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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 428379, member: 27"] If this happens, I would assume the primary crossover rivals for the ACC for football would remain the same, with Louisville slipping in for Maryland as Pitt's rival. We would remain with Boston College. I don't know what the ACC is going to do for basketball scheduling. The approach they were going to use doesn't work with an odd number of teams. I suspect that the ACC will end up using a scheme very similar to what the Big East has done for years, where the teams favored to do well play tougher schedules, which maximizes the number of prospective attractive matchups for TV, which should maximize TV revenue. That would be bad news for lesser programs like Wake Forest and Clemson, who will not play against schools like UNC and Duke nearly as much. On the positive side, they will have easier schedules than the top programs and will have an easier road to qualifying for the NCAA tournament. For Syracuse, this kind of a scheme would be great; instead of having to play an awful BC program twice a year, we will see the best ACC programs regularly from day one. I hope it happens. Regarding UConn, they are getting into the ACC. I think the thing holding them back is the lack of another attractive school to join with them. If I had my way, the ACC would take the Huskies with Navy. Navy would only play football, so in effect, the ACC would be the first conference to get to 16 members. That would address the mistake the ACC made inviting BC to the conference and plug the gap in the DC area left by the departure of Maryland. I wonder if the reason the ACC stopped at 14 this time was because there really is a chance ND will join for all sports in the near term. If that is the case, they wouldn't bring in Navy as a football only...they would wait until ND joined for all sports and invite the 16th school only then. That would explain all the talk about an all sports channel and ND. Maybe the money and timing will finally be right for ND to become a full time member of a conference. Wait a sec. Did I really suggest ND might be a shining knight that would rescue UConn from the Island of Unloved Toys and beat off the invading armies of the B1G, SEC and Big 12 with a single swipe of a mighty shillelagh? Forget it. Temporary insanity. But I do like the word shillelagh. [/QUOTE]

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