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Regarding the possible move of Cal & Stanford to the ACC: The only justifiable reason for the ACC to offer Cal & Stanford would be to attract Notre Dame to the ACC as a full football member. Otherwise, the additional travel costs would effectively lessen each ACC member's payout.

If Stanford & Cal joined the ACC, it is likely that both football programs would deteriorate as football player recruits would shun both schools as no player would want to endure constant cross-country travel--not even for a "free" Stanford degree.

At this point, the options for Stanford & Cal are bleak as even the Big 12 Conference has indicated that it is done with expansion.

I doubt that Stanford & Cal will drop their respective football programs, but neither football program could survive as an independent.[/quote]

Your first sentence is right.  This only works with ND coming in now or in the next couple of years.  But the time is likely now.  Travel costs would go up a bit but not a lot.  And I think other west coast schools would come in so it would only be 2-3 trips east a year.  Right now both schools do 1-2 so not a big increase.

Where I disagree is on the recruiting.  Stanford would be not impacted no matter what they do.  But as I said above -- travel would not be so bad and that is not among the top 45 things a high school recruit thinks about.  they would be thinking about playing ND, FSU, Miami, and Clemson and dreaming of national championships.  And Cal recruiting would expand to the east coast.  Stanford recruiting is already east coast.
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