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Message: [QUOTE="44Warrior, post: 421896, member: 1199"] Here is an out of the box idea about how to strengthen the ACC in all of this conference realignment madness: [LIST=1] [*]Get to 16 Football schools: Schools of preference: Notre Dame, Penn State, Louisville or Connecticut, obviously ND is the grand prize, Penn State would be a huge, huge get. [*]Add 4 basketball/Olympic sports only schools to the league. Georgetown, St Johns, Villanova, pick a fourth. [*]With those football and basketball teams added, now you have a mega east coast conference that would command viewers and large TV contracts. [*]Add Madison Square Garden as your conference tournament destination. [*]Add a ACC network to add revenue. [/LIST] Notre Dame obviously adds immediate credibility and stability with a huge national following. Georgetown captures the DC market and is far more nationally followed basketball program than Maryland. St Johns and Connecticut help capture the NYC market. Louisville is a good nationally recognized program whose football program is improving. Villanova adds the Philly market. Penn State, in spite of its recent turmoil, adds national credibility in football and a large PA TV market throughout the state and alumni throughout the country. Geographically this conference works and can build natural rivalries. Getting to 16 football schools is a must: 4 divisions with 4 schools each, instead of two 8 school divisions. This is critical for scheduling flexibility, easier division cross over scheduling and especially key out of conference games which all big programs want. Getting MSG on board is a no brainer, adding a huge TV market and easier to sell the ACC TV network to this mega population. MSG loves the old Big East conference tournament with Syracuse, Georgetown, St Johns, Villanova. Add Duke, North Carolina and other ACC schools to that mix. Wow! If all of this is done, I think the TV revenue with this Entire east coast TV market captured from BC to Florida, our ACC conference can produce revenue for each school in comparison to the likes of the Big Ten and SEC schools. The ACC president would need to get commitments from network TV of actual $dollars to show the Notre Dames and Penn States that this mega conference would be very lucrative. Those two schools would obviously be the hardest to sell the idea to without actual dollars in place. The ACC needs to get proactive now before we are poached again. Hay, just my 2 cents. Think Big. [/QUOTE]

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