VT was on the SEC's radar in the late '90s when the SEC was exploring

Actually it was earlier metro -- Mercury 01/30/2022 12:50PM

I always assumed psu demanded too much for the big east. -- Truthahn 01/30/2022 8:56PM

Googled it. Syracuse and bc screwed the pooch, not the big east -- Truthahn 01/30/2022 9:51PM

Syracuse and BC voted to add Penn State to the Big East. -- HOO86 02/01/2022 3:09PM

Paterno wanted.. -- TerryD 02/01/2022 1:58PM

Yes paterno wanted an eastern conference that psu could control. -- Truthahn 02/06/2022 8:52PM

"If" Penn State would've joined the BEFC, Tech would've likely... -- Old Line Hokie 01/31/2022 6:42PM

I don’t think this was ever offered to psu -- Truthahn 02/06/2022 8:49PM

The Big East football conference was infinitely more fun than the ACC. ** -- reestuart 01/29/2022 11:27AM

Because we didn't use the stupid zipper model & rivalries were built up by -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:14PM

I suspect the only reason people have a problem with the zipper model -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:33PM

The reason I don't like it is because we don't play our geograhically close -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:54PM

Yes, it would be nice to see VT play L'ville and NC State more frequently -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 1:00PM

Since divisions are no longer required for a conference championship, -- PadrosWindup 01/30/2022 10:37AM

First pass at rivals attached -- PadrosWindup 01/30/2022 11:08AM

NOPE. Here is the list. UL gets FSU, Pitt and Syr. VT gets UVa, Mia and GT -- Maroon Baboon 01/30/2022 12:50PM

What logic did you use to help you designate certain "rivalries?" -- VTHokie2000 01/30/2022 11:59AM

My bad on the regulations -- PadrosWindup 01/30/2022 3:01PM

Yep. VT had legit rivalries in that league. Not the country club type -- reestuart 01/29/2022 12:22PM

Playing FSU in basketball always brings me back to... -- Old Line Hokie 01/30/2022 11:05AM

The Metro was great. That was prime Cassell ** -- reestuart 01/30/2022 12:37PM

Do you remember Tech's #1 Fan? -- Old Line Hokie 01/30/2022 1:02PM

Billy! Saw him hitchhiking once and gave him a ride from Christiansburg ** -- HOKIESHARK 01/31/2022 08:30AM

I remember in bowl season when we were in the Big East, I would root for -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:51PM

Rooted against them all because I hate(d) them. So much better than ACC FB -- Vienna_Hokie 02/01/2022 8:00PM

Yep. Same here. I'm fairly indifferent toward the ACC. I don't really -- reestuart 01/29/2022 12:57PM

It isn't so much that I loved the schools in the BE and hate the ones in -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 2:25PM

The BE b-ball tourney is still a bucket list item for me. ** -- reestuart 01/29/2022 2:14PM

Round robin play. There's no substitute for it. -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:18PM

The key date was 1994 - That was when there were real negotiations to -- PadrosWindup 01/29/2022 09:47AM

Key date was 1990 IMO. That was when PSU joined Big 10. Every other -- HboroughHokie 01/29/2022 12:16PM

1990 is when Big East football schools could have had their own league -- Victor Tango 01/29/2022 2:48PM

I'm not sure all those schools would have been allowed to join -- VTHokie2000 02/02/2022 6:54PM

Would have been a top football conference if it had come to pass. Too many -- HboroughHokie 01/29/2022 3:03PM

In the late 1980s when Tiffany released "Could've Been"... -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 11:53AM

When did SEC(if so) talk behind scene to VT? -- MrFantastic! 01/29/2022 10:20AM

That's just your opinion that was NOT our university's goal -- Mercury 02/01/2022 11:03AM

True ** -- MrFantastic! 02/01/2022 3:51PM

Maybe 2011 -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 10:44AM

VT was on the SEC's radar in the late '90s when the SEC was exploring -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:17AM

I heard that ** -- MrFantastic! 01/29/2022 11:47AM

It is too bad JW didn't try to pursue things further with the SEC -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:52AM

I would much rather solicited the SEC for membership than to have -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:11PM

Me too which is another reason why I wish JW would have pursued something -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:25PM

Tech and WVU were tightly partnered until 1994 -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 12:45PM

Yep. We were all going to stick together - until we werent. But VT did -- HboroughHokie 01/29/2022 1:27PM

Tech and W ** -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 12:42PM

And by the time VT got into the ACC, it was a broken prize. -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:34PM

Even though VT was winning 10 games and conference championships -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:44PM

Yes. I would have wanted WVU included in the above scenario. ** -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:47PM

If the ACC had added WVU, then it may not have made the mistake -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:53PM

I think Miami and FSU should have been same divisions -- MrFantastic! 01/30/2022 09:30AM

The appeal of a Miami-FSU matchup in the ACC championship game was big -- Hokie Fiji 01/30/2022 12:22PM

Hard to believe that there have been 16 ACCCGs and FSU and Miami have never -- Maroon Baboon 01/30/2022 9:03PM

The rest of the ACC members and their coaches would disagree with -- VTHokie2000 01/30/2022 12:03PM

First time I've heard that. But it's certainly interesting -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 12:03PM

If you think about it, the 2003 information conversations may have -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:20PM

