Swofford: Tech committed to ACC
ACC commissioner John Swofford does not anticipate any member schools leaving the conference. That includes Georgia Tech.
On a teleconference with media members to discuss the addition of Louisville to the league, Swofford was asked about the possibility of schools leaving the ACC, as has been rumored.
“I do not envision that at all,” Swofford said. “In fact, just the opposite, based on the conversations among our Council of Presidents over the last 10 days.”
Swofford was asked specifically about conversations with Georgia Tech president G.P. “Bud” Peterson. The school has been the subject of rumors that it could be headed for the Big Ten.
Said Swofford, “The nature of our conversations has been emphatic in terms of their commitment to the ACC and Georgia Tech’s future.”
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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dry dirt road
November 28th, 2012
8:31 pm
Big 10 bust, what’s so big about CPJ’s anti-shotgun offense that refuses to use a tight end? Tech needs Small 10, not Big 10. Like I say, I think the players are on strike and want to hit the brary and get employed in a white collar job, and are trying to grasp every written letter and number available on the hill to do this. But when they don’t get flu shots that sets them back in their pursuit.
dry dirt road
November 28th, 2012
8:33 pm
Louisville can join but they sure aren’t on the Atlantic Coast.
dry dirt road
November 28th, 2012
8:39 pm
I tell ya, I’ve had it with the new Tech. When I went there it was entirely different, from 39 to 43 years ago, and was a valuable education. But now Tech is so disorganized that I’m glad I’m long gone from there. I don’t believe I’ll be interested in watching the ACC Championship game. It’ll be too rinky dink for me. Very feeble minded on Tech’s part.
GFJacket
November 28th, 2012
8:48 pm
I Jones, Tech’s football team has the highest SAT scores of any public university in America. That, combined with its limited academic offerings (no liberal arts programs), limits the pool of athletes it can target.
l jones
November 28th, 2012
8:51 pm
GFJacket, That’s nonsense.
dawgfan
November 28th, 2012
8:57 pm
Tech can’t even sell its allotment for the UGA game, the biggest game on your laugable schedule, but you dolts think Georgia Tech would be some big draw for the Big 10? LMAO. Unbelievable.
ACC Fan
November 28th, 2012
9:02 pm
On the subject of academic prowess, UGa has had 22 Rhode Scholars over the years, while Vanderbilt has had 26. In contrast, UNC has had 42.
l jones
November 28th, 2012
9:12 pm
ACC Fan, On the subject on academic prowess. Of course, UNC has about 30,000 students compared to Vanderbilt’s 13,000. Statistics can be manipulated, as I’m sure you know.
ACC Fan
November 28th, 2012
9:23 pm
Well I believe UNC has no more than 25k undergrads, and they cater primarily to HS grads fr the state of NC, to include manty Afro Americans that Vanderbilt would not admit. UNC accepts a much smaller percentage of out of state students than does Vanderbilt. UNC is truly a university of the people. Vanderbilt serves the elite from outside of Tenn. One would have as much trouble getting into UNC as they would getting into Vandy, especially if you consider out of state applicants trying to get into UNc – harder even than Duke, which is Vandy’s daddy.
Prometheus
November 28th, 2012
9:24 pm
I jones, did not sense ACC Fan manipulated stats. Seems like he simply stated a fact.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 28th, 2012
9:30 pm
On the subject of academic prowess, Tech has one Rhodes Scholar for this year. How many do those other schools have this year?
Prometheus
November 28th, 2012
9:37 pm
UNC has one for sure.
Prometheus
November 28th, 2012
9:37 pm
So does UGa
Supersize that order, mutt
November 28th, 2012
9:38 pm
Very unusual for a predominantly engineering school to have any at all, although MIT and Cal Tech have had quite a few
GT Fan
November 28th, 2012
9:39 pm
Wild Bill
November 28th, 2012
5:08 pm
Georgia Tech is a natural fit for the ACC……both are big time losers. High school teams, with high school crowds, playing in high school stadiums.
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You can’t make-up this kind of comedy.
Let’s see, Bill:
Tennessee plays “college football” in the nations biggest stadium.
Auburn plays “college football” in a stadium with an 85,000+ capacity
Oregon plays “college football” in a stadium (54,000) that is smaller than GT’s.
The only reason UT isn’t 0-8 in the SEC is b/c they got to play UK. AU…yeah, they’re good.
Oregon, on the other hand, how do they do it only playing in front of 54,000 fans?
