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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 355906, member: 780"]
I have spent a fair amount of time in corporate strategic planning. We tried to guess what the market, product and scemario was going to look like five years out. We had lots of resources, did studies of need, had experts on technology and tracked our competition's every move and investment. And we were always wildly off.
 
You may be right ... but 10 years is a long time for a projection.
 
Actually, I agree with you, that if the current trends continue they'll be in a Conference and is the structure is like it is today it will be the ACC. But things can change radically and rapidly.
 
High and low probabilities could include:
 
A huge change in the structure of college football with the top 48 teams bolting from the NCAA and establishing a new league under new rules. I don't think that's at all improbable.
 
A national movement --- led by the usual suspects --- to ban football because of head injuries or the cost of healthcare associated with head injuries.
 
A huge swing back to ethnic pride in the US in which Catholics fight back and identify more strongly with institutions like Notre Dame.
 
If you had told me years ago that smoking would be border-line illegal, gas would be $4 a gallon, that a significant percentage of young women would have tatoos and that the Sunday NY Times Society pages would have wedding pictures of Bart and Bret together smiling like jackasses eating sticker bushes, I wouldn't have believed  any of it.
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