(09-03-2017 05:37 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Missouri doesn't have to leave.

Kansas and Notre Dame head to the Big 10. Why? If we are moving to a P4 and N.D. has to join all in somewhere, they will go for the cash. That's what church schools do. That gives Delany his football brand, control over his city markets in the Northwest and Northeast and make the Yankees very damned happy!

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State join the SEC. Texas, Texas Tech, and T.C.U. join the ACC out right and everybody is happy. The ACC and ESPN let the Irish out of their contract and voila. ESPN owns Texas and Oklahoma outright the same way they own the rest of the SEC and ACC. There's your happy ending. BTW: Texas all in is far more valuable to the ACC (and your regional rights money from Tech & T.C.U. giving you triple dip into Texas) than any darned arrangement for 5 games with a has been private.

Your idea leaves the ACC at 17, assuming ND leaves, which I don't think happens. Unless you take out 1 you'd have to add one to even it out. I'm intrigued by the idea of a Texas pod for the ACC. However, I think if we go with a 4th Texas school I would look to SMU instead of Baylor or Houston. UH gives them another market but they wouldn't penetrate it as much as the SEC with TAMU. Why not just grab as much of the DFW market as possible and bring the Iron Skillet to the ACC?

Or

UT, SMU, WVU and TCU