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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4563327, member: 5685"]
I also think Duke and UNC would have been an issue. Heck they were for the first round of expansion. So at least for step 1 it needed to be small enough to pass but not too large to scare off a school to a No vote. I also think SU was a problem. I don't think we wanted out of the Big East until it was clear that we had to leave.

It would have been so easy to go to 16 in 1992 and rotate divisions, solidifying the conference. But that means going from 9 to 16 schools. The ACC likely has MD still instead of Louisville, and adds Miami, SU, BC, RU, Pitt, WV and then offers Penn State. Do they come? If they say no #16 is Temple I suppose, who was still a good BBall school. VA Tech wasn't any good at that time. Louisville is outside the footprint. Nova wasn't the Nova they have become. UConn wasn't UConn BBall and were FCS in FB.

So the ACC could have had Maryland, West Virginia, Rutgers, and Temple (or maybe Penn State) instead of Louisville and VA Tech.
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