[Mudhead]

A pretty forthright explanation from the UNC women's soccer coach as why he doesn't want Stanford in the ACC: 
"Well, I appreciate you allowing me to speak on this because I know our conference commissioner is in favor of this because I read a, a statement that he made where he thought this would be a good idea because obviously these are phenomenal schools academically. Uh but also they have great sports programs. If you look at the director's cup, Stanford dominates it. So you're bringing in a truly elite combination of academics and athletics with those two schools. But Stanford extraordinarily, I mean, they're on the top of everyone's academic list and also very high with almost every sports team on campus being in a position to challenge for a national championship. So that would be a wonderful, you know, I guess a feather in the cap of our commissioner. But for us, you know, uh with boots on the ground now, uh this is gonna be horrible for us because then of course, our budgets are extraordinary as it is. And now we would try to add in, you know, flights across the country to play these two schools uh which will be incredibly expensive. And then the fact that now we're exposing the whole country, not that Stanford and Cal don't have a national recruiting platform, of course they do. But if you put those two schools in the AC C, it's going to be so easy for them to recruit nationally. So it'll just benefit them in my opinion, not us. We've built the best women's soccer conference in the country and there's no way I want to share the glory of our conference with two schools that could do a very good job recruiting against us. And so basically, I want Cal and Stanford to die on the vine. I look forward to, you know, seeing Stanford, which is a very difficult school to recruit against. I would look forward to them basically having it be so difficult for them to recruit the elite soccer player. And then we would be in a position to obviously gain those kids and, you know, put the AC C in an even stronger position. So I think in some respects, I can see why, um Jim is interested in this, you know, as our commissioner of the AC C but for us that, you know, have to basically do the work and have to pay for it. No. And these are schools that, you know, yeah, they're in trouble, they're in trouble. It's gonna be harder and harder and harder for them to recruit. And that means that benefits the rest of us in the AC C"
https://www.wralsportsfan.com/dorrance-i.../21011056/

I infer from her comments that she believes if  Stanford is not in a power 5 conference it’s will be easier to recruit against.

[Mudhead]

A pretty forthright explanation from the UNC women's soccer coach as why he doesn't want Stanford in the ACC: 
"Well, I appreciate you allowing me to speak on this because I know our conference commissioner is in favor of this because I read a, a statement that he made where he thought this would be a good idea because obviously these are phenomenal schools academically. Uh but also they have great sports programs. If you look at the director's cup, Stanford dominates it. So you're bringing in a truly elite combination of academics and athletics with those two schools. But Stanford extraordinarily, I mean, they're on the top of everyone's academic list and also very high with almost every sports team on campus being in a position to challenge for a national championship. So that would be a wonderful, you know, I guess a feather in the cap of our commissioner. But for us, you know, uh with boots on the ground now, uh this is gonna be horrible for us because then of course, our budgets are extraordinary as it is. And now we would try to add in, you know, flights across the country to play these two schools uh which will be incredibly expensive. And then the fact that now we're exposing the whole country, not that Stanford and Cal don't have a national recruiting platform, of course they do. But if you put those two schools in the AC C, it's going to be so easy for them to recruit nationally. So it'll just benefit them in my opinion, not us. We've built the best women's soccer conference in the country and there's no way I want to share the glory of our conference with two schools that could do a very good job recruiting against us. And so basically, I want Cal and Stanford to die on the vine. I look forward to, you know, seeing Stanford, which is a very difficult school to recruit against. I would look forward to them basically having it be so difficult for them to recruit the elite soccer player. And then we would be in a position to obviously gain those kids and, you know, put the AC C in an even stronger position. So I think in some respects, I can see why, um Jim is interested in this, you know, as our commissioner of the AC C but for us that, you know, have to basically do the work and have to pay for it. No. And these are schools that, you know, yeah, they're in trouble, they're in trouble. It's gonna be harder and harder and harder for them to recruit. And that means that benefits the rest of us in the AC C"
https://www.wralsportsfan.com/dorrance-i.../21011056/

I infer from her comments that she believes if  Stanford is not in a power 5 conference it’s will be easier to recruit against.