CBSSports: ACC has received applications from SU and Pitt

[PhatOrange]

then shredded the only viable competition (the BE), by raiding 2 of its bedrock programs. Brilliant.
Just Syracuse alone would've been a mortal blow, but by those two PROACTIVE manuevers, the ACC is now looking solid as a rock.

Meanwhile in Providence, Marinotta is scheduling more seminars regarding expansion, while the ACC is robbing his house. I don't want to be associated with a conference thats short-sighted, stubborn, & slow.
Unfortunately, thats today's BE.

This has been talked about for a long time. To get ND to bite you have to destroy the BE. ND needs a place to put all their other sports, and a conference like CUSA isn't going to fly.

I think slamming Big East leadership at this point isn't fair. Their hands are tied and there really isn't anything they can do. It's no secret that schools like Kansas/Mizzou/KSU have open invitations to join. No schools that would make the conference better want in. The BE has no options, the leaders are in their bunker, surrounded and they're out of ammunition. It's over.

 

[Toga]

I heard ACC stops at 14. Texas and ND join the conference as non-football members. Each pledge 4 games a piece with ACC teams every year, and ESPN renegotiates the ACC contract. The real reason we are going to the ACC is ESPN knows the Big East wasn't going to resign with them and so they destabilized the league before it could go on the free agent market with 9 teams and potentially Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas State as well.

Well now That is an interesting point about ESPN and fits in with confirmation that the ACC/ESPN contract can indeed be reworked if the composition of the league changes. Not convinced the ACC would admit non-football members but if the money is right who knows?