(02-28-2014 07:42 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  June 1998 John Swofford and Mike Tranghese meet in Atlanta to discuss Big East football teams to the ACC and establish an all basketball Big East http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/storie...4915.shtml

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Quote:...a meeting was held in Atlanta in 1998, in which Tranghese talked with ACC commissioner John Swofford -- among others -- about the possibility of forming an all-basketball Big East Conference.

In order to do that, the Big East would have allowed Miami, Syracuse and Boston College to join the nine-member ACC.

"From those talks, we considered the three [schools]," Robinson said. "But the ACC ain't getting that large. It's too big and too large....

This was the big mistake made by the ACC - not to go to 12 as soon as the SEC and Big 12 did it. If the ACC ever collapses it can all be traced to this one mistake, IMHO.