10-23-2013, 01:29 PM
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketba...y-move-acc
Quote:"I was actually thinking to myself one night, 'Our timing is unbelievable: Here we are getting ready for the Big East tournament, and we announce this,' " Brey told ESPN.com. "But the expansion thing had been so dramatic for two years, nothing surprised me. I mean, I was kind of on the edge."
On the edge from describing his program's uncertain future to recruits, to his own players and even to himself.
Shortly after Brey signed a 10-year extension two summers ago, reports had surfaced about a possible Big 12 partnership -- a potential fate that the Maryland-bred coach described as "his worst nightmare."
But conference realignment had long since been going sideways. And Brey remembered taking a facilities tour some two years ago with athletic director Jack Swarbick and women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw.
"We all kind of said, 'If we can get in the ACC, we've got to get there,' " Brey said. "We all said, 'That's the one, let's see if we can pull it off.' And we did, so we're fortunate."