Skeptic
November 28th, 2012
9:53 pm
JoeFan
November 28th, 2012
8:27 pm
GT wanted back into the SEC but UGA vetoed the move. FL also has veto privileges over FSU and USCe can do the same to any invitation that might go out to Clemson.
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Sorry, dude, but this is simply regurgitation of really old food. Unless you can cite a source, it’s Scheissen from EDSBS or something. It’s as dumb as saying that Ole Miss or MSU can be kicked out. (sound of lawyers salivating)
bill
November 28th, 2012
10:07 pm
My post was lost somehow..Curious….ACC had to have taken Louisville to appease FSU and Clemson. U Conn is better market( as Cincy would be).Swofford had to convince Presidents that Louisville would be better fit. Think FSU and Clemson would want another Northern team? Louisville has a poor academic rep ( see espn report), UConn doesn’t.
Swofford knows Big 12 will be calling FSU, Clemson and maybe Tech and Miami to survive. Doubt FSU and Clemson would get by veto from Florida and So Car to get in SEC, so Big 12 is logical poacher.Swofford has to do something to keep FSU and Clemson from getting itchy. If anyone thinks Big 12 won’t attempt to get FSU and Clemson at the very least is fooling themselves.
Does make you wonder where Tech is at this point in their thought processes about the BIG.
d1reality
November 28th, 2012
11:24 pm
“”Until Tech decides to play big boy football and stop cut blocking, the the Big Ten would not want them”"
Spoken like someone who just got 300+ yards rushing run up on them
fan
November 29th, 2012
12:10 am
The truth of the matter is Georgia Tech belongs in Division 3, or NAIA. IF Tech played Georgia Souhern they would lose by 25 points and App. State would stomp them as well. Camden Co. high school would give Tech fits.
allen beech
November 29th, 2012
12:55 am
UGA played a Cup Cake schedule. They got rolled by South Carolina and only beat Florida with 6 gift turnovers. They did not play either LSU, or Alabama. They replaced Alabama with Missouri
who is errible. GT had a bad week before playing UGA having to attend classes and half the team in the infermary with Flu,
GTville
November 29th, 2012
1:41 am
I think conference realignment is done for at least 3 more years. No changes. In 3 years the B12 will have evaluated if they make enough $ without going big and Notre Dame will know if they need a conference….which this year tells them they do not.
ggp
November 29th, 2012
5:50 am
Notre Dame is the deciding factor. If they join the ACC (full time), the conference will thrive. If ND continues to dance independently, GT should move to the BIG. Notre Dame brings more TV viewers than any other college team…by far. My gut feeling is that ND will join the ACC with Navy.
blackandwhitestripes
November 29th, 2012
7:09 am
+1 but they are about to play a real football Team. Rolllllll Tide!!!!!!!
Sideways 77
November 29th, 2012
8:33 am
I vote to stay in the ACC but I would not mind dropping UGA from our schedule and adding Notre Dame. To hell to hell with ND……..
Just A Comment
November 29th, 2012
10:00 am
Glad to Know What UNC Johnny Thinks. What is Tech saying? And Shouldn’t the Fearless Leader of the ACC be concerned with all those titles and championships won by academically eligible student athletes only eligible from fraudulant courses at UNC. Academic Fraud would make a few sweetshirts seem trival. So how many ACC Titles and potential National Titles does UNC stand to forfeit to the ACC League Office? The point is anybody but UNC and Duke staying in the ACC under Swofford ain’t just dumb but D$mn DUMB.
cpj
November 29th, 2012
10:17 am
joel
November 28th, 2012
2:38 pm
O’Leary beat UGA three years in a row ! Even the 11-3 GT team lost to UGA and had the ACC title taken away for violations.
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Of course we cheated to get these wins. The NCAA vacated them until we cried so hard they reinstated them. We always lie, cheat, steal and whine.
Steve
November 29th, 2012
10:32 am
Ken I was just wondering why we’re not seeing much coverage here about our basketball team. I think there are some legitimate reasons to be excited about this team. We competed well last night against a very good Illinois team and they beat a good St. Mary’s team over the weekend. I’m not sure we’ll be a tournament team but I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far.
the answer for GT
November 29th, 2012
11:09 am
build a new conference. two divisions:
East made up of GT, Citadel, Elon College, Wofford and Catawba College.
West made up of Georgia State, U of Chatanooga, UT @ Martin, Samford and Millsaps College.
The Conference championship game could be played in Atlanta at Grady HS’s Cheney Stadium.
THis game could be viewed in at least 4 metro Atlanta counties.
GT’s future in football is very bleak. NO following does Tech bring to the table. No brand awareness for Tech, pbeyond Fulton Counry and The Varsity.
