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[QUOTE="NYUConn, post: 1684385, member: 6274"]
The argument isn't that Louisville doesn't have value. The argument is that Louisville's value to the ACC was nowhere near that of which they had to replace: Maryland.

For all the reasons I've already laid out (DC DMA, Academics, fanbase and atheltic history), Maryland was a key piece to what the ACC needed to move forward and build a network and the ACC lost them.

However, just as egregious as it is that they lost Maryland, they went out and added a program that did absolutely nothing to address their needs as a conference. It got them a football program that rattled off a couple good seasons after spending a generation in obscurity, but didn't replace their missing DC DMA program and did nothing to counter the B1G's major incursion into NYC.

Sure, the Big 12 should of added Louisville when they had the chance but they definitely didn't lose any ground because they decided not to. In fact, when all the dust settles and if the Big 12 ends up getting a conference network before the ACC does in part because of UConn's television sets, it may end up being a blessing in disguise that the ACC was so out clueless during CR.
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