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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 131740417" data-attributes="member: 1428007">Here's a write up from a Kentucky site on some interesting comments recently from FSU's outgoing president:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.aseaofblue.com/2021/7/31/22603248/saturday-quickies-more-realignment-on-the-way-edition[/URL]&quot;Outgoing Florida (State) President John Thrasher was interviewed by the <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2021/07/29/florida-state-fsu-football-john-thrasher-president-university-retiring-acc-ncaa-oklahoma-texas/5415221001/">Tallahassee Democrat and his comments about his current conference, the ACC, were less than committal.</a> “My point to (FSU director of athletics) David Coburn and to (new ACC commissioner) Jim Phillips is I don’t want <a href="https://www.tomahawknation.com/">Florida State</a> to be left behind. I consider us as part of the ACC, but I also know that we have a marquee name, Clemson has a marquee name. I think there might be people coming after us, I don’t know, but we’ve got to be prepared no matter what the options are.”I think the “I consider us part of the ACC” portion was quite interesting. Would the SEC make another power move and raid the ACC taking away Florida State, Clemson, and maybe Miami? I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens eventually. It would probably be in the best interest of the ACC and the Big 10 to start moving on expanding or the SEC is going to gobble up whatever they want.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 131740417, member: 1428007"] Here's a write up from a Kentucky site on some interesting comments recently from FSU's outgoing president: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.aseaofblue.com/2021/7/31/22603248/saturday-quickies-more-realignment-on-the-way-edition[/URL] "Outgoing Florida (State) President John Thrasher was interviewed by the [URL='https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2021/07/29/florida-state-fsu-football-john-thrasher-president-university-retiring-acc-ncaa-oklahoma-texas/5415221001/']Tallahassee Democrat and his comments about his current conference, the ACC, were less than committal.[/URL] [B]“My point to (FSU director of athletics) David Coburn and to (new ACC commissioner) Jim Phillips is I don’t want [URL='https://www.tomahawknation.com/']Florida State[/URL] to be left behind. I consider us as part of the ACC, but I also know that we have a marquee name, Clemson has a marquee name. I think there might be people coming after us, I don’t know, but we’ve got to be prepared no matter what the options are.”[/B] I think the “I consider us part of the ACC” portion was quite interesting. Would the SEC make another power move and raid the ACC taking away Florida State, Clemson, and maybe Miami? I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens eventually. It would probably be in the best interest of the ACC and the Big 10 to start moving on expanding or the SEC is going to gobble up whatever they want." [/QUOTE]

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