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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 32451, member: 173"]
Whatever.  The ACC was going to 14 teams for the reasons I put in my original response.   Not inviting UConn after Pitt and Syracuse are already in the ACC doesn't tell us sheet about what the ACC would have done if Pitt and Syracuse declined.   I don't know for sure that they would have invited UConn and Rutgers - but I'm 110% sure they were getting to 14 teams so they could renegotiate their contract with ESPN.

You seem to think that if Syracuse and Pitt said no, the ACC response would have been "golly gee, shucks and darn, I guess we're going to be stuck with this lousy contract that massively underpays us relative to the market.". It's just a flat out idiotic viewpoint.   Lemme help you out - the ACC was getting to 14 teams.  Let me know who you think the ACC would have gone after once Syracuse and Pitt said no.  Some additional help - if they went to Notre Dame, Penn State, or Texas all of them would have said no, too... So if those are your picks scratch them off the list and keep moving down to the next available candidates.  Once you do that, if you aren't completely insane with your selections, you'll see why there wasn't another alternative for Syracuse.  Because absolutely, positively, 100% that two other Big East programs would be celebrating their inclusion in the ACC while we would be trying to figure out how to remain relevant in college athletics right now.
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