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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1598013, member: 2141"] Couple of thoughts. First, this completely ignores two key points. First, neither the ACC not the XII have a TV network in place yet and both face major hurdles. Until that is done, both conferences will remain. Second, ND does what ND wants to do regardless of anyone else, including BC, just check who was the home team at Fenway. The only exception looks to be Navy, which is not applicable in the P4 discussion. Also, I can see Duke coming along with UNC because they offer more in terms of brand (Duke basketball), including the Duke/UNC hoops rivalry, and Duke, and AAU school, would be very attractive to the academic side of the B1G, including the CIC. For example, the B1G/CIC would cover 5 (Northwestern, Chicago, Michigan, Hopkins, Duke) of the top 20 hospitals in the country, a percentage only matched by the Ivy League. BC is not AAU, does not have a research hospital, and there is a big difference philosophically when it comes to the sciences between a sectarian private university and a religious private university. It's a stretch; but, I can actually see the B1G offering BU a partial membership like they have done with Johns Hopkins as they would get BU's hockey program (other BU sports can play in the Patriot like they do today) and get an AAU university in Boston with a research hospital and serious science and engineering programs. I doubt BU would leave Hockey East; but, stranger things have happened. [/QUOTE]

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