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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4725281, member: 27"]
We make be seeing the very beginnings of the end game state of the ACC forming now.

It looks like the public schools may be leaving, and maybe they will be replaced by private schools, often with better academics.

If Clemson, FSU, GT, UNC, UVA, UL, NC State and VT leave, I think that clears out all the public school folks from the conference.

You are left with

Syracuse
Wake Forest
Boston College
Duke
Notre Dame* *=(abstaining for football as always)
Pittsburgh (I think it is private; I know it is a grey area type school)

And Miami.  Now Miami is going to go somewhere else because that is what she always does.  Not good with commitments.

But if you add Stanford and Cal (which is a public but one of if not the most selective publics out there) and SMU, you might be looking at most of the ACC circa 2036.  Tulane might make sense at some point.

Who knows, maybe Vandy and Northwestern decide they want to compete with peer schools into of semi pro football factories and also eventually join.  Maybe TCU sometime down the road as well.

The ACC will probably do what they always do here.  I.e. nothing.  But if they do add these schools, I think it is the presidents driving thingS and it might signal a whole new philosophy for the conference.

Maybe the semi pro wannabes in the ACC allow the ACC to add private school replacements now in exchange for a 50% reduction in their exit fees?  Could the ACC schools work together on an exit strategy and a new beginning?  I doubt it but one can dream.
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