Empty argument it is
November 29th, 2012
11:14 am
GT fans argue that UGA played cupcakes. Yes,we did and that includes Tech.
UGA won 11 games however and Tech with their baby soft schedule only won 6 and was humiliated by cupcake UGA.
The pollsters ranked UGA, not the UGA fan base, you morons.
College Football is KING
November 29th, 2012
11:21 am
This is why any GT fan’s argument about BB and baseball doesn’t hold up. Football is KING and I dont care a bit about the other sports. Your only hope for your conference was DUke and UNC but the “one and dones” are killing those programs, like UK. Get over yourself GT fans. Who cares about your academics? Who cares that you are a little brother to all other engineering schools in the country. You are certainly our little brother (insert Noogie here) and enjoy the ride when the other conferences cast lots for the one or two remaining tv markets in your little brother football conference.
UGA = Yawn
November 29th, 2012
12:07 pm
People are confused. Notre Dame HAS joined the ACC. So what is all this ‘if’ stuff? They are in the ACC starting in 2014 I believe. They will play a limited football schedule but they are a member of the ACC. And to ‘Joel’ from a few days ago – you are so right. O’Leary has been our best coach of the last few we’ve had.
UGA = Yawn
November 29th, 2012
12:10 pm
And PS: UGA’s regular season games did NOT include LSU, Alabama or Texas A&M – 3 of the best teams in the conference. USC, also a good team, smashed UGA and Florida barely lost and only did because of 6 turnovers.
Birmingham Jacket
November 29th, 2012
12:26 pm
We will end up in the Big 10 by 2014.
FSU and Clemson aren’t going to hang around in this poor excuse for a conference either.
Swafford is full of it.
The ACC is going to end up being the old Big East, and you can bet your bottom dollar our new AD isn’t going to tolerate our being stuck here.
Being in the ACC really hurts our recruiting.
This is not new news. There were rumors before D Rad even left.
Prometheus
November 29th, 2012
12:36 pm
A Rhodes (roads) Scholar in the SEC is a civil engineering student at Miss St.
B1G Commish
November 29th, 2012
12:38 pm
We are making an additional division especially for GT to go along with Leaders and Legends; it’s called “LOSERS”.
dawgfan
November 29th, 2012
12:43 pm
Reality check time. Tech fans act like they are above the ACC. You are 20-18 the past 3 seasons. You can’t win the crap bowl games you play against crap teams. Georgia Tech is the epitome of mediocre crap that defines ACC football. The Big 10 wants no part of Tech or Atlanta. This is hardcore SEC turf. If you want to join the Big 10 take your trade school up north and don’t let the door hit you in the azz on the way out. You and all of your whining will not be missed.
Now, if Conf USA calls I could see that happening. That’s more Tech’s speed.
GT Lee
November 29th, 2012
1:02 pm
” You can’t win the crap bowl games you play against crap teams.”
You know a lot about crap, dwagfan. I guess that’s why you are “CMR’s Official Poo Inspector”.
Thanks
lithe cpin
November 29th, 2012
1:03 pm
TX A& M, LSU, nor Alabama played UGA. This reality ws driven bymthe conference, not by Dr. Adams or CMR.
factoid:
UGA WHUPPED Florida. They whipped BOTH Tx A&M and LSU. UGA WILL WHUP ALABAMA.
CASE CLOSED.
GO DOGS !!
GT needs NEW RIVALS
November 29th, 2012
1:08 pm
here are some candidates to become GT rivals:
Samford, Belhaven College, U of N. Alabama, Jacksonville State and GEORGIA SOUTHERN COULD BECOME TECH’S NUMBER ONE RIVAL !!!
TECH has no business , even in the all cupcake conference.
dawgfan
November 29th, 2012
1:14 pm
No GT Lee, I just watch Georgia Tech football every once in a while. I watched it this past Saturday and it was one of the most incompetent and uninspired performances out of a supposedly BCS level team that I have ever seen. I can think of worse things than “crap” to describe it but it would probably get me banned from these blogs.
Big 10? Only in the same delusions that you have about beating Georgia. Tech fans should check themselves in to a mental institution.
Thanks.
Ken Sugiura
November 29th, 2012
1:31 pm
fair question. it’s mostly just me, and we’re still in football season. they’ll get their turn.
danny
November 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
Yale was once a prominent football powerhouse like Ga Tech. maybe Tech can present their academic delimma to the Ivy league and apply for admission. Is any team in that league familiar with the Spread Option?
