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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 1200678, member: 3850"] If it was basketball driving the money bus and it was the UConns, Georgetowns, Dukes, etc banded together in leagues with all of the money and football schools like FSU, Bama, and Clemson were on the outside...I'd bet the fans of these football schools would be just as unhappy with the shakeout. I know I would be in that crowd. The landscape has changed fairly rapidly and it caught the ACC flatfooted....basketball was king in terms of revenue...then it all changed. [I]"When I took over as commissioner of the ACC (in 1987), I'd say 75 percent of our money came from basketball," former ACC Commissioner Gene Corrigan said. "It's hard to imagine that now. We had to fight and claw to get into the Bowl Alliance and BCS. I don't think many people wanted us or the Big East."[/I] [/QUOTE]