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    I like big bats and I cannot lie: Acquiring a hitter

    Priority has to be JD Martinez to fill the role of big bat.. 2nd priority is signing either E.Nunez or Jed Lowrie to play Second Base while Pedroia rehabs his knee. Ill take offense over defense in that role. And put Betts back into lead off position. Betts Nunez Benintendi Martinez Ramirez...
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    Potential Red Sox manager candidates

    And yet the Varitek family moving van is planning it's trip toward the Boston area as the off season begins. So whether the "Special Assistant" is 2 feet away from Cora or sitting in a Front Office Box Seat, there will be a Tek sightings on a regular basis in Fenway next season. Cora wont last...
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    Potential Red Sox manager candidates

    I have selected ALEX CORA to be the next Red Sox Manager. Now that I have spoken, you can close the thread. ...and Varitek should be his bench coach unless Dumborowski makes him take Ausmus. (can someone drag Leyland out of retirement for a 2 year stint on the bench helping Cora...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    It's clearly not the same deal for ND's non-revenue Sports. Big XII can't offer what it doesn't have. Football, Hockey & Fencing are outlayers for any Conference they look at. However, BIG XII Conference doesn't sponsor Mens Lax, Womens Lax, Men's Soccer, Men's Swimming&Diving (Women's...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    The formation of the BE League is recent. The sponsoring of the sport at most of those schools is not. They have been playing Men's Lacrosse at many of those schools for several decades. The formation of sanctioned League has to do with getting an AQ to the NCAA tournament and that AQ is now...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    Not the best match-up unless you are talking Baseball/Softball/Golf because the BIG XII doesn't even sponsor several of the sports that Notre Dame offers. It's not a better basketball conference for either Men's or Women's Hoops. The M/W Cross-Country is not any better. In the state of...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    1) Villanova plays Temple in "local rivalry". It's called the BIG 5. They play AT Temple this December. They play 18 BE games and still take on the 4 rivalry games each season. It's cumbersome and doesn't give them a lot of room in OOC scheduling but Jay Wright wants them to keep playing...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    So faced with an option of adding a Philadelphia BIG EAST Football team that 13/16 schools in the League had no objection towards and in the interest of doing what's best for the League to protect poachers coming from....let's say the ACC, we had Rutgers, WVU and PITT all blocking Villanova's...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    One of the pundits over at FOXsports already mentioned that a WAC-SUN BELT football only association similar to the MWC-ConfUSA merger could be next in line. It won't challenge for a BCS but it should creates stability and strength in numbers for FOOTBALL. You might want a CAA-Big East...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    Again, you have your facts wrong. Villanova did not block TEMPLE FOOTBALL. The two major College writers in Philadelphia are both TEMPLE Alumni. One of them, Mike Kern, has both of his kids there now. They bleed Owl blood in every article they write and they don't hide that fact to...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    Villanova has not blocked a Football invite for Temple. They only requested that a full membership not be granted to a school directly within their market. 30 years of Big East membership certainly qualifies them to make that request. When you've won 22 out of the last 23 BIG FIVE games and...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    USF is like Mayo in "An Officer & a Gentleman". They "got no where else to go!!" I'd hate to see Conference USA football programs calling the shots on a merger with leftover BIG EAST Football schools. Because then UCF will be the one deciding on whether to allow USF to join them...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    In addition to facilities, geographic locations have a lot to do with certain Olympic sports and who is generally successful nationally. Warm weather sports geberally have more success in the Southern regions and in the West Coast (california). Baseball, Softball, Tennis & Golf players want to...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    BCS is not now and has NEVER been shorthand for Conferences strong in all sports. It is a FOOTBALL based configuration with the vast majority of the participants being state funded institutions. Some BCS conference are good in one sport and horrible in another. The Football revenue plus the...
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    Conference Realignment Thread

    BCS doesn't govern the set-up of Volleyball, Lacrosse, Cross-country, Soccer, Baseball, Softball, Tennis etc. National Championships in Olympic sports are won in NCAA tournaments not in Conferences play. You have to make the NCAA playoffs or be an individual qualifier to win a National Title...
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