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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.  [b]Travel costs would go up a bit but not a lot.[/b]  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.

[b]Where I disagree is on the recruiting.  Stanford would be not impacted no matter what they do.[/b]  But as I said above -- [b]travel would not be so bad [/b]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.  [b]And Cal recruiting would expand to the east coast[/b].  Stanford recruiting is already east coast.
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Disagree on all of the bolded statements.

Few, if any, 4 star recruits would consider Cal football under any circumstances. Classes are huge--several classes have 1,000 students at Cal--and the San Francisco area is viewed negatively as a city in decline with severe homeless issues and crazed politicians.

Football recruits think about travel a lot.

Stanford's recruiting would suffer--we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.

Travel costs would be about an extra $10 million per year for Stanford & Cal. If offered, the ACC most likely will only offer a reduced share payout of about $30 million for many years.

Among academics, Cal may have a good reputation on the East Coast for its graduate programs, but Cal is not well regarded in the Southeast US by the typical sought-after football recruit. [/quote]

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