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Message: [QUOTE="ACCBballFan, post: 33240, member: 1278"] [SIZE=4]I was not proposing going that far to 18 in Bball and 15 in football. UCONN makes that odd number of football team untenable, and just tees off the ACC Football schools, few as there are.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Since neither G-town nor Nova is any good in football at moment, even I would not propose BBall only for the two of them without Notre Dame and one of them, not both.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Notre Dame does not need the $$ and could just share in the Bball revenue. Having only 2 of the 16 as Bball only does not give ND and Nova a voting block against the other 14 like the 8 Bball only teams have in BE over 7 football schools. Not sure what the ND BE deal is, but had assumed the ACC and ND could come to similar agreement and ND would again be in the premier BBall conference.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]On the question on why even consider ND Bball only, since football drives these expansions, not Bball, or academics that are merely tie breakers and deal breakers respectively. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]I would do anything I could to get ND to think ACC eventually in football, rather than B1G longer term in football, and thought of this as an interim enticer to get them quasi-hooked on ACC by building some ACC rivalries.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]For same reasons, B1G would have loved to have added MD from ACC and Pitt from BE to appease PSU and entice ND.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]ACC just beat B1G to the punch. IMO Adding Cuse and Pitt was not a Bball move, only a side benefit that also fit nicely academically. It was an interim football move to out maneuver B1G on ND and PSU long term, really long term.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]In retrospect, [B]having a life line for ACC Bball only might also help Notre Dame retain its football independence even longer[/B] than if BE further implodes after West VA or UL go to another conference. I don't think UCONN has anywhere to go without ND, nor Rutgers without ND to B1G or to ACC.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]If BE adds more weak Bball schools to up its football numbers like Air Force, UCF, and SMU to go with USF, TCU, Seton Hall, Rutgers, Providence and Depaul, then 9 of its 18 Bball teams are bad. Then when they split into 2 divisions, Notre Dame and West VA might have to be west/central like Lousivile and Cincy and Marquette, further separating ND from UCONN, St, John's, Nova and G-town plus the necessary Rutgers, Seton Hall and Providence, and its alumni on east coast.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][URL]http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7051020/presidents-chancellors-give-commissioner-ok-expand-big-east-conference[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][U]ND would not think twice about leaving BE Bball only once it makes its football decision[/U] (actually think there are a few sports besides BBall, just not football) and[U] ND may feel the same way about ACC Bball only[/U], if its football preference way down the road is B1G.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]If Notre Dame long term choice would be ACC anyway, why potentially elongate their football independence?[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]So [B]maybe its not an enticer at all, just a give away - an idea to consider but then reject[/B].[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]The posters have spoken. BBall only is voted off the ACC island. All Sports or none in ACC, no in-between.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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