Louisville is the best option available. The ACC can help them improve their academics, though they've been improving it themselves quite a bit the last few years.
This conference doesn't need another craptastic team in the frozen tundra origins of carpetbaggers and snowbirds that doesn't have fans and doesn't field a competitive product. What the ACC needs more than anything else is a team with a damned pulse in football. And UCONN aint it. Louisville athletics is a net upgrade over Maryland athletics in literally everything except lacrosse and soccer. And if those are your sports, may I suggest Johns Hopkins? The Louisville basketball program alone makes almost TWICE the annual profit the GTAA makes on EVERYTHING.
If you want to play in the all academic conference, apply to the Ivy League and drop to FCS in football... because nobody here can tell me with a straight face that you can be nationally competitive, consistent, relevant, and fighting for titles if you're tough academically across the board. The only program that has been consistently Top 25 the last 5 years with an elite academic reputation is Stanford, and even Stanford has the infamous "easy A list" and majors to hide players in. If you gripe about UofL academics you should be barred from ever making a post on any GT board suggesting academic changes for GT's football woes, and yea, I think the Hill is part of the problem (but by no means all of it).
