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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5063996, member: 833"] UConn should have been in the ACC 10+ years ago, and they should be in now. Maybe someone at BCU should talk to a strategy professor at their business school to explain just how royally ruined the athletic program will be if the next two chess moves go against it. Even if FSU and Clemson don't win their GOR lawsuit, the ACC is letting another league right into its backyard, which is just stupid strategically. The ACC should have merged with the BE5 in 2012 rather than pick the league off piecemeal. Take WVU, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse and UConn, and lockup the Northeast. With those schools, the ACC would have had a hammerlock on the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, and its long-term survival would be assured. Now other leagues are sprinkled among the ACC schools, diluting the regional value. I do think the Big 12's interest in UConn is in part because no one believes FSU or Clemson are actually going to win their cases, and UConn is one of the last decent expansion targets left for the P4. I don't think the Big 12 would be looking at us if the ACC's collapse was imminent. [/QUOTE]