(06-27-2020 08:39 AM)panite Wrote:  

(06-26-2020 09:33 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-26-2020 08:07 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-26-2020 01:23 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  How did Jurich get Louisville from C-USA to the ACC? Money baby. LOTS of it. Truckloads of it.

Not only that, but even with the truckloads of money that the YUM Center deal and their boosters provided, Louisville was still the sixth and last Big East team to get a rescue to a P5. They didn't leave on the last train out, by the time they were picked up the last train had seemingly already left, and inexplicably someone ordered a special diesel to go back and scoop them up from G5 purgatory. They scored that saving goal deep in stoppage time.

IOW's, a big dollop of luck in addition to a big dollop of money. That might be hard for any current G to duplicate.

But it certainly wasn't academics and it certainly wasn't "behavior." Pitino and Petrino? If somehow the Big 12 had taken Lousiville, WVU would now be in the ACC.

WV would still be in the B-12 if L'Ville as a package. The question is who would have been number 12. UConn would have grabbed the last brass ring to the ACC then.

Cincy. UConn was only getting in the ACC if the football first schools left.