I don't want to add anyone, I want GT to leave. The ACC is a flaming pile and is in complete desperation mode to avoid going the way of the Big East, nearly the entire constituency of whom it has already absorbed.
I'm not against Louisville in specific, they're probably the best move at this point, but having gotten to this point is a sad milestone on a long sad road for the ACC. Just last year (or whenever) we turned down WVU on academic grounds despite their recent athletic success, but we're backtracking at the speed of sound on that stance now. One of two things is happening here:
1) The ACC really sees itself as a basketball conference. I'm not a basketball fan, so this is not for me, but adding Louisville would make sense here, although WVU has been pretty good at basketball in recent memory as well. So we're still backtracking in a very frustrating way since if we weren't handicapped by our academic elitism to begin with we'd have had the opportunity to go after a few other good athletic schools during the conferencepocalypse.
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2) The writing is on the wall for the ACC and we're desperate. The $50 million door that keeps us safe from the wolves is being tested and if it fails, whatever appearance we had left that we're a stable major conference is gone. Louisville is somehow a stopgap for the evaporation process, maybe it makes us appear more stable or competitive while we try to beat UMD over the head to the tune of $50 million or something. I don't know.
Anyway. A good pickup considering the circumstances. Terrible circumstances, IMO.