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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4252390, member: 1145"] The questions would be: which Big 12 members are worth the most to the ACC considering distance, and would ESPN pay for that expansion? Only schools like ND and Texas can be 'islands' a large distance from the main conference (and in the ACC, IN borders KY, which borders VA, which means that ND is in a contiguous state). So if the ACC added to get into the extremely valuable state of TX, we'd need to add at least 2 schools there and perhaps 4 total in the area (say, Baylor, TCU, TTU, and Ok St - which has a billionaire booster whop would pay big time to get Ok St into a better conference) in order to make an presence in TX. But I doubt that ESPN would cough up a nice raise for all of us now and pay 4 Big 12 guys as well. As strange as it may sound to many, WVU and TTU will now be tied for 2nd largest stadium in the Big 12 (a bit behind Iowa St), and WVU has the most passionate football fan base of those 3. WVU also has meaningful history with Pitt, VT, and Syracuse, and history with Miami and BC and a bit of history with Louisville. WVU fans would travel to the extremes of Boston and Miami better than any ACC school. WVU fans would make certain that any games at UVA, UNC, NCSU, and Louisville would sell out or come very close to doing so. If WVU were to make the ACC Championship, you could count on at least 35K WVU fans itching to travel to Charlotte. Cincinnati would be valuable because [I]location, location, location! [/I]OH is 5th in the nation (behind FL, TX, CA, and GA) in producing D1 football players, and Cincinnati is OH's #2 state school and its #2 football program. Cincy has very valuable things that WVU lacks: a large local TV market, a very large state, a state loaded with major conference talent. [/QUOTE]

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