What will you say if all three or at least two of the three joins B1G?
Do you know the guy personally to say he has no sources?
I will say it is about time they leave the ACC, because that move will help UConn. Unlike most message board posters, I would rather be wrong and have a good outcome than right and have the current trend of realignment beatings continue.
I think UConn is in somewhat the same boat as Rutgers, where we are worth more to the Big 10 than we are to the ACC.
I think the next realignment move, if any, is likely to be Cincinnati and BYU to the Big 12. If you look at Texas' pattern in recent years, they run off stronger programs in terms of popularity and replace them with high quality teams but programs with weaker attractiveness in terms of fanbase, because that way Texas keeps control. Texas likes pulling the strings in the Big 12, and they could bring in a high quality football/basketball program that will do what it's told, and provides WVU a travel partner and rival. BYU is both good in football/basketball and has the biggest fan base of any school not in a major conference. The Sunday play thing is minor and easy to schedule around. Texas may choose to do nothing, but if the allow the Big 12 to expand, it looks like they neither want nor can get FSU and Clemson out of the ACC at this point.
ESPN is facing a calamity if the ACC falls apart, and they would become, overnight, a secondary player in college sports if that happened. Fox would have more and better content than the worldwide leader if the ACC disintegrated. I believe these UNC, UVa, GTech, etc. rumors are being leaked by the ACC to get ESPN to push the contract up. I think you will see, in the next six months, a deal for the ACC network that will pay the ACC a ton of money they were not going to get before.
