TerryD
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RE: Semi OT-Ohio State pres Gee caught popping off about UL, ND & others
(05-31-2013 04:39 PM)omniorange Wrote: (05-31-2013 04:19 PM)westmc9th Wrote: He also poked fun at the ACC for considering, UCONN, CINCY, and Ville? Wow, he also mentioned how we were in a corner, sounds like the B1G was looking to destroy the ACC at the geographic heart of the conference. If we needed a new brand in MD we would have added Navy who is a national brand.
Big East fans, like myself, always thought it would come down to the Big East or the ACC to rule the northeast. At least until the ACC Armageddon Scenario came upon the scene.
The Big Ten talks a lot about being the midwestern conference, but it's becoming apparent they want to be top dog in the northeast and mid-atlantic as well.
Gee talked about a "T" strategy basically cutting the ACC in half by taking Maryland, Rutgers, UNC, Duke, and Virginia.
I hope Swofford truly realizes the ACC is in a real fight now, for both identity and survival.
Cheers,
Neil
(05-31-2013 10:29 PM)PhiladelphiaVT Wrote: (05-31-2013 04:39 PM)omniorange Wrote: (05-31-2013 04:19 PM)westmc9th Wrote: He also poked fun at the ACC for considering, UCONN, CINCY, and Ville? Wow, he also mentioned how we were in a corner, sounds like the B1G was looking to destroy the ACC at the geographic heart of the conference. If we needed a new brand in MD we would have added Navy who is a national brand.
Big East fans, like myself, always thought it would come down to the Big East or the ACC to rule the northeast. At least until the ACC Armageddon Scenario came upon the scene.
The Big Ten talks a lot about being the midwestern conference, but it's becoming apparent they want to be top dog in the northeast and mid-atlantic as well.
Gee talked about a "T" strategy basically cutting the ACC in half by taking Maryland, Rutgers, UNC, Duke, and Virginia.
I hope Swofford truly realizes the ACC is in a real fight now, for both identity and survival.
Cheers,
Neil
Back in 2003 when the first ACC raid on the Big East took place, I recall Swofford saying something to the effect that major changes were coming to the world of college sports and that the ACC had to expand if it wished to survive as a major conference. I didn't see the truth in his words then, but I do now. The ACC had to become predatory lest it become prey, and the words of the arrogant Mr. Gee expose clearly B1G plans to feast on the ACC's carcass.
The fact that UNC, Duke and UVa held firm for the ACC must have come as a terrible shock to Gee. That plus the loss of ND to the ACC was apparently enough to push the old man over the edge. His rant against Louisville and ND was really a slap aimed at one target above all---the ACC. Not every school wishes to become a member of the high and mighty B1G--what a bitter pill to swallow!
Absolutely, and I love it.
Now can you see a portion of the reason(s) that I have always disliked anything and everything about the Big Ten Conference?
It is hard wired in me. I grew up on the stories of the bigots in the Big Ten. The Big Ten was always the enemy to me since about age six.
Fritz Crisler, Fielding Yost, Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes, Joe Paterno, Lloyd Carr, etc... have always been in my Pantheon Of Evil.
I see not much different between Fielding Yost in 1913 and Gordon Gee in 2013 (better PR and PC, normally).
The Big Ten is full of bad stuff to me and always has been.
http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/09...-michigan/
To me, this tape is a glimpse under the tent flap of the way the Big Ten has always thought and operated. It is not a good thing.
This is a rare, unintended glimpse into their true thoughts and feelings. It was an inadvertent disclosure.
I truly enjoy the angst, bitterness and anger generated by the fact that there sits ND, proudly flying another flag right smack dab in the middle of Big Ten country, an "island fortress" stubbornly refusing to surrender.
Gee is upset that ND's priests got the best of him in negotiations? He is upset that the ACC stabilized and the big dream of a "T", the 16-20 school Big Ten superconference didn't expand down the Atlantic coast?
Suck on it, Gordo.
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2013 10:17 AM by TerryD.)
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