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RE: Common sense ACC/Big 12 Alliance
(03-13-2024 12:42 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: Let’s say that Florida St and Clemson do leave the ACC shortly but UNC decides to stay put and without them, additional expansion by the P2 then grinds to a halt.
The ACC backfills with USF and then enters a cooperative partnership with the Big 12–both parties agree to swap their geographic outliers and settle out to the following divisions/pods:
Big 12 Pacific: Stanford, Cal, Arizona, Ariz St, Utah, BYU
Big 12 Plains: Colorado, Kansas, K St, Iowa St, Okla St
Big 12 Southwest: TCU, SMU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston
ACC North: BC, Pitt, Cuse, WVU, Cincinnati, L’ville, USF, UCF
ACC South: VT, UVA, NC St, UNC, WF, Duke, GT, Miami
It makes too much sense to actually happen.
Interesting concept.
If you don't mind, this is how I would rearrange the deck chairs
ACC North:
BC, Pitt, Syracuse, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Louisville
ACC Coastal:
UVa, VT, Carolina, Duke, GT, Miami
ACC Atlantic:
Wake Forest, NC State, Clemson, FSU, TCU, SMU
Big 12 West:
Stanford, Cal, Utah, BYU, ASU, Arizona, Colorado, TT
Big 12 East:
Houston, Baylor, OSU, Kansas, KSU, ISU, UCF, USF
This gives the Big 12 and the ACC presence in both Florida and Texas
If, as in your original premise, that Clemson and FSU leave the ACC, the divisions then move to:
ACC North
BC, Syracuse, Pitt, WVU, Cincinnati, Louisville, VT, UVa
ACC South
Carolina, State, Wake, Duke, GT, Miami, TCU, SMU
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