(07-26-2023, 07:29 PM)paloalto Wrote: From an academic standpoint the ACC would be a good match for Stanford and Cal: Duke, Virginia, Syracuse, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Pitt, Virginia Tech. It's the geography for Olympic sports that's the killer.
WILD IDEA FOR THAT BASED ON OTHER QUAKES
A) Some are promoting an SEC poach of CLEM, MIAM, and FLST to make a SuperConf with best TV deal by far.
https://fanbuzz.com/uncategorized/3-rumo...n-the-sec/
B) ACC has an odd 15 schools today. That poach would take them down to 12.
C) WASH, OREG, STAN, CAL jump ship and join the ACC (Soon to be "Coastal Conf") as the Western Pod.
I honestly don't think the Student-Athletes would mind the travel (they're young), and the better brand arenas / schools.
Sure lots of travel; pay for it out of Endowment (just suck it up) initially, then the BIGGER, BETTER TV Deal refills the Endowment.
WAST and ORST are left to the Mountain West, which needs teams.
This assumes that COLO, UTAH, and ARIZ + AZST are outbound to Big12 to make that a 16 Team SuperConf.
USC and UCLA are in the B1G.