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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1076864, member: 628"]
It'll be a slow change, and merely adding a school in upstate NY, a school in western PA, and a school in Indiana (w/o the full-time presence of it's most popular sport) doesn't make the ACC a truly east coast conference, no matter what the marketing shills might say.

As with most things conference realignment, I think the ACC took a half-hearted approach that left them unable to [I]truly[/I] become the Pac-10 of the east coast.  Unfortunately I don't think any of the members back in 2002 had the stomach to be that bold, nor were they even in 2011.

If Swofford didn't have to appease the conservative membership, then the play would have been to add: Miami, BC, SU, Pitt, Rutgers, UConn and VaTech.  A 16 team, all-sports conference that actually would have owned just about every major athletic program, market, and state on the east coast (save for Philly, which you need Penn State to land).

But college administrators don't think that way, they're scared of their own shadow basically, while being greedy and self-interested.  So you end up with the silly mish-mosh of conference membership that we have today.
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