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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 4735399, member: 6535"]
I keep thinking about this and it feels like there could be a deal to be made here. It's inevitable to lose FSU and Clemson, and probably a couple others. They don't want to help the conference add teams because they don't want to get stuck there longer. The conference needs to add teams because it's going to lose them.

What the ACC really needs is to hold onto those teams for long enough to secure itself as the third strongest conference, which doesn't have to take 10+ years. They need to keep those teams while they add the likes of Stanford, SMU, ???, ???, and give those schools a chance to throw absurd amounts of money at their football programs to build them up.

If the ACC threw FSU and Clemson a bone and knocked a few years off their exit, I'd have to think they would be a lot more amenable to voting yes on expansion. Whether or not there's a sweet spot that works for everyone is the question. It's even possible you could cut a deal with the B1G and SEC for the third seat at the playoff table when the dust settles, and in exchange they can pick off the ACC schools they want sooner. A smaller seat than those two super conferences, but a bigger seat than the also-rans.
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