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[QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 510549, member: 2043"]
I really hope Virginia turns down the Big Ten if they come calling for the simple reason that we have no history at all with the teams in the Big Ten other than Penn State and Maryland of course.  And we have no affinity at all with the midwest.  It would really suck to give up games against our traditional rivals to go watch football on some cowfield on the tundra of Iowa or Minnesota at 11:00 in the morning.   I'm actually excited to see the new ACC members play Virginia.  We already have a rivalry with Syracuse in Lacrosse.   We've played Pitt a few times in the past decade in football in some good games.  Louisville we haven't played in a while.  And Notre Dame is exciting because it's Notre Dame.  We just got knocked out of the Lacrosse tournament by them this past spring. 
 
The Big Ten will come calling first on AAU member schools.  In the ACC that list is Pittsburgh, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, and Georgia Tech.  They also like contiguous states which makes UVA a target now that Maryland jumped into the fire.  Your point about Maryland fans to games in Tallahassee is valid, but Maryland can't bring fans to College Park for football games.   Forget it much further away.    The ACC is much better off with Louisville IMO.  I won't miss Maryland at all.
 
The ACC needs to find a way to close the gap in revenue between the ACC and the Big Ten.   The quality of the ACC products is not 50% less than the Big Ten by any logic.  The Big Ten is very boring football, and the playoff will showcase it as very overrated as well.  Maryland and Rutgers won't give it any sort of bounce either.
 
I hope the Alliance will work toward closing the revenue gap.  My only worry is that in some of the rural areas there isn't sufficient internet speed for good streaming video.  That's going to have to roll out more to make the digital model fly.
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