{"id":437,"date":"2011-09-17T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2011-09-19T01:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T06:15:22","slug":"conferencepocalypse-ii-the-acc-big-east-subwar-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/conferencepocalypse-ii-the-acc-big-east-subwar-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepocalypse II: The ACC-Big East subwar begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big East: \u201cAre you frightened?\u201d<\/em>
\nBig 12: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/em>
\nBig East: \u201cNot nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Brendan Loy<\/a>, one of the few other people nerdy enough to mix “Lord of the Rings” and college sports<\/p>\n

ESPN says<\/a> – and now the AP does,<\/a> too – that not only did the Big East’s Pitt and Syracuse reach out to the ACC, they straight-up applied<\/em> – and more:<\/p>\n

In addition, amid a “fluid landscape” in conference alignment, the ACC presidents have unanimously approved to increase the buyout for schools to leave the conference from $10 million-$13 million to $20 million, the source said, making it a highly unlikely scenario that any ACC teams defect from the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the ESPN article: “Baylor and Iowa State have already reached out to the Big East as a backup in case the Big 12 falls apart.” This is, I think, the first report that Iowa State has done anything<\/em> in the past two months.<\/p>\n

Pitt and Syracuse make 14 for the ACC. Who’s next? The cannibalization is on. If the remnants of the Big 12 joined the Big East, would that be enough?<\/p>\n

(Radical, pie-in-the-sky pipe dream with absolutely no basis whatsoever: Notre Dame gives up, Jim Delaney gets his brass ring, and then he says “The Big Ten is, technically<\/a>, a nonprofit.* We can take a charity case. Hi, Iowa State.**”)<\/p>\n

*Stop laughing.<\/a>
\n**OK, resume laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big East: \u201cAre you frightened?\u201d Big 12: \u201cYes.\u201d Big East: \u201cNot nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you.\u201d \u2014 Brendan Loy, one of the few other people nerdy enough to mix “Lord of the Rings” and college sports ESPN … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}