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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 5065066, member: 1414"]
Dave needs to be talking to the ACC behind the scenes.  The why now is answered by the fact that we accept the first/best invite.  I think the ACC has labored under the mistaken belief that they don't need to improve the basketball product, clearly they do.  Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville all stink.  Duke may be in decline.  I'm sure they don't want to dilute a mediocre football product, which we would do, at least initially.  But the reality is that the only "big time" football programs not in the B1G or SEC are Notre Dame, Clemson and FSU.  There are none in the Big XII.  The Big XII is trading on competitive football games among good not great teams and outstanding basketball.

The odds of the ACC splintering into oblivion are approaching zero. UConn is the best available brand by a huge margin. I said last fall, our road game at Kansas was important, because it was an audition of sorts, and we crushed it.  We showed up at a distant arena and packed restaurants and bars.  That's what they want to see.  It's what they'd want in Chapel Hill as well.
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