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If the ACC was smart, they'd just offer UConn and Rutgers and go to two 8 team pods. Renegotiate with ESPN (again), raise the exit fee and be done with it. You'd have a 16 team eastern powerhouse of a conference that can set the standard as a multisport conference.
I expect something like that to happen if the offer from NBC would truly exceed what ESPN is paying the ACC. Maybe it's UConn and Rutgers. Maybe there is a deal to push Louisville, with or without Cincy, to the Big XII. But ESPN doesn't have much work to do to split the football schools off from the Catholics (and then sign a TV hoop deal with the Catholics), and if they need to do that I don't doubt that they will.