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According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, the ACC’s addition of Notre Dame as a full member in all sports except for football irked top Maryland officials, because it broke with the conference’s traditional requirement that all members must participate in all sports.
Sitting at 13 in football and 14 in everything else is a real possibility, according to ACC athletic directors who were trying to sort through Maryland's possible defection.
If the league were to attempt to replace Maryland, the most obvious and, perhaps only, expansion target would be the University of Connecticut. It is by far the most attractive candidate left on the East Coast. About the only other schools that could be on the radar are Central Florida and South Florida, and neither is realistic, according to at least one ACC source.
Going to 14 never made sense, except to open up re-negotiating the tv contract with ESPN. 13 in football would be assinine, but ACC could lose another or gain one I suppose. Best move might be add UConn and either Gtown/Nova for 16 all sports and get back in the DC market.The ND move to the ACC is already poisoning the well.
So it looks like it is us or nothing for the ACC. Let's hope we're the better alternative.
LOL, Wetzel. UMass to the Big East.
Going to 14 never made sense, except to open up re-negotiating the tv contract with ESPN. 13 in football would be assinine, but ACC could lose another or gain one I suppose. Best move might be add UConn and either Gtown/Nova for 16 all sports and get back in the DC market.
UMess is the Nevada-Reno of the east coast!LOL, Wetzel. UMass to the Big East.
????? As a Nevada season ticket holder I take great offense to this statementUMess is the Nevada-Reno of the east coast!
Wetzel is a uMess grad so it is not surprising that he would write something like that.LOL, Wetzel. UMass to the Big East.
What other prestigious options do the ACC have right now?Won't BC just end up blocking us even if MD leaves? I don't think Deflippo retiring will change their vindictive ways towards us.
What other prestigious options do the ACC have right now?
We're fine now, at least for the ACC. We had to put on our "big boy pants" and keep winning. And have to keep winning.Judging by our luck with this shifting conference crapola dating back to 2003, something will come up.
Len Elmore, who starred on the Maryland men’s basketball team from 1971 to 1974 and now is a basketball commentator for ESPN, called the news “sad” and Maryland’s possible defection to the Big Ten a “bad move.”
ACC then essentially becomes the old Big East. FSU and Clemson will be leaving for the B12 - book it!
Len Elmore, who starred on the Maryland men’s basketball team from 1971 to 1974 and now is a basketball commentator for ESPN, called the news “sad” and Maryland’s possible defection to the Big Ten a “bad move.”
“From a standpoint of tradition, I didn’t think my alma mater would be looking for a money grab, one of the most pernicious things in all of college sports,” Elmore said. “It’s nuts. They’re blinded by the dollars.”
Poor Len. It's all great when the ACC is decimating the Big East, but now that his alma matre is going to the Big Ten he's upset.
Len Elmore, who starred on the Maryland men’s basketball team from 1971 to 1974 and now is a basketball commentator for ESPN, called the news “sad” and Maryland’s possible defection to the Big Ten a “bad move.”
“From a standpoint of tradition, I didn’t think my alma mater would be looking for a money grab, one of the most pernicious things in all of college sports,” Elmore said. “It’s nuts. They’re blinded by the dollars.”
Poor Len. It's all great when the ACC is decimating the Big East, but now that his alma matre is going to the Big Ten he's upset.
The loss of Rutgers could actually solve the Big East's numbers game for football -- the league is currently stuck at an odd number with Navy's future arrival, though their absence from all sports would be a blow to the identity of the conference.
Len Elmore, who starred on the Maryland men’s basketball team from 1971 to 1974 and now is a basketball commentator for ESPN, called the news “sad” and Maryland’s possible defection to the Big Ten a “bad move.”
“From a standpoint of tradition, I didn’t think my alma mater would be looking for a money grab, one of the most pernicious things in all of college sports,” Elmore said. “It’s nuts. They’re blinded by the dollars.”
Poor Len. It's all great when the ACC is decimating the Big East, but now that his alma matre is going to the Big Ten he's upset.