If the ACC does eventually get splintered - i don't know how probable it is, but certainly is possible - we need to start forming alliances within the league and outside for a landing spot.
I say call the leadership at UVa and Va Tech, along with NC State, Louisville and SMU. If the Big Integer or SEC really are interested in poaching FSU, Clemson and maybe UNC, let's start looking at new alliances now. Get those institutions and maybe talk to some Big 12 teams - Arizona and Arizona State and maybe Oklahoma State too. Now you've got the DFW market, Phoenix and some of the West Coast, the DC market, the Triangle (and maybe the Triad and Charlotte too), Atlanta and kick the tires on a Florida school. Tell BC, Cuse, Pitt, Cal and Stanford - and Miami too - it was nice knowing you. Louisville brings cachet with its resurgent hoops program. Maybe ask Duke to come along too. Their basketball program does draw eyeballs across the nation.
You've got some good football programs. You've got some good hoops pedigrees. You've got programs with tons of money behind it (SMU and Oklahoma State). You've got some big TV markets. We can give the Arizona/Arizona State/Oklahoma State folks more East Coast exposure.
If the Big Integer and SEC don't want us - or may take us at their barebones terms and not ours, leaving us with scraps from Longshanks table - it's time to start talking to some others who might be in the same boat and form our own fleet.
I just don't see the Big 10 wanting or needing us and screw the SEC. Why not hold talks with other schools about forming a new league?