Re: My thoughts on ACC expansion.

Basing this on David Hood's post about ACC looking to expand further, to replace FSU, Clemson, UNC and whoever else leaves.

Invite Wazzou, OR ST, San Diego State and Boise State (If they think 4 are leaving the ACC.)

That would set up a nice "Western Division" of the "All Coast Conference." (Maybe they should invite USF and South Alabama so they would have the Gulf Coast covered, but I digress.)

They could set a schedule where a football team travels coast to coast no more than once per year. The "Olympic Sports" could travel 0 or 1 times per year. (A lot of golf teams already travel once a year coast to coast. You could possibly set up a conference "mini-tourney" with two east coast and two west coast teams playing so each school could have 3 conference games with only one trip across the country for sports such as tennis and volleyball. You could set up a swim meet with similar to golf - a meet with several teams competing.

I knows nothing. I'm speaking as nothing more than an ignorant fan.

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Oct 11, 2023, 11:13 PM

That's cool but travel really isn't a big deal except for volleyball, baseball and softball. The rowing team went to a meet in Oregon last spring. Basketball has tournaments and teams in holiday tournaments from all over the country. Play 2 games a week average. You just schedule two West coast teams in same week, then West coast comes east for 2 weeks. Volleyball would have to schedule like basketball. Even 2 fb trips out west ain't nothing. ND does it all the time.

Nowadays remote learning is wired into the kids. The hard ones are baseball and softball where you play 4 times a week, occasionally 5 times. But the easy solution there is you eliminate the start of season round Robin tournaments and replace those with conference teams.

Fact is, the B1G and sec have plans. Even the expansion of the b12. All conferences will have to eliminate matchups between ooc competition. So in that aspect, it will be ashamed to lose those... but with the other conferences expansion, those are lost too.

Jmho, in the long-term the TV revenue will realize matchups were more important than conference affiliated games and this will backfire. You'll end up with 64 teams like Dabo has already said. Then the season pretty much becomes a season long playoff.

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My thoughts on ACC expansion.