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Message: [QUOTE="B12, post: 5076293, member: 9932"] The 2 spots are for Cal and Stanford IMO. Once the ACC is gutted they will have to choose between 2 similar conferences with one being regional. Once all the good teams leave there will be no reason for them to stay in the ACC. The PAC will try to get them in any way possible IMO. I also do not think AFA will try to move up. They have no reason to try, the AD has a similar subsidy to UConn so no reason to try to step up to a "power" conference. Same for Army and Navy. Armed forces and NIL simply do not mix and that's what's going to differentiate the different levels of sports. Seems to me that the P12 and leftover ACC schools will attempt to make up the bottom of the new P-4/5 either by combining as one national conference or 2 coastal conferences. My take is that we are getting ready to see the separation of the FBS level into 2 divisions based on the amount of payment the schools are going to make to players. That may also include the best FCS conferences moving up to that new division with the G-5. When that happens and the power conferences break away paying players more $ I think there is a chance they have their own BB tournament as well. Not sure that would include the Big East. Why would they want to share that income with them? Why would all the same conferences that currently choose to play in the tournament keep doing so if the other teams have growing advantages? Seems the BB tournament will be the next thing that conference realignment changes. [/QUOTE]

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