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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 45940, member: 780"]
ESPN's coverage of ACC and BE Basketball Media Days are a treasure trove of information on Realignment.

Marinatto said that the $10M exit penalty wouldn't dissuade anyone from exiting. The teams need to have enthusiasm for the new Conference and that's what he hopes will hold them.

Swofford said that ACC is perfectly happy to stay at 14.

Roy Williams and Coach K are sincerely thrilled to have Pittsburgh and SU in the ACC. They think it will be great for the conference. It makes the ACC the best basketball conference. It fills in the geography between Maryland and BC. These two guys believe that there's a good chance the ACC will go to 16. They alluded to this a couple of times.

Even thought else are basketball guys and you'd expect it from them, basketball was ---and will continue to be --- one of the big drivers of this expansion. If you have bought into "Football is driving the bus" as if it was all that was important, you need to rethink that. It's causing you to misunderstand what is going on and what is likely to happen in the future.

Swofford and the BB coaches didn't say this, but based on what they did say, you can see why ND and UConn as a package is so plausible.

Rutgers's pathetic basketball program means they are relegated to whatever Mid-Major Conference they end up in.

Coach K said that he had talked to Boeheim and that JB's take was this move to the ACC is going to help all the SU sports.
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