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"The ACC already looks a lot like the Big East, as additions of Miami, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville give it a familiar feel.
And this is the part that ACC folks don't like to hear: As the college landscape keeps shifting, the ACC will continue to look a lot more like the "old" Big East, just like the soon-to-be-renamed Big East now resembles the old Conference USA.
All five major conference commissioners privately acknowledge that realignment isn't done. And the next logical evolution will inevitably be a poaching of the ACC.
When will this happen? That's the biggest question among athletic directors and TV executives right now. No one knows the answer. But this much is certain -- there's nothing that's happened in the last three years that suggests that realignment will just stop. Will Jim Delany expand the Big Ten this spring with North Carolina and Virginia?
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-basketball/news/20130314/acc-madison-square-garden/#ixzz2NXQbBJaU"
This is an angst ridden piece of how the ACC should try to secure MSG by Pete "On Nate Miles' Doorstep" Thamel. Looks like he's afraid of Syracuse's new found home's stability. Reaffirmation that realignment isn't dead and that UVA is in the mix.
Whether we should be hoping for UNC and UVA to the Big 10 is complicated. If UNC and UVA, does Delany go to 18 with UConn and GTech? GTech and Duke? UConn and BC? If UNC demurs does UVA make the jump and then logically UConn is next?
For those hoping for a decimation of the ACC, while the ACC will be better than the memphis/tulsa/houston/tulane lineup of today, the ACC would most assuredly see NC State and VA Tech bolting. Free Shoes U and Clemson, also. No matter what, the power 5 will become the power 4, and march towards the 64 team split. Still, chaos is UConn's only ally at this point. I sure hope one of the conferences has the balls to be the first to crush the ACC, just as one in particular did to crush the Big East.
And this is the part that ACC folks don't like to hear: As the college landscape keeps shifting, the ACC will continue to look a lot more like the "old" Big East, just like the soon-to-be-renamed Big East now resembles the old Conference USA.
All five major conference commissioners privately acknowledge that realignment isn't done. And the next logical evolution will inevitably be a poaching of the ACC.
When will this happen? That's the biggest question among athletic directors and TV executives right now. No one knows the answer. But this much is certain -- there's nothing that's happened in the last three years that suggests that realignment will just stop. Will Jim Delany expand the Big Ten this spring with North Carolina and Virginia?
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-basketball/news/20130314/acc-madison-square-garden/#ixzz2NXQbBJaU"
This is an angst ridden piece of how the ACC should try to secure MSG by Pete "On Nate Miles' Doorstep" Thamel. Looks like he's afraid of Syracuse's new found home's stability. Reaffirmation that realignment isn't dead and that UVA is in the mix.
Whether we should be hoping for UNC and UVA to the Big 10 is complicated. If UNC and UVA, does Delany go to 18 with UConn and GTech? GTech and Duke? UConn and BC? If UNC demurs does UVA make the jump and then logically UConn is next?
For those hoping for a decimation of the ACC, while the ACC will be better than the memphis/tulsa/houston/tulane lineup of today, the ACC would most assuredly see NC State and VA Tech bolting. Free Shoes U and Clemson, also. No matter what, the power 5 will become the power 4, and march towards the 64 team split. Still, chaos is UConn's only ally at this point. I sure hope one of the conferences has the balls to be the first to crush the ACC, just as one in particular did to crush the Big East.