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Shouldn't this read "We don't cheat ANYMORE" :D

That's exactly why it's going to be hard for teams to break away. Do you think any non BCS schools will leave the NCAA? Hell no. Do you think teams like Duke, UNC or Syracuse who rake in cash from the NCAAT and it's related merchandise on equal footing with football will leave for this football league? Not gonna happen.

Noooooooooooooo that's not neccesary :P

Pft you don't ban them out of fear but out of contempt, duh! :P

The NCAA has their nuts in a vice quite frankly. They can leave the NCAA, but then they forfeit participation in the NCAAT, College World Series, Frozen Four, etc... while they may not be as big of money makers as football the student body and alumni would be in open revolt if they lost all of that.

The BCS is doomed anyway. You're gravely mistaken if you don't think the NCAA is going to take a slice out of that pie and make an official championship to start getting their cut which is my ultimate bet on why this conference realignment is going to end up being so disastrous in the long run.

The NCAA has precedent for this already. They made the NCAAT to compete with the NIT. THen when some BCS schools decided to go to the NIT instead as it was more profitable the NCAA simply made NCAAT participation mandatory and the NIT got relegated to 2nd tier. The NCAAT makes more money then the BCS Bowls or the Super Bowl for that matter, but universities don't see nearly as much money from it as bowl games because the NCAA takes the lion's share.

Not really Crimson, miss being an interweb big shot on an old online text based game?

RD is still around? Man what a bunch of queers.

No way in hell the ACC/Big East/SEC will allow the PAC16 to get two bids.

I did not, Jeff banned me for a while I just got back in again ;P

It's not a matter of displeasure, it's a matter of this being really stupid. It's driven by the Big10 and Pac10 TV networks. I make the following predictions:

The Big 10 and/or Pac 10 network will fail within 10 years.

Conferences that go above 12 teams will see a net punishment in NCAA Tourney bids ala the Big East. (The Big East and Conference USA generally got more bids seperately then the combined 16 team conference which has never gotten more then 8).

This will blow up in at least one conference's face because the conferences themselves will become way too unwieldly and teams travel and accomodation expenses are going to skyrocket on average. Ratings for individual games and bowls have consistantly declined, so the TV money factory is not going to last long term.

Oh God she's here!? DON'T LET HER EAT ME!

Fortunately none of the unpleasant names like Fatty Patty have shown up. She must have quit when her status as the fattest most pathetic moderator was removed and the game moved here.

No psychotic Mickster with his fake Buddhist BS either.

I very vaguely remember you. Assuming you're the same Mr. Cobalt you were just starting out with your career in villainy.

Nah you never killed me. In fact it used to annoy Ronnie, Peanut and LC that they had no method of retaliation against me :D

wtf lol I have not ever claimed to be any sort of hacker.

I did enjoy yanking TIE around some though when I took your tag and got a bunch of people to join up and started claiming to be the real TIE in FA :P

Don't put Mr Cobalt on the safe list just on principle

This is going to be a really really stupid conference realignment.

haha just PM me here then now that the message board has all these spiffy features

You can hit me up on MSN:

w00t w00t, lots of old faces appearing :D If anyone is willing to give me a simple strat I can step by step follow I've had the urge to play again.

Nope! I've always lived in America

Not anymore, now I'm just TheORKINewMember :(

*Must be people that I don't hate.

I really should play now that the game isn't moderated by a bunch of retards.