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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1053497, member: 636"] Now that SU is safely in the ACC, I find that conference realignment isn't quite as meaningful to me as it once was. IF the ACC ever does add another team (regardless of whether or not ND joins full-time or not, since a change in the divisional rule might be on the horizon, 15 can be just as workable as 14), of the realistic candidates I like both UConn and Cincy. I do think UConn has the vastly superior athletics department and deserves it more so than Cincy, but a lot can happen between now and whenever this does happen, indeed - if it ever does happen. As for ND and the ACC/Big 12/Big East partial membership debate in this thread... Let's not forget that ND only wanted 4 games and the ACC wanted 6. The Big 12 supposedly was willing to do the 4 since they only have 10 members with Texas being a permanent partner and ND cycling through the remaining 9 members over a 6 year period. But ND agreed to go to up to 5 games to get into the ACC which they knew in advance was basically going to mean the end of all their mostly regular Big Ten match-ups that BK now laments are gone. That, to me anyway, demonstrates how inconsequential the Big 12's offer for partial membership was to ND. The Big 12 offered them nothing since the Irish could have developed a near-annual game with Texas or even a Texas/Oklahoma combo by keeping their other sports in the Big East. And by doing that they also could have kept those Big Ten games early in the season as well. But ND was willing to sacrifice not only their mostly regular meetings with Michigan, Michigan State, and Purdue but in addition to that sacrifice a shot at a similarly set-up potential annual rivalry with Texas (since it appears they felt their true annual rivalries with Navy, USC, and now Stanford was more important to them) to get their other sports into the ACC. ND has [B][I][U]never[/U][/I][/B] put that much emphasis on their other sports in their entire existence. Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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