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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2521715, member: 652"] If the ACC doesn’t expand then the Big Ten, SEC carve up the ACC. North Carolina is the king of the ACC. They didn’t want to be a pawn or bishop of another conference. Florida State-Clemson wanted a commitment to football. ACC went with Syracuse because we never sued them and fit the private schools and Pitt because UConn sued them and West Virginia’s academics scared them. Maryland left for the Big Ten because of Debbie Yow. The ACC decided to give a bone to FSU and Clemson and gave them Louisville over UConn. ESPN was going to pay the ACC 14.5 million a dollars a year thru 2024 if the conference didn’t expand that was an underpayment based on the exploding market. Which I believe has popped now but we are safe now. The ACC is now with the margin of the SeC and Big Ten after the network launches in 2 years. We made the right decision. [/QUOTE]