If ACC teams are indeed poachable though, go after Louisville. That gets you closer to Best Basketball Conference as well.
100% agreed that that the gods will not save us. My little crusade here is just to raise awareness about how garbage Kansas is and to make sure they not get a free pass if/when they end up in our conference just bc Kansas is so far beyond B1G fans’ collective radar. Pitino topped my hated coaches list for similar reasons.
I can prob stop now.
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Whoa! Speaking of allegations!
This is what I mean, everyone is dirty. Why are we trying to pretend that they’re not. (Not directed at you. This suggestion just illustrates my point.)
I agree. Louisville would be a great addition. Geographically and athletically.
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There’s no evidence of any such pretending in this thread.
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Something I really feel strongly about here in this context as well as others in public life is not lumping all bad behavior in one corruption/scandal/cheating bin. There are types and approaches and differences in scale, and I think it’s important to be sensitive to them. Not going to get on a soap box about it, and I appreciate your point, but that’s just where I was coming from. There’s dirty and then there’s DIRTY. There’s NCAA rules they break to win games and there are laws they break for other or similar purposes. It all goes on a spectrum from less severe to a whole lot more.
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I reread your posts and, you’re right. I should not have said you were pretending that the B1G was guiltless.
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Football will always be the driver for conference re-alignment. KU does not move the needle in terms of conference addition (Then again, they added Maryland and Rutgers). If it’s about football with AAU research program ties and TV market, Washington, GT, Oregon, and USC makes a lot of sense for B1G.
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GT was certainly seen as a fit in the past
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From what I’ve heard, GT requires some serious math classes of all their students, athletes included. If they decided to go for broke in sports, they’d be a really fun bet.
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Saw this making the rounds last night and this morning. I think it’s from a Greenroom interview that Ant Wright did with Dickinson. The Illinois games should be interesting this year!
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I guess Greenroom is a new thing. Anyone know if there’s a recording?
It’s LockerRoom but was acquired by Spotify and rebranded. No recordings by default and Ant has not been recently releasing his stuff as podcasts much.
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Hoo boy…Michigan really needs to win that game at Assembly State Farm this season!
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JMO but I really wish he didn’t say this. oh well
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Hunter rocks. He’ll be ready; his teammates will be ready.
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I agree. I don’t want to make a huge deal out of it because I appreciate Dickinson being candid in a world of robotic athletes (especially in college). But teams can make bulletin board material out of the slightest of things. It doesn’t make sense to give them anything so blatant.
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Maybe this is a Guaransheed approach – talk big enough to make yourself play big enough.
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I don’t mind one bit what Hunter said! Illinois has been talking so much smack the last year that I’m glad he’s giving it right back to those fake banner fools 
Yeah, I’m with @bigboutros and @SteveM on this one. I think you can stoke the rivalry a bit while being above it. Don’t refer to them by name, talk about your own success, be generic, etc. I get that it makes for entertaining news and fires up both sides…but just so unnecessary - especially since they did kick our a$$ last year.
Example - absolutely zero good came of Mike Hart calling MSU “little brother”. Even if there was some truth to that analogy at the time, there was no point. We happen to be 4-9 against them since he said it too.
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Too much is made of “bulletin board material.” I’m not sure how words can play a big role in the outcome of games. Michigan is not a program that teams overlook in football or basketball. Teams are always going to get up for Michigan, especially MSU and this Illinois team. Michigan isn’t 4-9 against MSU because of Hart’s comments. They are 4-9 because they have generally stunk for the past decade+ and there was a period where MSU was a significantly better program. Likewise, if Illinois beats Michigan next year, it won’t be because of these comments. It will be for basketball reasons.
Bulletin board material is for the fans. It isn’t going to make college athletes play any better. The only time I would say it could have any bearing on an outcome is if your opponent may have taken you lightly and the comments refocused their attention. Michigan gets everyone’s best shot every time though.
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