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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5347867, member: 1145"]
Not Wake or BC - total waste of time and money, even if done for a dollar.

The simple fact is that the ACC is way behind the 8 ball in all this because we have far too many private schools, too many smaller state schools, not enough state Flagships and Land Grants, and not even a third as many schools with 80K+ stadiums as we need.

What that means is that if either FSU or Clemson leaves, then the ACC as we know it is going to start to collapse. That's why the most stupid thing Syracuse can do is take any stand that FSU and Clemson find detrimental to them. The ACC can lose Syracuse and not miss a beat, but the ACC must keep both FSU and Clemson because losing one means both are gone, and so will UNC and UVA and Miami and anybody else who can get into either SEC or BT.

In that case, what is left of the ACC will be worth less to TV than is the current Big 12. ESPN then would fold up the ACCN and merge what it can with the SECN. The remaining ACC (meaning those who could not get into the Big 12) would be a peer of the new Pac.

The ACC can survive at full strength, but it will take the league office and the least valuable members acting very wisely and carefully. I think it will require league membership pruning, and replacement with large state schools, for ESPN to cough up better money and so stabilize things.
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