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Message: [QUOTE="pick6s, post: 5327470, member: 484"] There’d be one slot left after the nine teams I listed above are selected, so the remaining ACC teams would be: BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, Wake Forest, Cal, Stanford, and SMU. Which one(s) would the B12 take over UConn? I’m not sure whether any of them would be more desirable than a UConn, if we establish and consistently maintain a reasonable football level. Wake Forest doesn’t bring much to the table, especially since Duke is already going to the B12 in this scenario, so they’ll have a presence in NC already. BC has been terrible at sports for quite a while and they don’t get much attention in Boston. SMU is coming off an excellent football season, but the B12 already has lots of teams in Texas, including TCU, which is basically next door to SMU. Cal is a large public university but they haven’t had much success in the major sports for a little while now. Plus, the Bay Area doesn’t have a large college football following. They’d also be geographically isolated, especially since Stanford wouldn’t be coming with them as a travel partner. Stanford is an excellent academic school with a phenomenal overall athletic department, but they have had recent struggles in both of the sports that generate most of the money: football and men’s basketball. As mentioned above, the Bay Area doesn’t have a large college football following, and Stanford be geographically isolated since Cal wouldn’t be coming with them as a travel partner. Syracuse has some basketball history, but they haven’t exactly been great for a while now. They would bring a New York presence to the conference though. Their football has been okay, though they had a strong 2024. Louisville is a poor academic school that has been good in football every so often and has had basketball success. They're also in Kentucky, which isn’t exactly a large market. They would provide a perfect geographic rival for Cincinnati. Pitt has nibbled around the football top 25 for years, but they haven’t had much basketball success recently and don’t bring a particularly large market. They would provide a perfect geographic rival for West Virginia. Meanwhile, UConn brings access to the NYC and New England markets, elite men’s and women’s basketball, and solid academics. The downside is we’re only a few years removed from an excessively horrific decade of football. But if UConn can start going 9-4 on a regular basis, is their profile really worse that the other eight candidates? I’m not saying they would necessarily have the strongest case, but I absolutely feel they would be in the discussion. After all, there’s a reason the B12 was having serious discussions about adding UConn a year ago. [/QUOTE]

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