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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 290271, member: 636"]
Believe me, I've been championing an East Coast conference being in the best interests of the sport like forever. College basketball got a huge burst thanks to Magic/Bird, but it carried over into the 80s on the backs of the ACC and the Big East and then lost steam in the 90s.
 
Unfortunately, I believe the power players in college athletics are afraid of it happening in football, mainly because it is the media center of the world. So, in some ways, Townie's counter-agrument is correct. In an ACC Armageddon scenario, the East Coast still watches, it just watches SEC games (NC and Va. become SEC states along with Florida and Georgia that they have already) and the northeast watches PSU and ND games. This won't increase the northeast viewership, but it does keep the power in the hands of the SEC and the BiG.
 
SEC is the huge winner in this scenario with the Big 12 a secondary winner. The BiG doesn't gain much in terms of football viewership because even if they take UNC and UVa, those states being southern culture will follow the SEC moreso than the BiG except for perhaps when UNC or Va plays PSU.
 
If Delany sees this as possibility, the BiG might try to return to the ND, Maryland, and two of Pitt, SU, BC, or Rutgers strategy. And I don't like SU's chances in that scenario.
 
But right now, I don't believe the ACC Armageddon strategy plays out. Trying to manuever 10 teams to three different conferences is simply too much effort. Heck, we saw what happened in the summer of 2010 trying to get 6 teams to move to one conference.
 
Cheers,
Neil
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