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Message: [QUOTE="texascpa, post: 418099, member: 468"] PURPLE Book Cat[SIZE=1] [URL='http://www./content.asp?SID=1014&CID=149847'][IMG]http://vmedia./images/forum/badge/rr47.gif[/IMG][/URL] Post #[URL='http://northwestern./rfFan.asp?Post=0&User=1872279']1200[/URL] Chicago [IMG]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_dy-W-4YpgtU/SklM10wV8oE/AAAAAAAAAD8/RJkPUz8US5g/s64-c/NUFanatic.jpg[/IMG] [URL='http://northwestern./rfFan.asp?User=1872279']MyFanPage[/URL] [URL='http://northwestern./rfEdit.asp?Page=5&Update=5&Add=1872279']Add Buddy[/URL] [URL='http://northwestern./mbignore.asp?user=1872279&action=add']Ignore[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][B]Target: ACC[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=1][FONT=verdana][B][SIZE=2][FONT=verdana][B]Reply[/B][/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] We're inching closer to the fascinating final chapters. The target dates have not changed since last year. Jim Delany has in the shadows amassed his resources as the chatter surrounding expansion died down. Football season, for each of the past several years, has provided a convenient cover for Delany to manouver. In the past few months, the major networks and the heads of the three most powerful conferences have solidified their plans. Simply put, the SEC, the PAC and the B1G will make up the three 16 team super-conferences. Everyone else will play in on their own. This is where the B1G stands today: Texas wants in, Notre Dame does not - yet. Delany has successfully dismantled the Big Twelve to the brink of collapse. Delany expects two of WVU, North Carolina, FSU and Miami to move to the SEC. Delany over the past several months has had ongoing discussions with Syracuse, North Carolina, Georgia Tech and Maryland. Two of these four will likely follow Texas and Notre Dame to the B1G. The evaluation of these schools has ranged from facilities planning to alumni success. Internal speculation is that Georgia Tech and Maryland are the favorites at this point. Rutgers continues to attempt to force the situation, but is not a preferred choice. The breakup of the ACC now serves one purpose: to separate Notre Dame's key decision makers from their resolve and ability to stay independent. Until the 5 game schedule with the ACC, many at ND were increasingly supportive of a move to the B1G. The insane deal that the ACC gave to ND made some of those people believe that ND could have its cake and eat it too. Delany wants to squash that immediately. He will stop at nothing to break up the ACC to force ND back into the discussion. He will have help. Pay attention to the SEC. Silve owes Delany for A&M. Also less directly for Mizzou. Florida State should be the first domino to fall. Put it this way: Silve is Stalin, Delany is Roosevelt. Neither shares the same dogmas, but both know that the only way to win the war is to work together. This will be fun to watch. [I] [/I] [I][/I] [I][/I] [I]This post was edited on 11/19 9:27 AM by PURPLE Book Cat[/I] [/QUOTE]

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