The ACC Expansion Groundswell

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  • snowcat
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 1348

    #1

    The ACC Expansion Groundswell

    Join the conversation on "BYU (now Independent) to ACC?". Read more on the premiere Clemson board


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  • USUC
    Chronic Poseur
    • Apr 2010
    • 8780

    #2
    Louisville president stumping for the school

    "[The ACC] would be a great conference for us, if we ever had that opportunity," Ramsey told WDRB. "It has great academic schools, great tradition and history going back to 1953. It's changing, has picked up, of course, some schools that were an integral part of the Big East. It's a wonderful conference."
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    If the ACC is smart they will let Maryland out as smooth and quickly as possible and get Louisville before the Big-12 does. The ACC is already considered the worst of the top 5 football conferences. Florida State is already worried about the conference becoming a basketball conference. Adding UConn only further solidifies the ACC's status as a basketball conference. Louisville adds a much better football team and a pretty damn good basketball team.

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    • Omaha 680
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2011
      • 11174

      #3
      So many groundswells.

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      • Mormon Red Death
        BYU Delenda Est
        • Nov 2008
        • 8077

        #4
        Originally posted by Omaha 680 View Post
        So many groundswells.
        So little time?

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        • LiveCoug
          LA Ute loves me
          • Nov 2008
          • 18486

          #5
          Looks like Louisville will be in after an expansion meeting tomorrow...

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          • Scratch
            Junior Member
            • Sep 2012
            • 173

            #6
            Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
            Looks like Louisville will be in after an expansion meeting tomorrow...

            http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...ls-source-says
            If you're Louisville, would you rather go to the B12 or ACC? I think the ACC is the better overall conference, but I think the B12 is more likely to exist in something resembling its current form for the next decade.

            It's actually kind of ironic; the ACC is stronger top to bottom in overall value of its institutions, but that actually makes it less stable than the B12. The most attractive conferences in that part of the country (generally) are the BIG and SEC, and since the ACC has more attractive teams it's getting poached by those conferences and the B12 is more likely to survive.

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            • Green Monstah
              Royal Rooter
              • Aug 2010
              • 13942

              #7
              L' bills is a basketball school, and the ACc is college basketball's premiere basketball conference, IMO.
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              • dabrockster
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2009
                • 10921

                #8
                Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                L' bills is a basketball school, and the ACc is college basketball's premiere basketball conference, IMO.
                Ahem.. I believe the premiere BBall conference would be the BIG 1G...

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                • New Mexican Disaster
                  Suomalainen
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 4549

                  #9
                  Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
                  Ahem.. I believe the premiere BBall conference would be the BIG 1G...
                  Maybe this year, but not year in and year out.

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                  • Coach McGuirk
                    1
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 12109

                    #10
                    Loiusville is a done deal now

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                    • Uncle Ted
                      The Big 12 money shot.
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 28853

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
                      It seems that the ACC is the new Big lEast. Former Big East schools: VA Tech, Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, and Notre Dame (well, sort of).
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                      • Green Monstah
                        Royal Rooter
                        • Aug 2010
                        • 13942

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                        It seems that the ACC is the new Big lEast. Former Big East schools: VA Tech, Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, and Notre Dame (well, sort of).
                        Yep. I think this makes the future of the B12 very precarious. Smallest conference, ACC seems to be reloading from MD loss. When we get to four conferences, the SEC and P12 will carve up the B12, and then we are stuck as an independent.
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                        • Jeff Lebowski
                          Corporate lackey for Jesus
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 69594

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                          Yep. I think this makes the future of the B12 very precarious. Smallest conference, ACC seems to be reloading from MD loss. When we get to four conferences, the SEC and P12 will carve up the B12, and then we are stuck as an independent.
                          Geez. Get a hold of yourself. More likely that the SEC, P12, B12 will all go to 16. I think there are reasonable odds that we get picked up in one of those scenarios.
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                          • Omaha 680
                            Senior Member
                            • Jul 2011
                            • 11174

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                            Yep. I think this makes the future of the B12 very precarious. Smallest conference, ACC seems to be reloading from MD loss. When we get to four conferences, the SEC and P12 will carve up the B12, and then we are stuck as an independent.
                            But that is at least 8-10 years off given the Big 12 grant of rights, correct? Unless that doesn't mean anything just like all the exit penalties that no one pays.

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                            • Goatnapper'96
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 10920

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                              Geez. Get a hold of yourself. More likely that the SEC, P12, B12 will all go to 16. I there are reasonable odds that we get picked up in one of those scenarios.
                              I can see my constant use of the F-word, mysogenistic posts challenging anyone and everyone (except KCCougar's) manhood, frequent homages to the greatest qb in BYU and college football history and stellar sophistry have finally won a convert!

                              The Big-12 will have to expand, I think BYU will be one they eventually pick up but I think there is some hesitancy to wait and see where the final sweet spot, wrt # of teams in a conference, is going to shake out. I think 12 is the optimal # but it appears that it will be at least 14. The only thing that could expedite BYU's eventual BCS ascension is if the Pac is looking to expand and feels it has no choice to add BYU over its other options. Then perhaps the Big-12 will go harder after BYU. I don't know who the Pac will add to expand. The options out west are meager unless they can pry away some of the Big-12 teams.
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