Cincinnati Still Trying to Beg Way Into ACC, This Time With $70 Million in Stadium Renovations
The Big East received a pitifully low television rights offer. Its brightest schools begging other conferences to bail them out without shame could be a major reason why. Cincinnati is spending $70 million renovating its football stadium to add swanky seating and luxury suites. The school’s president sent a DVD with their “exciting plans” to the president of every school in the ACC.
“Located in the heart of our campus, Nippert shines as one of the nation’s oldest college football venues,” UC President Santa Ono wrote. “I invite you to watch the enclosed DVD to learn more about our exciting plans.”
Cincinnati already tried to enlist alum Urban Meyer to campaign on the school’s behalf. If the next phase of Big Ten expansion is not settled by the summer, ACC presidents should brace themselves for a bombardment of brief, heavy breathing phone calls in the middle of the night.
Waiting for a school to dump $70 million into research to get into the AAU and entice the Big Ten.
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February 19th, 2013 at 3:31 PM
ACC presidents should brace themselves for a bombardment of brief, heavy breathing phone calls in the middle of the night.
How did TBL get those numbers?
/cold call’d
February 19th, 2013 at 3:35 PM
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February 19th, 2013 at 3:36 PM
This is getting re-goddam-diculous. I know I call him Pope Urban, but the idea that he could sway the president and ADs of the ACC to take another school is absurd.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:37 PM
what? No Blu Ray!?!?!?!
February 19th, 2013 at 3:37 PM
When the SEC, B1G, and Big 12 all poach some teams from the ACC, UConn and Cincy will get added.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:38 PM
no one likes cincinnati
February 19th, 2013 at 3:39 PM
no one likes cincinnati
I love their snowball-throwing mascot.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:40 PM
While this doesn’t fit perfectly, since Hopkins was one of the founding members of the AAU, but Hop might be going to the Big Ten as an associate member.
http://college-football.si.com/2013/01/31/slow-news-thursday-leaders-legends-and-laxers/
/Univ. of Mich. v. Hopkins this Saturday.
//site needs more lacrosse coverage.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:41 PM
At least they can beg the ACC and the Big XII. Uconn is just screwed.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
site needs more lacrosse coverage.
My kid plays college lacrosse but I still don’t agree with this statement.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Truth
February 19th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
well if urban couldnt do it, it’s probably a lost cause.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:43 PM
This is 2013 we do 3-D now.
/puts glasses on
//gets punched in the face
February 19th, 2013 at 3:43 PM
well if urban couldnt do it
is it a matter of can or will?
February 19th, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Waiting for a school to dump $70 million into research to get into the AAU and entice the Big Ten.
C’mon Nebraska, pull your weight.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Both. Pretty sure he rejected Cincinnati’s request, but it was a pretty dumb request.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:48 PM
Even if he could, he’d only make it thru the Virginia and North Carolina schools and then quit.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Don’t worry, there are lots of rapes committed each day in this country, I’m sure one will get mentioned here sooner or later.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:50 PM
I spent a week at a conference there and I was actually pleasantly surprised, not great but not terrible. At least 50% of downtown wasn’t an abandoned wasteland like Cleveland.
Downside was that people looked like fat Ohesians bred with toothless Kentuckians.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Are you sure you weren’t in Columbus?
February 19th, 2013 at 3:51 PM
It’s time for UConn to drop football and join the Catholic 7 basketball conference.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:51 PM
hoke would eat a hoagie and refuse to adopt the spread punt formation. because he’s an idiot, you see?
that’s just so STUPID on so many different levels. michigan man!
February 19th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
Akron Football and that Bowden son are making a moderately priced video that will be sent to ACC schools via a hyperlink’d youtube video on their Facebook page. The video will be terrible.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
I actually quite enjoyed my trip to Columbus this weekend but it is jarring how far behind people there are on fashion. Lots of high jeans with bloused dress shirts tucked in, very mid nineties Seinfeldish.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
not sure why i decided to start the osu/mich pissing contest…so truce?
February 19th, 2013 at 3:54 PM
Dude, it’s much too early to start a pissing contest, and even if it wasn’t I’m certainly not going to even attempt to match wits over punt formations.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:56 PM
//Cancels weekend shopping trip to Cheers Outlet Store.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:57 PM
i know, i know…but i still just can’t get over how dumb that is. you have this formation that seriosuly every team runs because a) it’s almost impossible to block a punt and b) is so much better at putting players in the right lanes it makes no sense whatsoever to abandon it.
February 19th, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Awesome.
Columbus isn’t bad if you ignore the OSU worship. I rip Ohio every chance I get, but I liked living in Columbus for the most part. Good roads, decent restaurants, downtown arena, not great women but the best you’re going to get in a 300 mile radius.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
it’s the huge gay population, isn’t it?
February 19th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
This explains so much.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
//Updates list
February 19th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Sure you weren’t in Alabama?
/puts on tapered leg Levis
//one leg at a time, of course
February 19th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
IIRC, Syracuse would have already been in the ACC for 10 years by now if it hadn’t been for the governor of Virginia.
Basically, Syracuse was going to leave and was a defendant in the original suit. The VA gov said Va Tech had to be included if the ACC took teams, so they switched Cuse out for Va Tech, and Syracuse jumped from one side of the courtroom to the other.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Thought we’d already explained this
February 19th, 2013 at 4:04 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/news/2003/05/15/acc_virginia_ap/
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1090116/
The second link is nice, because Va Tech is a prominent party in saying “the ACC can’t raid our league, everyone must stay”. They were gone within weeks.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
Also for whomever told me LC Pavilion has expensive drinks, eight bucks for a twenty ounce beer at a concert isn’t really that bad at all.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
I can imagine those calls:
“Pay the students, don’t pay the students? Pay the students, don’t pay the students?”
“Did you become the school President so you can finally oust Van Wilder?”
February 19th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
I thought gays don’t like fatties.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
Cues up PSU vs. OSU game
February 19th, 2013 at 4:06 PM
‘
/grumbles
//SSS
February 19th, 2013 at 4:07 PM
go fuck yourself, crapostraphe.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:07 PM
That was me, but in my defense I originally thought the concert was at Newport (where it’s been since I can remember) where the same beer is $4.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:08 PM
Not entirely related to the punt conversation, but Pitt under Walt Harris had this ridiculous swinging gate formation on extra points. Once got two or three procedural penalties in a row, missed a 30 yard extra point, and lost 14-12 against aTm.
aTm had the first halftime band I could actually hear in the stadium.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Ah that’s fair then. I mean that’s what I’m used to paying at bigger venues I guess.
Concert was phenomenal by the way.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
You should come back. Soul Asylum is playing the tiny bar connected to the LC this week.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
SSS? Then cue up the OSU vs. UAB tape.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
We drank at the A&R beforehand, very cool little venue. Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooots of drugs getting done by folk in those bathrooms.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:14 PM
UAB’s got elite athletes yo.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:17 PM
Sick burn
February 19th, 2013 at 4:27 PM
UNC
Duke
NC State
Virginia
Virginia Tech
FSU
Miami
Boston College
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech
Clemson
*Syracuse
*Pitt
*Louisville
*Notre Dame (except football)
So Cincy would give the ACC 16 schools. Half of which would be former Big East schools.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooots of drugs getting done by folk in those bathrooms.
just like the 80s/90s!
February 19th, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Soul Asylum is playing the tiny bar connected to the LC this week.
Saw them in Richardson, Texas a few years ago. They were on stage before Better Than Ezra. They were fucking terrible and BTE was making fun of them during their performance.