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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 427804, member: 430"]
The same guys throwing these doomsday scenarios around are same ones insistent that TV $$ means everything to every school out there and that couldn't be further from the truth.  Just because MD jumped because of that (basically the ACC's version of a crackwhore on the corner), it doesn't mean every single school values that as the #1 reason for conference affiliation.  Its a factor, but some schools aren't going to sell out their academic affiliation or tradition for more TV money. 
 
The Big East implosion was caused by the sheer lack of cohesion of the conference from Day 1 - it was a conference of schools that chose to be together for athletic purposes and really athletic purposes only.  The fact that some of the schools were strong academically was a coincidence, and it had little geographic cohesion (speaking of the FB portion of the conference).  The ACC is a completely different beast - and the only school that really qualifies as being there for athletic purposes first, in my opinion, is FSU.  And the two biggest outliers in the conference, prior to the ACC's first round of expansion, were MD and FSU.  That's why the two of them have been rumored as expansion candidates for other conferences for years.
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