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Message: [QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5467241, member: 10528"] Maybe. I think it all depends on who gets left behind. If the B1G/SEC are truly looking at this as the prime candidates are Notre Dame and North Carolina... then the optics of taking North Carolina to cause concern about destroying the ACC has to weigh on Notre Dame a bit. I know non-football sports do not matter, but think of what UNC and UVa going to the B1G would do for ACC lacrosse. Down to just Syracuse and Duke. if UNC and Virginia went to the SEC, the ACC would probably let them keep lacrosse with the ACC. But not if they go B1G. I am not sure how this applies across the board. Would the Big East take back Notre Dame's non-football sports? Perhaps. If so, then not much need for ND to join the B1G or SEC. Stay in the ACC until a shift to Big East. So maybe the B1G takes UNC and Florida State. I am not sure that the SEC has any reason to make a move at all. If so, that leaves Clemson, SMU, Miami, etc. If the SEC beats the B1G to the punch and grabs UNC and Florida State, and the B1G could take Virginia and Clemson... that would be pretty bad., but I am not sure that Georgia Tech and Duke would be immediately necessary grabs for the SEC. So that would leave an ACC with: Miami, SMU, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Duke, Va Tech, NC State, Pitt, Syracuse, BC, Wake Forest, Stanford, and Cal. Not too shabby academically or athletically. Add UConn get to 14. And then let Tulane and Memphis pitch for spot 15 (to encourage Memphis to get its $200M together to fund the ACC) and perhaps (with 15+ND) ESPN keeps the contract in place. With $300M from the exit fees and $200M from Memphis, that is a jolt of funds to the schools remaining. Frankly, if I am the rest of the ACC, I am approaching Memphis with a deal for them if the forego media rights and pay $300M over 5 years (they offered Memphis $200M). And then the other schools agree to give most of that to FSU and Clemson (and maybe UNC) to agree to let Memphis join AND stay 5 more years after Memphis joins. $60M a year from Memphis supporters could be $15M each to FSU/Clemson, $10M to North Carolina, and $20M to the remaining schools. If the schools agree to that, then the B1G and SEC would need to give full shares for those three schools to lure them away. If they can get full shares and leave, so be it... the funds can be diverted to the remaining teams in the conference. The crappy thing would be any of those schools leaving for partial shares. That makes it too easy for the SEC/B1G to expand. [/QUOTE]

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