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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 5303044, member: 44"]
I suggest you're not thinking it all the way through Fishy.  Nothing happens unless somebody is willing to put the bill for it.  If ESPN is the one subsidizing expansion, the teams added, will be exactly the teams that they want to add.  You understand that, right?

If they didn't want to add SMU, Cal or Stanford they could have simply said that they weren't willing to pay any additional money for those additions to the conference and it would've stopped right there. I guarantee that no member of the ACC was willing to have their share diluted in order to add two West Coast teams.  SMU is a little bit different because they essentially came for free, but even then why add them if it doesn't put more money in existing members pockets?

Even ignoring the economics behind conference expansion, you don't have to take my word for for the notion that ESPN is calling the shots because former BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo expressly stated that "ESPN told us what to do."

So, while you might "guarantee" that ESPN would've preferred UConn over SMU, Cal or Stanford, the fact is that whether or not we joined the ACC was their choice.
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