NBTTruth
November 29th, 2012
3:58 pm
As a Georgia native, GT alum, and huge football fan, I can say that I will be done with GT football if we go to the B1G. I would rather stay in the struggling ACC and retain at least some of our southern tradition than join that pansy yankee conference a million miles away.
No one in the south cares about OSU, MICH, NEB, etc. when we have the best football product in the country right here in the south. Moving to the B1G would KILL us with southern recruits. We would turn into Northwestern in a few years and be completely irrelevant forever. Oh, and NOBODY CARES ABOUT BASKETBALL! As many yankees and foreigners as Tech has been admitting, please do not forget that we are a GEORGIA public school. We are in the south, where football is king. Please, move back to Big East land up north if you want to watch basketball schools with crap football.
Now, we have not been very good the past few years. We are getting killed in the recruiting game by the big name SEC schools in our back yard. BUT…the recruits are all around us! If we could give them something to be excited about and increase to even top 25 in recruiting then we would have a very solid team most years! It can be done! Look at our 07 class. Look what has happened at Vandy with their exciting new coach.
We are in a slump, which only builds on itself by scaring away more recruits, but we are not dead yet. I promise, if we get away from southern football competition, we are done for.
The absolute best thing that could happen to Tech would be to get back to the SEC…a longshot, I know. The SEC may not “gain” a ton from getting GT, but letting the B1G into Atlanta through GT would be a negative. I’ve still got my fingers crossed.
Other than the SEC, I say we stick with the ACC until the other southern schools, FSU, Clem, VT, UVA, start dropping. Then we pair up with one of them, hopefully in the B12, if not SEC.
B1G means the DEATH of GT football.
bill
November 29th, 2012
6:16 pm
Man, you gotta’ love GT posters who claim to be alums who “don’t care about Basketball ” or any other sport besides football…….true blue Tech fan for sure.
Think VERY few of us would want Tech in the BIG….but that is a possibility. Especially if something like FSU and Clemson bail. The SEC is never going to happen. That bird has flown long ago. Let’s hope the ACC is enough for FSU.
But if Tech ever did leave, bet you Miami would go wherever we go.FSU and Clemson are tied together. So would be Tech and the Canes.
Jacket Man
November 29th, 2012
6:23 pm
Just for the record, in case anyone noticed or even cares, the comment was the Jackets were “committed” to the ACC, but it didn’t say for how long. In other words, if the BIG comes to GA Tech and makes an inquiry about whether they’d be interested in joining, the “commitment” to the ACC may not be quite so “firm” any more.
bill
November 29th, 2012
6:38 pm
Kind of like the Clemson comment few months ago that they were committed to the ACC but were open to improving their status if the right situation presented itself.
Makes you wonder what is going on as far as who has the BIG called…
Also, guess UNC HAD to e-mail everyone and tell them the ACC was their sole intent. Sort of like that coach who states “I have not been contacted by(BlanK) University about their current opening…” when he is actually making himself known to be interested in that opening without actually saying so directly.
Prometheus
November 29th, 2012
7:02 pm
I see Clemson, FSU, VaTech and other fans continually throwing darts at ACC Commissioner John Swafford. People who matter know the quality of Swafford. Swafford, a Morehead Scholar, has risen to the top everywhere he has been. If he were not a man among men, the AD’s and university presidents with whom he has worked would surely have moved to depose him had they not have complete confidence in his leadership. Especially with all the competition and jealousy that permeates college sports. Bloggers are in many cases not high powered intellects.
Tech Guy
November 29th, 2012
7:46 pm
Radakovitch left Tech in big debt which they cannot afford. The annual debt burden will be about one fourth of GTAA’s budget. Tech would accept a BIG 10 offer, since GTAA is in desparate need of a source of income.
Ken Sugiura
November 29th, 2012
9:57 pm
tech guy – i believe you’re overstating the debt service a little bit. the total debt is greater and debt service is expected to peak at 18 percent of budget, but will go back down. that said, tech could use cash.
Richard
November 30th, 2012
12:47 pm
Then “Bud” is just as much of an idiot as Eric Barron at FSU. Schools like FSU, Clemson, Ga Tech and Miami have no business in the ACC. Unfortunately, FSU, Clemson and Miami have no where else to go. Ga Tech, if the Big 10 comes knocking and you don’t take it…..then you are one of the STUPIDEST engineering schools on the friggin planet. If they come calling, you better leave. Do it for all of us FSU fans that would sell our souls to the devil for an SEC or Big 12 invite. And since neither is ever going to happen, we will stay on the ACC vine and die a very slow and VERY painful death!