Honoring John Swofford's upcoming retirement, let's do a totally unrealistic one.

The ACC has the unusual makeup of 14 football members and 15 in men's and women's basketball. Assuming you have to have two divisions, you practically have to have an even number of teams in the conference. Now you can have an odd number of basketball teams but it isn't that great either. In a given weekend, one team is either off or has to play a non conference game. Ideally the ACC would have an even number of football members and basketball members. Assuming Notre Dame is going to stay a non football member, the only way for the ACC to have an even number of members in both conferences is to add a team in all sports but football.

If the ACC wanted to add a team for men's basketball and totally hurt the Big East ... again, the obvious choice would be Villanova. They'd also add the Philadelphia area to the ACC. They could also add UConn for all sports but football and use it as a carrot for them to improve football, possibly agreeing to 5 (or 3 or some other # of) games vs. ACC opponents a year. Either of them would hurt the Big East, Villanova would make them not a "power" conference in men's basketball. How about adding Villanova, UConn, and Georgetown to get the ACC back into the DC area after Maryland left? Then all those teams would be playing Syracuse again.

If Villanova goes to the ACC and UConn stays, what's the Big East's move? Do they stand pat or do they add another team? Maybe with Villanova out Temple could get into the Big East and do the same as UConn? What other dominos occur?