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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 667744, member: 3201"]
I would be SO in support of adding WVU, although I wouldn't pay off the Big 12 to get them.
 
One, WVU puts 50k in the seats, which is nothing to sneeze at in this conference, and they compete in football.  They may not be national championship contenders, but they play serious football.  UConn, Cinci, etc are just not in the same level.  And their basketball, while bad this year, is nothing to be ashamed of.
 
The biggest reason to do it is to fix the scheduling.  There is simply no good way to schedule the ACC until we go to pods.  Pods of 4 or even 5 would work very well.
 
The way the ACC is set up, there are just too many unnecessary and long-distance matchups that happen every single year, and too many logical rivalry games that happen almost never. 
 
I would be all for adding WVU and even Cinci to get to pods, but only if we could cover their costs.  I don't think that is possible however.  If the ACC network becomes a real thing and is very successful, maybe someday it could pay for UConn and Cinci, but I'd much prefer WVU's football.
 
As far as ND goes, I think the ACC needs to stop making decisions based on them coming in football.  They will do everything in their power to avoid that, and now we've seen that the football world will accomodate them, so we need to move on from that.  Not saying that adding two teams is the right decision, but but if not, it's not about saving a spot for Notre Dame.  And whether a team is a potential "Notre Dame partner" shouldn't even be in the discussion.  They're not coming.
 
And if the day ever comes when Notre Dame wants to play football in the ACC, the ACC will accomodate that.  I don't care if the ACC already has 16 teams, we'll go to 18 or 20 if we need to if Notre Dame wants in.  But it's not happening.  They've secured their independence.
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