Directionally correct, Finebaum told VT to call the SEC in 2011 & 2021. -- Stech 01/29/2022 10:58AM

Where will VT be in ten years? Your guess my man. ** -- MrFantastic! 02/07/2022 07:35AM

IMHO changes happen before 2025-26 or they won't happen until 2035-36. -- Stech 02/07/2022 12:37PM

Interesting observation. Where would FSU and/or Clemson go? -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 11:11AM

Enough schools have to leave the ACC in order for the current GOR -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:26AM

Good points, I will only add, I don't think the SEC stops at taking 2. ** -- Stech 01/29/2022 11:36AM

I agree the SEC probably won't stop at 2. I'm just unsure where -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:46AM

They want a Virginia school & a North Carolina school, maybe 2. -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:02PM

That makes sense. However, the SEC may not get that in VA and NC -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:12PM

The SEC, is a lot stronger now academically! Tx, Tx A&M, Fla, Vandy. UGA, -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:46PM

Oh I know the SEC is a lot stronger academically. I'm just not sure -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:26PM

They would need to come in a group, Jay Bilas proposed a merger of SEC/ACC, -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:31PM

Jay Bilas is just worried Duke BB will get left out of a big time -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 1:19PM

I do think multiple schools would be open to joining the SEC. -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:35PM

If all the ACC schoolsI talked about left, GT would not want to be on an -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:43PM

I'm not sure if the SEC would agree to add more ACC sports or not. -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:47PM

I am not sure either, but my guess is that if UNC, UVA come, they would -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:52PM

Well the Big Ten definitely has all the ACC sports. Plus, it would give -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 1:03PM

NC culturally is more soutthern than Va schools & th SEC schools are closer -- Stech 01/30/2022 08:17AM

It will definitely be interesting to see how everything plays out. -- VTHokie2000 01/30/2022 12:17PM

I think this comes down 2 ESPN wanting to pay for ratings, in football Wake -- Stech 01/30/2022 12:44PM

Oh I agree that ESPN wants to pay for ratings and that Wake, Duke -- VTHokie2000 01/30/2022 12:49PM

They both want to go to the SEC, the question is probably when, unless ND -- Stech 01/29/2022 11:20AM

Depending on how long the court cases take, Clemson and FSU may not -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:32AM

Yeah, the courts are critical. Latest decisions have opened things up & not -- Stech 01/29/2022 11:39AM

And no school or conference are brave enough to be the first one to test it ** -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:48AM

Not yet, but if the SEC does want FSU & Clemson, that's a game changer.** -- Stech 01/29/2022 12:34PM

Tranghese didn’t have enough sense to pull off something like that. ** -- RJHokie 01/29/2022 09:50AM

Was in a no win situation, th Conf was built on basketball, sound familiar? ** -- Stech 01/29/2022 11:03AM

Too many agendas in the Big East for that to happen ** -- VaTechHokiesACC 01/29/2022 02:30AM

A better question is What if the Big East would have let Penn State in? -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 12:37AM

We never would have been in the BE at all -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 10:53AM

You don't think the Metro would have decided to form a football conference? -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 11:40AM

Nope. Alluded to reasons in another post -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 12:00PM

WVU was a member of the Atlantic 10 at the time, so I can understand -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:09PM

You may be right. I guess we'll never know. But I think failing to go big -- Maroon Baboon 01/29/2022 11:09AM

Individual schools' sense of regional identity seems to have been key -- Hokie Fiji 01/29/2022 11:24AM

Like I kind of noted in another post, Raycom and even the Metro -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 1:06PM

Definitely wouldn't have gotten in when we did, maybe after Temple booted. ** -- Stech 01/29/2022 11:05AM

That would make a good Quantum Leap episode. ;) ** -- Old Line Hokie 01/28/2022 11:02PM

It never would have happened because the Big East was basically -- VTHokie2000 01/28/2022 10:46PM

The basketball schools ran the show, and Mickey T was their stooge -- EDGEMAN 01/28/2022 11:08PM

It could be argued that UConn and Syracuse did consider themselves -- VTHokie2000 01/28/2022 11:18PM

The UConn football stadium isn’t exactly in the middle of nowhere, -- RJHokie 01/28/2022 10:51PM

It kinda looks like it could be in the middle of nowhere to me -- VTHokie2000 01/28/2022 10:57PM

What you don’t see in the picture is the surrounding neighborhoods -- RJHokie 01/29/2022 09:07AM

A stadium can be close to an interstate and still be in the middle -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 10:18AM

I’ve been to Mountain View HS. -- RJHokie 01/29/2022 10:20AM

Well Rentschler's location may be enough to prevent UConn from ever -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 10:45AM

UConn was never football centric anyway. -- RJHokie 01/29/2022 11:57AM

One could say that UConn will "never" be considered a worthwhile addition -- FLKEYSHOKIE 01/30/2022 4:19PM

True. -- RJHokie 01/30/2022 4:25PM

The decision to demolish their on campus stadium so they could build -- VTHokie2000 02/01/2022 6:30PM

Yep. That pretty much sealed their football fate. ** -- RJHokie 02/01/2022 6:33PM

Even if those schools had remained in the AAC (assuming the divorce would -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 12:00PM

VT was on the SEC's radar in the late '90s when the SEC was exploring

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