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ACC, PAC-12, and BIG alliance / conference realignment

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That's hilarious - it makes the American West look like Connecticut or something.
I mean i guess we aren’t ones to talk since the ACC could give them a run for their money and probably win.
 
WE need Utah, Arizona, and Arizona St, and those 3 all need to be with Cal and Stanford.
Plus one other and go to a 3-division format? Play everyone in your division and one from each of the others?
 
Plus one other and go to a 3-division format? Play everyone in your division and one from each of the others?
If we got those 3, then I can see one of the following; TCU, Colorado, or Houston. TCU would match up well with SMU but Colorado would give the ACCN another state and more $$$.
 
I fully expect that the ACC will make an expansion play in order to increase revenue and hedge against any defections. My two cents is that we add four more schools. Sandiego State, another from Texas with Houston being my choice, Colorado which would be a personal dream school for me and one other school. Other schools that I could see would include Tulane, and of course if we could poach Utah and or the two Arizona school's homerun.
 
Plus one other and go to a 3-division format? Play everyone in your division and one from each of the others?

I don't think they would take both AZ schools. Not sure that it makes sense to.

IMO the dream would be to add San Diego State, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Baylor plus one other. Then you could have:

Stanford, Cal, San Diego State, Arizona State, Utah
Colorado, Kansas, SMU, Baylor, X

Where X could be UNLV, Arizona, TCU, Iowa State but then you might need to shift the divisions around (move Utah over) depending on who you take.
 
If we got those 3, then I can see one of the following; TCU, Colorado, or Houston. TCU would match up well with SMU but Colorado would give the ACCN another state and more $$$.
TCU and SMU are huge rivals going way, way back to Southwest Conference days. The play the Iron Skillet Game (just about) every year.
 
Colorado would be a no-brainer
Why? Is CO known as a state that is in love with college sports or with NFL, MLB, and NBA? Does CO produce large numbers of top recruits? Does UofCO have lengthy ties with Cal or Stanford, or even with Utah, Arizona and Arizona St? Did Colorado Buffs football sit among the top of Pac TV viewers or toward the bottom?

UofCO spent the last year of its days in aPac that was not dead man walking convincing Utah, Arizona,d Arizona Set to leave the the Big 12, its previous home. Before that it had been in the Big 8 since about 1948. So why would Colorado even entertain the ACC unless the Big 12 already were as dead as the Pac had been when Cal and Stanford joined the ACC?
 
TCU and SMU are huge rivals going way, way back to Southwest Conference days. The play the Iron Skillet Game (just about) every year.
And having both of the only two Major conference schools that are located in the entire DFW TV market could prove HUGE for both ACC recruiting and TV viewers.
 
If we got those 3, then I can see one of the following; TCU, Colorado, or Houston. TCU would match up well with SMU but Colorado would give the ACCN another state and more $$$.
Look at the company earnings reports this Q. Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery wrote down their linear TV networks by billions of dollars. Disney's linear network earnings were down almost 25% y/y. ESPN's domestic earnings from were down 9% y/y. The ACCN revenues have peaked with the addition of Texas and California as homes of ACC schools and then revenues are going to decay with cord cutting like all linear channels. In the long run, the ACCN will have to rely on brands as sports moves to streaming, yet the ACC grabbed SMU? Short term thinking again by the ACC.
 

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