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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 639615, member: 636"]
Not quite what happened. Representatives from the Big East, with the knowledge of the other football teams, met with representatives of the ACC in 97 and then again in 98 about a possible merger in football, the then ACC 9 and what was going to be the BE 7 (since Temple had already been given notice their federated membership was in danger) to possibly create the first 16 super-conference for football only.  Each league would remain separate and distinct for all other sports.
 
[url]http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-05-24/sports/0305240264_1_tranghese-acc-s-commissioner-swofford[/url]
 
As a result of that meeting, the ACC went away knowing they didn't want to go that large even if it were for football only and began thinking about how many they did want to expand with 10 or 12 and what schools besides Miami they would want from the Big East.
 
In 2003 Les Robinson either honestly misremembered the meeting or was so irate at Tranghese's "moral outrage" at Swofford in and the ACC in 2003 that he purposely tried to twist it and make it appear that Tranghese only offered Miami, SU, and BC but there is no way the Goose was going to do that to Pitt. 
 
Now had the ACC shown interest in the proposal, it wouldn't surprise me if 2 of WVU, VT, and RU would also be sacrificed, but again, no way would Mikey have left Pitt out in the cold for football, even though the program was in downward spiral at that time.
 
Cheers,
Neil
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