League Expansion

[billybud]

Responding to Upstater...but thanks

 

[dwalks93]

Exactly...and that's when the football schools blew up...and why Louisville went in over UConn. As the blog I posted above stated...the football gods (Coach K and Williams) prevailed in 2011....

"The league is what it is; a basketball first conference pulling in two more solid basketball programs while swimming in a pond built for the football sharks. It happens. Sometimes you pick wrong in the grand scheme of things."

FSU, with Clemson, VT, GT, and Miami's backing, revolted against the basketball gods and forced in Louisville as a pick.

Mission accomplished by the ACC football schools, takeover complete....the ACC may now earn less than half of the BIG/SEC since they took programs that cannot sustain a network. Well done!!!

Luckily now those big dumb basketball schools like UNC and UVa are probably a lot more willing to leave the ACC after the football revolt. There would be some irony if the future ACC was big football programs without options like FSU, Clemson, Miami, left with NE basketball programs without options like BC, Syracuse, etc..

If you are going to grab the wheel, it helps to not drive the car off the road. The ACC football uprising has been about as successful as the Arab Spring in Syria. UNC and UVa could end up being the refugees who move to the BIG.

BTW you do understand this is a UConn board, right?