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[QUOTE="jostar1, post: 4551569, member: 1737"]
Yes. It was the UNC AD who was doing some out of the box thinking here:

"It was actually the ACC and more to the point the University of North Carolina that brought up the idea. Andrew Carter of The News & Observer, last summer reported that [B]university leadership at North Carolina floated the idea of a “super conference” between the ACC and Pac-12.[/B]

“Should we explore a partnership with the Big 12 or Pac 12[?]” UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham texted university chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz.

“We could have a super conference both athletically and academically,” Guskiewicz responded. “Probably would need to be called the Atlantic-Pacific Athletic Conference (APAC). Maybe that’s crazy, but if it would get us a better TV deal, it may be worth considering,” he continued.

“We need to think about what outcomes we want? What are our priorities?[B] Do we want to maintain all teams in the ACC? I[/B]s this a new league?[B] Do we want to have the same number of teams at each school? Should we play a national schedule or regional schedule?”[/B] Cunningham questioned..
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