(04-21-2015 07:52 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 07:08 PM)Marge Schott Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 06:39 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 05:47 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(04-21-2015 03:51 PM)opossum Wrote:  I don't think we'd take more than one partial/transitional member at a time.

I think that the ACC might do that for Texas. It would be a smart move, in my opinion.

Also Southern California and the University of Florida... but that's my limit.

What? Heck no. USC is too far west. UF isn't "needed" like a Texas could be. If anything, Ohio State and Michigan would be worthy of similar deals, but that's about it.

And TerryD is right. It'd be smart to give Texas a similar deal to Notre Dame if that's what it took. I don't know if that would make the ACC more or less stable, but it's better than the alternative of letting Texas slip away to a different conference and allowing the ACC to fall farther behind.

It's a strategic move, Marge... take UF just to get the SEC out of Florida.
And I'd still take USC even if they are 2,000 miles away - just for the away games!