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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 1609355, member: 2839"] Pertinent responses: [B]Q: You’re at 15 teams right now, and everyone is still skittish about expansion. That’s an odd number. Would you like to add a 16th team? [/B] A: No, not really. If Notre Dame — and I’m not suggesting that they will, because they were not brought [to the ACC] with the anticipation that football would join in full between now and through our current television agreements [ending in 2022] … but if Notre Dame joins a league in football, it would be the ACC. But, unless that were to happen, there’s no discussion going on in our league about adding another member right now. In football, it would throw our divisions out of kilter, for one reason [B]Q: Do you monitor those things, though? The Big 12 gives off the impression it might be interested in adding schools. Does that possibility make you keep an eye on a potential shifting landscape?[/B] A.[B] [/B]Well, not really. I mean, we’ve come out as a league very, very well over the last decade. We’re very pleased with where we are and look forward to the future with these 15 schools. It gives us a lot of opportunities that, as a smaller conference, we didn’t have, and I think it’s strengthened us in every respect. But, you know, right now, I think my best guess is, in terms of the five major conferences, you’re not going to see any movement among those five. I don’t know what the Big 12 will do. [Commissioner] Bob Bowlsby and I are good friends and talk often, and he’s a very thoughtful, bright guy that will bring excellent leadership to that decision with their schools, and of course, the schools will all make that decision, but I don’t think, if they expand, it would be anyone within the other four autonomy conferences. We’ll just have to see with that. But, I think that the landscape is well-settled right now, and that’s a good thing for college athletics. Swofford was also asked about B.C. and he referred to them as a "University" twice. By definition, BC is not a university. On the other hand his conference realignment comments are interesting to say the very least. [/QUOTE]

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