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Message: [QUOTE="dayooper, post: 4356725, member: 3859"] Honestly, I think 48 teams is the end game, here. Kevin Warren said yesterday that AAU membership is not a requirement, but they would have to fit in with the academics of the conference. Here’s my 8: 1. ND 2. Stanford 3. Washington 4. Oregon 1-4 are pretty common choices and only ND could have issues leaving their current conference. 5. FSU 6. GT I think 5-6 are important to the Big10 and less so to the SEC. The SEC would already have the top schools in each state and these 2 would give the Big10 a presence, albeit a lesser one. 7. Miami 8. Cal 7-8 are the longest shot. A private school that’s 3rd in popularity and an academic powerhouse that has poor major sports. I, personally would not want Cal nor Miami, but I see each of them as something Big10 presidents would like. You are wondering where UNC and UVA are? If the Big10 and SEC are going to break up the ACC, neither conference can have everything. As has been floated here and other sites, there’s talk that UNC and UVA are so important to the SEC that they would take VT and Duke/NCST to get them. Let’s say they take VT and Duke, that puts them at 4. 1. UNC 2. UVA 3. VT 4. Duke 5. Clemson 6. Cincinnati Clemson is a no brainer, but Cinci gives the SEC a foothold in a huge, football crazed state. UC is a huge, well decorated school with pretty good athletics. Cinci is about as southern as Lexington KY is and would fit right in. The last 2, much like the Big10 are a little harder. Here’s my ideas. 7. Pitt 8. Colorado Much like GT in Georgia, Pitt in the SEC is a solid #2 in a huge state. The football isn’t as good as it used to be in Pennsylvania, but owning Pittsburgh (a football crazed town) might be useful. Colorado is a reach, but it’s a new and large market that has a great football legacy. Oklahoma/Colorado games have history so you could play off of that. The current crazy idea of breaking the ACC GOR is to disband the conference and you need 8 to do it. (I’m not saying you can, but that’s the talk right now). You will have to find homes for at least 8 teams. Could the SEC take all 8 to get to 24? Sure, but it would be wiser to spread the lesser teams between the 2 with the Big10 only getting ND and FSU as what would be somewhat valuable schools to the SEC. This would find homes for 9 ACC teams (plus ND). That would leave BC, Syracuse, NCST, Wake Forest and Louisville as schools left out. Could the SEC trade Colorado or Pitt for them? Sure, but I’m not sure they add much more than the other 2 do. Edit: I’m not saying this will happen, just a scenario. [/QUOTE]

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