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2024 Iggy Award (ACC Tournament Record)
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You can make a good argument that Donna Shalala was the most influential person of the last 40 years in terms of determining how the P5 conferences expanded.
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“I believe that would have happened. Penn State would not have been left out in the cold very long. They would’ve gone someplace, yes. Very likely the ACC.”
Which would have had profound implications on the subsequent conference hopping of the next two decades. Would the ACC have subsequently invited Florida State or Miami? Probably. But Pittsburgh and Boston College. Much less likely. Maybe Syracuse. Would Maryland have left for the Big Ten? Inconceivable. Would Rutgers be in the Big Ten? Hard to fathom how.
As for what Penn State membership in the ACC would mean today, 30 years later, well, you can fill in your own blanks.
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Read all the way to the end.
“I believe that would have happened. Penn State would not have been left out in the cold very long. They would’ve gone someplace, yes. Very likely the ACC.”
Which would have had profound implications on the subsequent conference hopping of the next two decades. Would the ACC have subsequently invited Florida State or Miami? Probably. But Pittsburgh and Boston College. Much less likely. Maybe Syracuse. Would Maryland have left for the Big Ten? Inconceivable. Would Rutgers be in the Big Ten? Hard to fathom how.
As for what Penn State membership in the ACC would mean today, 30 years later, well, you can fill in your own blanks.
How Penn State nearly ended up in ACC: Of Knight and Bo and which Big Ten schools voted “no” in 1990
This is the untold story of PSU's wild 6-month ride toward its hair's-breadth Big Ten confirmation, including exactly which schools didn't want it in, told by one who voted "nay" and two who saved the day.
