all. It beats paying to lose to NIU.**
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/13/24 03:29 PM ET
Come to think of it, why didn't they go with the Big East?
Truthahn • 11/18/24 12:30 PM ET
Because they didn't know the Big East was going to be the Big East.
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/18/24 03:22 PM ET
According to 33laszlo99, he also said ESPN is renewing the ACC Feb contract
Stech • 11/12/24 01:04 PM ET
One of these days...........
2hhoop3 • 11/13/24 01:26 AM ET
That’s right, he’s predicting 2 opposite things with a new contract in Feb
Stech • 11/13/24 09:51 AM ET
I predict you will still......
2hhoop3 • 11/13/24 10:01 AM ET
🤣**
Stech • 11/13/24 12:25 PM ET
No conflict there. ESPN has unilateral control of the existing contract.
33laszlo99 • 11/12/24 01:33 PM ET
So he’s saying they will renew the contract and then it will be killed?**
Stech • 11/12/24 09:22 PM ET
That's what I took it to mean. I have thought all along that ESPN would
33laszlo99 • 11/13/24 12:33 AM ET
Can they renew, and then split the conference in two?
Truthahn • 11/13/24 02:06 PM ET
Seems like he’s predicting 2 different things so one will be right. Then he
Stech • 11/13/24 09:41 AM ET
The ACC ultimately needs to be reconstituted to compete long-term
VT ChemE 1986 • 11/12/24 12:14 PM ET
Through 2036 is long term**
PadrosWindup • 11/12/24 08:30 PM ET
There's no way SMU makes this list. They have no business being in the ACC.
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/12/24 04:15 PM ET
well said**
Millpoint • 11/12/24 04:23 PM ET
While I like your 10 very much, I wonder if that is enough time zones for
Femoyer Hokie • 11/12/24 12:38 PM ET
Just want to understand. You are saying, that to save the ACC
Big12 guy • 11/12/24 12:32 PM ET
You can look at it as "dissolving the ACC," or you could look at it like an
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/12/24 04:21 PM ET
Virginia Tech is also a mouth to feed. **
VPI 1924 • 11/12/24 05:58 PM ET
If you think that's the case, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/13/24 11:02 AM ET
Given that every year someone has to finish in the cellar (unless everyone
VTHokie2000 • 11/12/24 04:42 PM ET
I'm not sure how to help certain folks on here grasp a firm understanding-
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/13/24 11:06 AM ET
Nebraska is an example where its brand value may have taken a hit over the
VTHokie2000 • 11/13/24 06:56 PM ET
Even still, take a look at what Nebraska gets paid for their radio rights-
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/14/24 09:56 AM ET
Except I am not comparing Nebraska to VT. What I am comparing Nebraska to
VTHokie2000 • 11/14/24 03:59 PM ET
I'm not sure we're on the same page here-
Baltimore_Hokie • 11/15/24 09:46 AM ET
Yes, I understand you suggested the initial cull would be only the less
VTHokie2000 • 11/15/24 04:03 PM ET
Yes, The ACC must disband. No they will not match the wealth of the P2.
33laszlo99 • 11/12/24 01:03 PM ET
As I said several months ago, I believe the ultimate goal is the merge
VT ChemE 1986 • 11/12/24 12:55 PM ET
The only thing that makes sense to me is a vote to dissolve the conference.
Truthahn • 11/12/24 12:13 PM ET
Not sure it would be legal for ten members to plan in advance to kill the
33laszlo99 • 11/12/24 01:43 PM ET
You’d only do that if all 10 have a P2 landing place. However, he’s also
Stech • 11/12/24 01:09 PM ET
He said ten schools needed to dissolve the conference
Millpoint • 11/12/24 12:31 PM ET
Include SMU. Those folks don't play. Duke and GT would be too.**
VT ChemE 1986 • 11/12/24 11:23 AM ET
Duke is dead weight for football. Might as well be Kansas **
Sunsetunderground • 11/12/24 01:05 PM ET
That can be arranged!**
VT ChemE 1986 • 11/12/24 01:07 PM ET
Seems to me that it's not the B12 podcasters stirring the pot this time. **
Big12 guy • 11/12/24 11:16 AM ET