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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 33511, member: 173"]
If I'm Gross with an offer in my hand from the ACC, I can't afford to gamble that the ACC has nowhere else to go - I need to jump at the offer because if I guess wrong and the ACC picks up two other Big East programs... Syracuse is then flat out screwed.  I think the whole "we've gotten requests from ten schools" thing was nonsense from the ACC in an effort to appear to have a stronger hand than they did.

I also think the ACC was getting to 14 teams no matter what..if Syracuse said no, the ACC would have swallowed hard and offered Rutgers, or West Virginia, or maybe even UConn.  I know what people keep saying about BC, but BC knows the value of a dollar and if the only way from BC to get more dollars was to offer UConn...BC would make the right business decision and bury the hatchet.   If Syracuse said no we'd probably be on the outside looking in wishing we took the ACC offer...and even if that's not true it was still way to big of a risk to take to say no.
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