PSU and MD will be in the ACC in 7 years
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PSU fans are the type of guys who won't stop talking to you when you are talking to a new girl. They think you value what they are saying. It's pathetic and sad.
Yeah but in this case, he's not wrong. PSU isn't going to suddenly drive more tax dollars to Harrisburg playing in the ACC.
To further the comparison, in this case, he's trying to help you take off the beer goggles.
PS isn’t leaving the Big 10, so that should put an end to the speculation.
I will say that it would be a lot more conducive to their alums to play in the ACC, and it would help their recruiting in the Southeast. They would also re-establish true rivalries from the 70’s and 80’s. They apparently don’t have any true rivalries in the Big 10 because Pitt is their most popular topic.
If you would have told me in 1990 that Pitt would be in the ACC, I wouldn't have believed you. TV changed everything. Paterno wanted an eastern conference on his terms. Nobody in the east was buying what he was selling. To be completely honest, everyone involved acted like a bunch of selfish bums. Joe took himself and his arrogance to the B1G and most of the eastern schools had to scramble to find homes because everyone lacked the vision and patience to lock up the biggest combined media market in CFB. Nobody from that group has been consistently relevant since.
Tv ratings are down over the last 22 years. Sports cable channels have no where near the money they used to have. If a conference is banking on larger tv contracts.....they are crazy.
What other division has three patsies in it like Rutgers, Indiana and Maryland?
And no fair pointing out that the other division in your conference has Illinois, Minnesota and Purdue.
Hey, thanks for the info but that had absolutely nothing to do with 1990. And you should probably let FOX and ESPN know they're insanely throwing money at the ACCN.
Yeah, state legislatures are going to vote for this fantasy and get slaughtered in their next election.
THAT is going to happen ...
for the record, i cant imagine this every happening but it would be awesome if it did. outside of notre dame and WVU joining, this would probably be my second wish.
Then you must be disgusted by Sandusky and the subsequent cover up by Paterno and the other Penn St. administrators. We have reached common ground.
Any child abuse is awful. Getting joy out of it because there was an alleged cover up is not something we share.
Maybe just maybe people just want to know that other people are not trying to sweep it under the rug! Alleged? Are you sane?
The PSU scandal has transcended into a bigger indictment of the sleaze of college sports. PSU clearly needed to receive an NCAA Death Penalty. The football program was proven guilty of lack of institutional control (more accurately, there was SIGNIFICANT control, but it was with the intent to coverup and continue to enable heinous assaults). And the administration was fully complicit in it, again, irrefutably proven. 5 years minimum without football was called for, not just to attempt to cure the cultural ill at PSU, but to deter other schools from covering up similarly when (sadly) other such crimes occur. But the NCAA buckled and did nothing.
So now, there really is no discipline or governance at ALL in college sports, for other awful institutional offenses... the Baylor and North Carolina scandals come immediately to mind. Both deserved harsh disciplinary actions as well. Again, not just aimed to cure a sick sports- centric culture at those schools, but to deter others.
Nothing happened there either though. So the filth and swill have completely triumphed. And it's sad, because of the hypocrisy of what the NCAA and colleges pitch in their phony PR, but just because the deterrence WOULD work... other schools would definitely tighten their ships if only the machine would have the balls and guts to enforce a couple high profile examples like this. In the scheme of things, the huge widespread business that college football and basketball encompasses, nobody would much miss PSU football or UNC sports for a few years. Plenty of others to show and follow. But even that piddling little drop in the bucket was out of the question for the NCAA and its member schools (including Pitt). How nauseating.
This is about the time some cultist ahole makes up his 17th phony handle of the day and posts 52-6 or 48-14 or such. Or someone cynically notes, well, you guys hate PSU so you try to keep this going. Let's make this clear: the scandal is past. They won. Nothing happened to them. Hell, they ended up better off, it gave them the impetus needed to replace Paterno with a modern coach, and were able to cast the blame on a third party (namely, the "witch hunt"). If this scandal hadn't happened, PSU fans might have needed to manufacture something like it to finally jettison Paterno.
And Pitt did not nor does benefit one iota for Penn State having misfortune. Pitt is totally self sufficient in its own mismanagement and crapulence. PSU not having football for X years would not benefit us in the least. We'd still be screwing up as much as ever.
But it should have happened.
Incredibly accurate write up. A lot of the cult will call you crazy and its a shame. They dont even realize how lucky they are to even have a program, it should have been abolished.
And yet the American Athletic Conference is going to get $8 million per year per school.
Peanuts. $8 million will get you the basic white mail population in your region. This is hardly an investment. It is called treading water.
According to Google, the 2016 Pennsylvania GDP was approximately $ 725 billion. The commonwealth takes about 5% of that, the federal government takes about 20% and spends 25% of GDP, and local government takes about 2-3%.
Not going to happen, big money won’t let it too many interests. Think UCF and WVU or distant shot UConn.
YouCon would be a REAL distant shot. I (as well as others) predict they'll drop out of FBS within a few years.
