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All depends on how well Aresco negotiates our new deal.I'm curious if we could tread water until 2025. That's a lot of subsidies.
I continue to assert that Texas and Oklahoma are the key to the next round of expansion.
As odd as it seems - I think the fortunes of UConn are indirectly affected by whatever conference it is that Texas winds up. It's self-evident that UConn has a long-term influence over either the ACC or the B1G viz-a-viz the NE Corridor, and, more specifically UConn's proximity to NYC.
The B12 failed to expand last summer after a ballyhooed announcement of impending expansion and solicitation from interested schools. I think that reversal portends difficulty for the B12 at the end of the B12 GOR in 2025-26.
If OU decided for the SEC and Texas refused to follow OU into the SEC, I think there are persuasive reasons to believe that Texas would go ACC, especially if the ACC were willing to expand to 20, allowing Texas to bring in some "friends", comprising some western regionality.
For example, regional schools like TCU (Metroplex), Houston (Greater Houston), and either Tulane or Oklahoma State might fill the bill.
Furthermore, if OU were gone, there might be other reasons suggesting Texas to the ACC. Like many other schools, Texas is enamored of ND and its national following. If ND went "all in" ACC, that would probably be very important. Also, almost certainly here comes UConn, and its proximity to NYC, which would please both Texas and ND (plus, I'm thinking, all the rest of the ACC, except, perhaps, BC).
Now we're up to 17 in the ACC, leaving 3 spots for regional "friends" of Texas, discussed above. Certainly UConn is in any ACC mix of schools in any move to 20; indeed, if the ACC is willing to go to 20.
Having said all this, I like Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and UConn in the B1G scenario much better than the ACC scenario - and I think the B1G scenario is more likely - but here's the big point: The next round of serious expansion will be driven by Texas and Oklahoma. I think that's a near certainty. Any analysis of 20s expansion that does not take into account Texas and Oklahoma is, IMO, seriously flawed.
Temple won your conference last year, and then Wake beat them in the bowl game. Oh yeah, that Wake.The real question is why is Wake Forest in the Acc.
A Temple team that lost their coach before that game. And while they may have won the conference, Temple very well could have been the 5th best team in the conference. The only good teams they played in regular season conference play were USF (Win at home) and Memphis (Loss away)Temple won your conference last year, and then Wake beat them in the bowl game. Oh yeah, that Wake.
But still, that Wake. The Wake of Chris Paul and Tim Duncan. The Wake that went to the Orange Bowl 10 years ago. Wake has had its struggles, but it also has its history.A Temple team that lost their coach before that game. And while they may have won the conference, Temple very well could have been the 5th best team in the conference. The only good teams they played in regular season conference play were USF (Win at home) and Memphis (Loss away)
I bleed blue, but both Wake football and hoop were more entertaining to watch this year. Much more.
So will I see you at the car wash this weekend, or can The Range Rover go another week before it starts looking too rough?
I'm from CT. I drive a Volvo.
Good luck with that, short of a Papal bull (decree) it ain't happening .I think that UConn and Notre Dame as #15 and 16 and then splitting into North-South divisions would be great. Regional alignment more conducive to rivalries.
A few bumps in the road....
1....The Irish must join.
2....the North Division would have to give up games in Florida.
3....the South Division would have to give up games with Notre Dame
4....getting Virginia to leave their Duke, UNC buddies to play in the North Divisions
I can see Pope Francis pushing for ND to the ACC.Good luck with that, short of a Papal bull (decree) it ain't happening .
They might have to rename the conference A&GCC.Texas in the acc? Never heard that one before...That is a new one for sure. lol.