(05-13-2017 02:43 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(05-13-2017 12:29 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  So if ND comes into the fold, the ACC would need #16, which would likely be UConn.
The question then becomes do we really go to the 4 conference 16-team model?
Texahoma four to Pac-12?
Mizzouri and Kansas to B1G?
WVU, TCU, and Tech to SEC?

In the alternate universe fantasy of Brando's, ND would have some say in who would be #16.

My guess is ND would propose:

1) Navy for football only, and
2) Georgetown for all other sports.


That would allow ND to keep playing Navy every year without using up a valuable OOC slot and fill in the gap, geographically, that the ACC has with Maryland's departure.

It would also satisfy ND's desire to have a better "fit", i.e., to have more schools like itself in the ACC, with Georgetown being Catholic and private.

But, all of this is Brando fantasy, anyway.

Not saying this "couldn't" happen, but it's hard for me to see Georgetown leaving the BE for a partial (and minority) share of the ACC. And that's likely true for Villanova as well. Georgetown has come through the conference re-shuffling as the "alpha-dog" of the Big East.