(02-16-2015 06:54 PM)Crimsonelf Wrote: If this conference loses another school it's over. Anyone from Virginia, N. Carolina (minus maybe Wake), the ACC could lose the Cards and survive. BC, I guess. Pitt & Cuse... don't really know. But FSU/Clemson-- Yes, definitely. This conference is over at that point.
Scenario: UVA decides they are thru w/ the ACC and split to the Big-wankin-10.... why does VT hang around?
Conclusion: they don't, they bolt for the SEC.
At which point UNC has a big decision to make, Big10 or Sec... Clemson and FSU are likely off to the Big-12. NO ONE is going to wait around for this conference to 'officially' become the new BE!
No-no, any further defections w/ the exception of a small group of schools and there likely won't be a vote on replacements as it's lights out for this conference. And in such a situation as that, why would everyone who can get out, not do so right then and there and liquidate the conference so they don't have to pay exit fees, lose their tourney moneys, and bowl $$$ ?
Heck, If I were counsel for any of these schools with other options I would be recommending just such a move. Otherwise a bunch of vagrant squatters will move into the near-empty structure and begin demanding millions. Happened in the Big East, the schools that departed left tens of millions behind to those Pawn Stars. In this conference, the schools could be sued for hundreds of millions.
Best to hope no one else leaves, or it's open season and some folks are NOT going to find a chair when this music stops. Final Four conference have arrived & those unlucky schools are literally going to find themselves in Cusa 4.0
Odd how the last one's invited to the ACC would think they know what would break up the ACC. I guess that's because Louisville has never been in a stable conference bouncing from the Metro to CUSA to the Big East.
The ACC, especially the core of the ACC - UNC, NC State, UVa, VT, Clemson, and are all original members of the Southern Conference, that formed in 1921. UNC, NC State, UVa, and VT were members of the predecessor to that - the SAIAA that formed in 1907. Duke joined the SoCon in 1928. When the SEC teams left in 1933, WF joined in 1937. The formation of the ACC was MD, Duke, and Clemson kicking out VT and West Va over football policy. South Carolina left in 1971. Maryland left in 2014. The new additions, not originally in the So-Con are FSU 1991, Miami 2003, BC 2004, Pitt and Syracuse 2011, ND 2012 and you in 2014.
There are 8 former Southern Conference members - this is the core of the current conference. No one in that core is going anywhere else.
The MD situation was unique. MD had mismanaged the University for decades since Len Bias' death. They had come under withering competition from professional sports in Baltimore and DC. They hired and promoted people directly connected to Ohio State, and other Big 10 schools who stated a direct preference to pull MD into the B10 and did so blindsiding their own board of trustees.
UVa is not MD. UVa is rich, and MD is a pauper in comparison. UVa remains as much southern as it is eastern, something MD was no longer. Most of all, UVa knows it can't compete in football in the B10 and being able to compete matters to UVa, it also matters to UNC. Those two are going no where.
Clemson and FSU are going nowhere because they can't get an SEC invite because they don't add anything outside the SEC footprint. As much as they might *****, they are the big dogs in ACC football, in the SEC they would be just one of the pack chasing Alabama.
Don't worry about the ACC until someone connected to UVa, UNC, NC State, Duke, WF, or VT says there is something to worry about.
If you hear it from UVa, UNC, State, Duke or VT, and someone confirms it from WF, you can then take it to the bank. Never forget WF knows all.