I feel really bad for the student athletes who will have to cross the country on the regular and keep up with school work and rest. Football is one game a week. Other sports play five or six. This is going to suck for them.

We're on an inevitable path of having one football-only super-conference (maybe 2) with the top 32-48 most lucrative football programs in the country. Most of the programs will come from the SEC and B1G. Maybe a couple from the ACC. Everyone else gets booted to a new second tier that -- hopefully -- gives a rebirth to more sensible geography-based conferences for all sports.

Neither UVA or VT make the cut to the top tier.

Anonymous wrote:Likely getting smaller pieces of the ACC financial pie.

I base this only on FSU making noise for a larger share of the conference revenue...and if Cal and Stanford are added, that further diminishes each existing member's share (unless the financial pie is enlarged due to the addition of the PAC-4 members somehow).

Maybe not ACC, but Big Ten and SEC get more money from expansion. The SEC network is one of the most expensive channels, getting about $2 per subscriber, about the same as Fox News. However, this money is only in states where they have a footprint. Adding Texas A&M and Missouri boosted their cable revenues by tens of millions.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think the ACC is going to fall apart like the PAC 12.

Yes, it will. When you have up to seven schools looking for an exit strategy and two emerging super conferences ready to add to their ranks, then it's only a matter of time.

Maybe a month ago, but more ACC schools resemble Cal and Stanford than Oregon. Unless those 7 have guarantees, the urge to leave appears to have lessened. FSU is throwing its annual tantrum, but the rest have been very quiet

I guarantee you the urge of schools like FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA, Virginia Tech, and NC State has not lessened. The ACC is very unstable.

Who is taking all of those schools? Do you think Stanford thought they would be out the outside looking in?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think the ACC is going to fall apart like the PAC 12.

Yes, it will. When you have up to seven schools looking for an exit strategy and two emerging super conferences ready to add to their ranks, then it's only a matter of time.

Maybe a month ago, but more ACC schools resemble Cal and Stanford than Oregon. Unless those 7 have guarantees, the urge to leave appears to have lessened. FSU is throwing its annual tantrum, but the rest have been very quiet

I guarantee you the urge of schools like FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVA, Virginia Tech, and NC State has not lessened. The ACC is very unstable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think the ACC is going to fall apart like the PAC 12.

Yes, it will. When you have up to seven schools looking for an exit strategy and two emerging super conferences ready to add to their ranks, then it's only a matter of time.

Maybe a month ago, but more ACC schools resemble Cal and Stanford than Oregon. Unless those 7 have guarantees, the urge to leave appears to have lessened. FSU is throwing its annual tantrum, but the rest have been very quiet

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the ACC is going to fall apart like the PAC 12.

Yes, it will. When you have up to seven schools looking for an exit strategy and two emerging super conferences ready to add to their ranks, then it's only a matter of time.

I don't think the ACC is going to fall apart like the PAC 12.

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Anonymous wrote:Likely getting smaller pieces of the ACC financial pie.

I base this only on FSU making noise for a larger share of the conference revenue...and if Cal and Stanford are added, that further diminishes each existing member's share (unless the financial pie is enlarged due to the addition of the PAC-4 members somehow).

FSU makes noise about unequal distribution every year.

They still mistakenly think they are a football powerhouse.

Anonymous wrote:Likely getting smaller pieces of the ACC financial pie.

I base this only on FSU making noise for a larger share of the conference revenue...and if Cal and Stanford are added, that further diminishes each existing member's share (unless the financial pie is enlarged due to the addition of the PAC-4 members somehow).

FSU makes noise about unequal distribution every year.

Anonymous wrote:Likely getting smaller pieces of the ACC financial pie.

I base this only on FSU making noise for a larger share of the conference revenue...and if Cal and Stanford are added, that further diminishes each existing member's share (unless the financial pie is enlarged due to the addition of the PAC-4 members somehow).

WOW! These student athletes in ACC may need to travel to CA to compete? Yikes!

I know Clemsen will likely leave the ACC, is any other school expected to leave? UNC?

Any other school expected to join?

Likely getting smaller pieces of the ACC financial pie.

I base this only on FSU making noise for a larger share of the conference revenue...and if Cal and Stanford are added, that further diminishes each existing member's share (unless the financial pie is enlarged due to the addition of the PAC-4 members somehow).

In the ACC? Where they have been for a long time?

Where does conference realignment put UVA and VA Tech?