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ACC Expansion

Future Memeber

  • Louisville

    Votes: 49 57.6%

  • UConn

    Votes: 36 42.4%
  • Total voters
    85
The larger issue is that the ACC is a basketball conference. It will never be one of the big 4 BCS leagues. So the bottom line is, what other conference do we join?!?
 
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I don't think we go anywhere. ACC is the best academic conf bar none and that's how we want to align ourselves.

We all know ND is going to be full football within the next several years. UCONN is the next no-brainer. Out of what is left, PSU would be logical school. Why would they join? BC we're going to have the golden child ND sooner than later and that means bigger payouts for all as well as aligning itself with the academic elites.
 
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I realize this is all conjecture, but most of us would agree that we are moving toward 4 conferences of 16 teams, and now matter how you cut it, the ACC is not one of those 4. Therefore, it is very possible that the ACC disintegrates, much like the BE is now.

I can see Clemson and FSU going to the Big 12, GT and UM going to the Big 10, and the SEC raiding the Big 12, allowing more ACC and BE teams to move there.
 
Not sure why the ACC couldn't be a big 4 conference with BIG 10, PAC 12 and SEC. Shooting for Texas now, is like trying to get ND in the door.

When the dust settles, Texas may need to make a move. Why not the ACC?

Nothing about Louisville is exciting to me. Adding UCONN seems more like saving UCONN than helping the ACC.
 
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Angry Ibis said:
Not sure why the ACC couldn't be a big 4 conference with BIG 10, PAC 12 and SEC. Shooting for Texas now, is like trying to get ND in the door.

When the dust settles, Texas may need to make a move. Why not the ACC?

Nothing about Louisville is exciting to me. Adding UCONN seems more like saving UCONN than helping the ACC.
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Big 12 has Texas and Oklahoma, and much more of a football tradition. If the Big 10 wanted us to access Florida and the Miami TV market, we would be gone in a second.
 
I rather see the U join SEC in order to boost their recruiting machine and generate $$$.
 
djh said:
I rather see the U join SEC in order to boost their recruiting machine and generate $$$.
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UFag doesnt want UM in the SEC, and my educated guess is, we dont want to be associated academically with the SEC. The Big 10 makes much more sense. They have no Florida schools, and a strong academic base.
 
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We should take wv just to ***kk with the big 12 .....(tv rights issues just making convo)

I prefer UL over Uconn tho
 
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LOL UM in the big ten. As has been stated UCONN is a fit on all fronts. The ACC actually wanted them over Pitt, but BC had a tantrum. Academically UCONN is ranked ahead of a handful of current members. Louisville makes FSU look like Duke.
 
Btw it gives great joy to the powers at UM to be in a conference with Notre Dame, Duke, BC, Cuse, and Wake. The ACC is the premiere conference for elite private universities.
 
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djh said:
I rather see the U join SEC in order to boost their recruiting machine and generate $$$.
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id rather not be associated with the rednecks plus i dont even think the SEC would want us in. we dont have a huge fanbase and were not a traditionally southern school w any southern traditions. we already tailgate much differently than any other school. its like a night club in west lot w all the djs set up there
 
Ethnicsands said:
Hurrickaneof83 said:
3FW said:
UCONN academically is a fit, Louisville is not. I'd be shocked if the ACC invited louisville over UCONN.
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You mean the same UCONN team that is ineligible in BB because their APR was too low? They both can use PR boost that the ACC brings for good academics.
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The University of Connecticut is a very good academic institution, with a very good athletic program, that happens to be on the Atlantic Coast and dominates sports in the NE.

If the ACC expands, UCONN is going to be part of it or someone's brain dead.

Who else to add is an interesting question. Notwithstanding the jokes about child ****ers, Penn State would be a good add. Louisville is a reach. WVA would be culturally a reach but no less plausible than LV.
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They have won just about everything the Big East has to offer and they just seem to fit in better in the ACC than Louisville would.
 
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AngryIbis said:
Nothing about Louisville is exciting to me. Adding UCONN seems more like saving UCONN than helping the ACC.
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Agreed, but even with that, I still prefer Louisville over UConn.. at least they bring something to the table in football.. and basketball wise they are pretty much the same..
 
UConn for obvious reasons.

ND as a full member.

Texas to alter the landscape. If Texas can be had (don't know how), but I would then take another school from there that will tag along.
 
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