even the dukies....
"Odd that Georgia Tech, with 4 national football championships, is less magnificent than UVA, VT, UNC and NC State. I hope Duke has a plan for when the last shoe falls and I hope the plan is to maximize basketball instead a desperation attempt to keep football $ and relevance by cobbling together a second tier conference over an even larger geographic footprint than the current ACC. Perhaps the remaining ACC schools could join the Big East creating a large 2 division basketball conference and a small football conference including UConn and the former ACC schools."
"I could imagine worse scenarios from my perspective. It may seem like an issue of semantics, but I wonder if the ACC left-behinds would join the Big East or they could somehow convince the more attractive Big East members to join the ACC?"
"hard to say.
Would a school with football like uconn make more in the ACC next year than in the big east? Probably.
Would a school like villanova or creighton make more in ACC basketball next year than in the big east?
Will either of those schools be better off tying their fortunes to what could very well be a sinking ship as opposed to something that's going good? Uconn made that mistake once already, and I'm not sure the basketball schools want to deal with being in the tenuous position they were 10 years ago again.
It would be a hard sell for all parties, I think, especially due to the super long GoR and for the ACC, it would mean admitting failure at football, something I'm sure they're trying to avoid at least until the last one out turns off the lights."
