Do they ever?
Louisville was the type of short-sighted move the ACC pulled off nine years ago when it added BC, Miami, and Virginia Tech. The first two have been epic disasters to say the least, and while VTech has pulled its weight, we're still talking about a relatively small market.
The ACC had a chance to lock up New England and much of the tristate area by taking Rutgers and UConn a year ago. They passed. More recently, the conference had a chance to lock up the two best free agents (Louisville and UConn)...yet chose to take the smaller-market school for its marginally better football/to appease Florida State.
Instead of learning from what the B1G, SEC and Pac-12 have done during realignment (expanding the conference's market base/TV sets), the ACC repeated its mistakes from the past. And there's a 99% chance they get picked apart because of it.
I disagree completely about VT. VT was a shortsighted move that ended up being a good/decent move. The original three the ACC wanted were Miami, BC and Cuse. Cuse got booted for VT. That was a shortsighted add at UVA's request. VT was duplicated in every market the ACC was in. VT is only big in VA and DC area.
BC and Miami were train wreck additions. Small private schools are not the future. Further, isolating BC up north was an insane decision.
Pitt and Cuse were decent adds, but adds that were completely undone by the B1G taking NJ/NYC with Rutgers and stealing Maryland/DC from them. The ACC could have dominated NYC if it had added four instead of two at that juncture and you know Rutgers/UConn/UL would have joined in a second. You can't go halfway and that's what the ACC tried to do.
UL over UConn was just the icing on the cake of short term decisions. It wasn't the worst move, but it wasn't a good one either.
I know the B1G may not be interested in UConn but leaving UConn as a potential target for the B1G is one of the dumber decisions made by the ACC. If UConn were picked up by the B1G they would take away any advantage the ACC had in NYC and take away any chance the ACC had at getting eyeballs in NE. Any potential ACC network wouldn't get off the ground in NE and cable would have a tough time adding it in NYC just for Cuse.
The only lucky part so far with the ACC, in regards to UConn, is that the B1G can't add UConn without adding someone else and there is no one else they want/can add ATM. However, this is also a huge flaw. It allows the B1G to target one school, instead of two, from the ACC. It doesn't have to convince UVA and GT/UNC/etc. but rather just one. The B1G may not want UConn but you are kidding yourself if you think they wouldn't add UConn to get that ACC team. They know as well as anyone else that if one more ACC team leaves and ND doesn't join then the ACC implodes and UNC becomes free game and UNC is a huge prize for the B1G