Expansion

[eaglejacket98]

So 2 PAC remnants keep the PAC alive with Pacific-Atlantic Conference.

 

[stinger78]

Panama Canal

 

[RoanokeJacket]

Coast Soap Conference, with advertising tie-in

We will clean you anywhere!

 

[GTce93]

They’re gonna have to come up with another name for ACC how can it remain Atlantic coast with 2 west coast and a Texas team wtf

The “Any Coast Conference” ??

 

[covingtonjacket]

I think from the ACCs perspective, we needed the additions to keep the 3 schools actively working against the conference from destroying our media deals. My understanding is that if the conference drops below 15, ESPN can renegotiate. Redoing that deal sans Clemson, FSU, and UNC would vaporize the ACC. With the west coast schools, either the 3 traitors are locked in until the 2030s per the GOR or they leave and ESPN is over paying for the rest of the ACC until the contract is up.

 

[Yooperbuzz]

Among the 133 FBS schools in the US News & World Report Best University rankings, by adding Stanford, Cal, SMU, (counting Notre Dame) the ACC will have 17 of the 40 best schools, the top 2, 4 of the top 7, and 8 of the top 15.

 

[LagrangeJacket]

So 2 PAC remnants keep the PAC alive with Pacific-Atlantic Conference.

Oregon State and Washington State will have their own conference. 2-PAC.

 

[WracerX]

Does this mean WSU and OSU hold the rights to the old PAC10 games?

 

[Big Bubba Ray]

 

[gtGreg768b]

Interesting take on SMU from the Arkansas perspective: https://www.si.com/college/arkansas...cal-smu-lashlee-musselman-sec-realignment-acc

 

[donsue]

Interesting take on SMU from the Arkansas perspective: https://www.si.com/college/arkansas...cal-smu-lashlee-musselman-sec-realignment-acc

I would call that quite a stretch

 

[gtGreg768b]

I would call that quite a stretch

Maybe, but SMU has irrefutably been a threat in the past

 

[JJacket]

Well, as much as I despise UNC, they bring up good points about the non-revenue sports.

Fold non revenue sports. Problem solved

 

[JJacket]

Certainly the ACC will put us in the pod with these 3.

So? Easy from Atlanta to Dallas, with SMU being about 20 miles from the airport. Palo Alto/Berkeley (pretty much the same trip) is further, but not a bad flight.

I doubt scheduling would put all three as away games for any one team. There are a lot of teams in the ACC now +ND. I'm guessing ND will request Stanford every season.

 

[JJacket]

Interesting take on SMU from the Arkansas perspective: https://www.si.com/college/arkansas...cal-smu-lashlee-musselman-sec-realignment-acc

but the long line of SMU boosters who have been dormant waiting for a moment like this are the bosses of all those big boosters who have been floating the checks down in Austin and College Station.

That's some rich dudes

 

[Supersize that order mutt]

So? Easy from Atlanta to Dallas, with SMU being about 20 miles from the airport. Palo Alto/Berkeley (pretty much the same trip) is further, but not a bad flight.

I doubt scheduling would put all three as away games for any one team. There are a lot of teams in the ACC now +ND. I'm guessing ND will request Stanford every season.

I have no problem with the additions, but there is no way in hell I will go to San Francisco for any reason these days.

 

[BuzzinWreck78]

I have no problem with the additions, but there is no way in hell I will go to San Francisco for any reason these days.

It's probably the SMU and Va Tech guys who will be excited to go somewhere that you can legally crap on the sidewalk!

 

[rain]

Yeah a stretch for sure

 

[TechRush]

Among the 133 FBS schools in the US News & World Report Best University rankings, by adding Stanford, Cal, SMU, (counting Notre Dame) the ACC will have 17 of the 40 best schools, the top 2, 4 of the top 7, and 8 of the top 15.

Best in foosball? Does anything else matter?

 

[gtg970g]

I have no problem with the additions, but there is no way in hell I will go to San Francisco for any reason these days.

Palo Alto is a half hour from SF. Not many junkies, lots of tech bros.