Every time you think conference realignment is over, something crazy happens. That said, between the Big Ten saying they're content with 12 teams, the Big 12 saying they'd like to stick with 10 teams and the ACC now saying they feel "very settled" with 14 teams, perhaps things are indeed beginning to slow down.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Swofford said Friday that the league is "very settled" at 14 members after announcing last month it would add Pittsburgh and Syracuse from the Big East. It's still unclear exactly when those schools would begin play in the ACC. Big East bylaws require a 27-month notice and $5 million exit fee.
That sound you just heard was the remaining Big East football schools weeping.
Since they're settling with 14 teams, the ACC has begun renegotiating its TV deal with ESPN. Earlier this year, the league signed a $1.86 billion deal that gave ESPN and ABC exclusive rights to basketball and football programming. Expect that number to go up and expect Syracuse and Pitt to point to whatever that new number is as the reason they did what they did.
Stay tuned for more conference realignment news.
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If the SEC
Take a team for it’s eastern division, then it will likely be an ACC team
Then the ACC will need a new 14th
by fracas on Oct 7, 2011 6:02 PM EDT reply actions
Or it will be West Virginia
I just don’t see anyone leaving the ACC.
by Lioli44 on Oct 7, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions
There’s only 1 ACC team that would make sense for the SEC, NC State. And they aren’t leaving the ACC. Much more likely that #14 is Mizzou, Louisville, or West Virginia.
by chicagofire1871 on Oct 7, 2011 7:57 PM EDT reply actions
virginia tech?
by fracas on Oct 7, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions
VT is a bit of a possibility
But it’s questionable how much benefit VT would actually get by joining the SEC. They’ve been very successful in the ACC, and they’d probably have a much harder time in the SEC. They would be an outlier in the SEC while they’re right in the middle of the ACC.
It actually makes a lot of logical sense for NCSU to join the SEC, but it’s still unlikely.
I agree that Mizzou, Louisville and WVU have the best shots. Word is that the eastern teams aren’t all sold on Mizzou being #14. That might make WVU or Louisville more likely, or even possibly Cinci.
As much as Louisville’s and Kentucky’s bball coaches hate each other (and also for other reasons), I don’t really expect Louisville to make it into the SEC. They’ve got a better shot at the Big 12, especially if Mizzou sneaks in to the SEC.
Assumption is the mother of all @#%-ups.
by mdak06 on Oct 7, 2011 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions
NC St
really would be a smart move for both the SEC and the ACC.
3 schools in NC is better than 4 NC schools, and then the ACC would be free to replace them with UConn.
by thekevo23 on Oct 8, 2011 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Still not sure if UConn will make it in
BC really, really doesn’t want them in. That doesn’t mean that it won’t happen, but it might make a difference (and supposedly did this time around).
One one hand (as an ACC fan) I’d rather not see the SEC get any presence in North Carolina. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind seeing there be one less North Carolina school in the ACC.
shrugI suspect if NCSU jumped to the SEC, the ACC would at least try to invite Notre Dame into the league first (as an all-sports member). Perhaps ND could join and say “we did it for the Olympic sports” … since the ACC schools are better than the Big East in that regard (basketball’s a toss-up, but the ACC is better for most other sports).
Assumption is the mother of all @#%-ups.
by mdak06 on Oct 13, 2011 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions
oops
I always goof with that
strikeoutthing …Assumption is the mother of all @#%-ups.
by mdak06 on Oct 13, 2011 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions
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