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RE: What ifs of realignment: the ACC goes to 12 in 1991
(03-07-2018 02:11 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  
(03-06-2018 09:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  ACC going to 10 with Penn State and Florida State would have really changed a great deal.

I don't think Penn State was on the menu.

Penn State alums were reluctant to join a Northern, football-first conference, that was full of aspirational peers (i.e., schools that Penn State would love to be considered a peer to, but in reality they weren't quite there yet) such as Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin.

You really think Penn State would have wanted to join a Southern, basketball-first conference, where the average school had way less than half as many students as them?

Correct. They joined the Big Ten on December 15, 1989, setting off the realignment dominoes for the 1989-1991 round of realignment.
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