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Message: [QUOTE="marmstr3, post: 4477905, member: 8841"] From a fan perspective, I think most would prefer to play in the ACC. A lot of us are tired of the Big 12 brand of football and tired of these air raid doosh coaches. In a perfect world, WVU plays in an eastern conference that is third in revenue. Syracuse will always be fine and have a home, but I think the musical chair conference game took a toll on a lot of the fans. The worst case scenario in a lot of peoples minds was WVU ending up playing in American conference and not getting the huge TV contracts to keep up. WVU was just lucky to have a home in the B12 (probably wouldnt have happened if not for Ollie Luck and his texas connections). Its bittersweet because had we not gone to b12, I do think we would have landed in ACC from what i understand. However, i dont think UNC or Duke would ever be on board. The reality of the situation is that the BIG and SEC rule the roost and the rest of us have to just sit back and see just how much they want to expand. It is an arms race right now between the two conferences and nobody really knows the future. There is room for a third lesser conference made up of leftovers. Will that be some kind of hodge podge of B12 and ACC? that is what i would assume at some point. Big 12 was able to secure a pretty big TV contract (much more than plugged in WVU ppl that I talk to anticipated). I could go on and on about expansion, WVU has talked with SEC and ACC for over a decade now. Heres how it breaks down - it is just as much Fox vs ESPN as it is SEC vs BIG. CBS has kind of taken a back seat by choice. Fox owns Big Ten and has very little interest in the remaining Pac teams. Pac is in a very very bad situation, ESPN has been made whole by SEC , B12 and ACC, they have little interest in Pac as well. ACC is in a very very tough spot as well , ESPN signed ACC to a very network friendly deal. ACCs only way out of that deal would be for more expansion. ESPN has zero reason to approve a ACC to SEC expansion. It just would not make sense financially and could even back fire because that would allow ACC to renegotiate the current ESPN deal. If BIG wants to expand and by all accounts it seems like they intend to, the only conference that would make sense raiding would be the ACC but there isnt a home run addition (revenue wise). Not to mention it would be pretty costly to the moving team. As the TV revenue gaps increase and the closer to 2036 (when the criminal ACC deal ends) there will be more movement with ACC. Will BIG/FOX have more incentive to pluck from ACC/ESPN before the contract ends? I predict ESPN will try and be proactive before 2036, but how much before? The new B12 contract ends in 2031, with the cheap ACC contract expiring, will they try and merge b12/acc conferences somehow? Allowing SEC to grab clemson and whoever they want from b12/acc? [/QUOTE]

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