EastStang wrote:From the gossip. FSU, UVA and UNC will jump to the Big Ten. Clemson to the SEC. I don't see South Carolina wanting Clemson in the SEC. I don't see UVA and UNC getting an easy pass from their state governments to leave behind VT and NCS (not to mention Duke and Wake). So, I hope that Graceland Tarheel is has lots of friends in the UNC hierarchy.
A whole loot of us hate both SEC and BT. The SEC line for the pst few years has been that if something happened to the ACC, UNC would love for the SEC. The notion comes from an in formal poll of Ram's Club (the UNC boosters group) members back right after Maryland left. It ws poorly worded, nd most who answered assumed it meant the league already was gutted badly. And because everyone then was focused on the BT as monster, the SEC types saw the ;poll as meaning UNC sports Fns were already itching to join the SEC - WRONG!.
And things have changed - now may times more of us also hate the SEC.
AS for me, I know it would be a bad thing for the state of NC for UNC, MooU (NCSU) , and Dook to be split. We are all key parts of the Research Triangle, and the RT is extremely important to NC. The 3 of us need to remain tied together in as many ways as possible.
What I think can be done now is that we lose FSU, but use that loss to get dels from ESPN to help overcome it nd remain easily the most important and financially secure conference. Both Amazon Prime and Apple want to get into live college sports, and ESPN has been looking for investors. I hope that either Amazon or Apple or both will want to invest in ESPN by investing in showing the ACC - and also demanding a larger ACC, for more content and more geography. We need more TX schools to mark a real presence, especially in and near DFW. WE could use UAZ, AZ ST, and maybe Utah (all are AAU). Cincinnati could be a nice addition. And lacking FSU we need to add USF - which now is an AAU school with an on campus stadium.