Louisville was a geat decision. They got hit with a major recruiting scandal and the state dissolved their board of regents. The financing for the Yum! Center is being scrutinized finally and their financial house of cards is about to collapse. Who cares about all that stuff when you can win some FB and BB games? Education and integrity be damned!
The result of the decision speaks for itself....
The ACC..in 2012
.....was seen as endangered
.....no GOR, no network
.....programs defecting or threatening to do so
.....opinions rampant that the conference would never see a playoff
.....even more opinions that the SEC, B1G, and Big 12 would raid them.
The ACC now...
...2 of the last 4 football NC's
...2 of the last 3 basketball NC's
...baseball NC year before last
...long term GOR, media contract and stability
...setting records for NCAA tourney credits and future payouts
...upcoming network
and, with the taking of Louisville off of the Big 12's board, a monkey wrench was thrown into the Big 12's cogs. There is no talk about the Big 12 pushing anyone around now...only talk of their possible continued survival.
The ACC emerged from that fight for existence, red of tooth and claw, but alive to fight another day.