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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 2699392, member: 1145"]
My 'other' team is Notre Dame, because I have Irish ancestry and I am Catholic. And I know all about the very old and very deep ND dislike of the Big Ten, which comes from a history of the Big Ten trying to isolate ND and prevent its growth as a football power.

Notre Dame would be totally insane to ever join the Big Ten, and the ACC finally realized that the only way to to get the Irish into the ACC, and safe from Big Ten pressure, was to allow the partial football membership. When that decision was made, the ACC decided that the second the time was right, Syracuse and Pitt would be invited as teams 13 and 14. The Big 12 talking unofficially to Pitt made the tike right.

If Texas gets to the point that it no longer wishes to keep the Big 12 afloat, it is more likely to be part of the ACC than to go anywhere else. Texas has more than a few administrators who would relish being part of a league with Elite schools on the East Coast, and Texas has a group of sports boosters who like the idea of the Longhorns being like the Cowboys: the TX team in a division of East Coasters.

Specifically, Longhorns football people, all of them, know that an annual Texas-ND game would replace ND-SC as the nation's biggest intersectional game, and that only that game would hurt the SEC and make it pay for having taken A&M and messed up a Texas run conference a second time.
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