(04-22-2015 03:31 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 05:47 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 03:51 PM)opossum Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 11:18 AM)orangefan Wrote:  If Texas eventually wants to move, it will have its choice among the B1G, SEC, P12 and ACC. The ACC's only advantage in such a competition would be its ability to offer partial membership a la Notre Dame, which would allow Texas to make its own national deal for football.

I don't think we'd take more than one partial/transitional member at a time.

I think that the ACC might do that for Texas. It would be a smart move, in my opinion.

Smart for whom? What's in it for Texas? Except for football, all of their teams would be in a conference whose members range from a minimum of about 850 miles away to nearly 2000 miles away. That's a lot of travel, even for Texas. And in none of those sports would Texas have any kind of rivalry interest with their opponents and vice versa. And how interested would fans in the ACC markets be in a network devoted to all things UT? Or do you believe that Texas would share the LHN with their new friends?

Frankly, I'd just as soon not have anything to do with Texas unless they came to the ACC as a package deal with three other excellent football programs.

I think if Texas did come, it would be exactly like the ND deal.....Texas sports, specifically basketball, would benefit a lot

They would want to keep their network though, and stay indy in football. And why not have a deal like that? With the lingering threat of the Big 10 and SEC picking off ACC teams down the road, why not bring in schools who'd have an incentive in keeping a functional ACC