(07-10-2019 03:28 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(07-10-2019 11:29 AM)ArQ Wrote:  

(07-09-2019 09:39 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(07-09-2019 08:10 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The 2010-2013 expansion seems so pedestrian when compared to the early-mid 90s. You had schools like Penn St, Florida St, Miami, Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, and ND (Olympic Sports) making big moves. The last round fell short of that level of drama.

So far all of the moves have been to set up future moves. This next time around, if movement starts, it will be made as if they are final moves and not set up moves. To reach Texas and possibly North Carolina the SEC took bridge states in '92. In 2012 the SEC got one of their prizes with A&M and set the Northwest corner of the conference with Missouri.

When the Big 10 took Penn State they got a solid add but one which was a bridging move to the Northeast. Maryland bridges to the MidAtlantic and Rutgers was a market move.

The ACC expanded a bit more rapidly. First they took the schools they suspected the SEC might have an interest in: Miami, Virginia Tech, Florida State. Boston College was a bridge to the schools they knew the SEC would not be taking. In their next move they took Syracuse and Pitt which helped to land Notre Dame as a partial.

The PAC expansion has been a bridge building attempt toward new time zones.

The Big 12 has been defensive adding only enough to keep the TV contract viable.

Next time out the Big 10 and SEC will move on the prizes of Oklahoma and Texas with hopes of both and fallback positions designed to land at least one.

The ACC may wait until the Big 10 and SEC dust settles before deciding who to grow with again.

ACC realignment is almost complete. There are almost no pieces that will interest ACC. The only few ones that ACC may take is Notre Dame (full), Penn State and Maryland. ACC will not even take Rutgers.

The ACC is definitely not going to pry anyone loose from the Big Ten, especially not Maryland, even if they actually wanted them back.

Landing ND as a full member is a worthy goal, if somewhat lofty. If the ACC were smart, it would add WVU as #16. They should have been #12, TBH. But the ACC is not smart.

The ACC used the old hammer and anvil tactic: strike from the north and squash ‘em in the middle.