📡 Realignment News '23: After a weekend of conversations, there’s continued momentum toward the ACC adding Stanford, Cal and SMU

[TerryP]

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Knowing nothing else about it, I'm going to assume this is Cal and Stanford asking begging to be let in. ACC is on unsteady ground, but bringing in those 2 seems to, from my vantage point anyway, have the scales heavily tipped to the cons and away from the pros.

 

[BamaFan334]

Shwew, that would be one heck of a travel schedule. Might as well bring in the last four if you plan on bringing in those two.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

We'll take FSU and Clemson just to help them with scheduling difficulties.

 

[TerryP]

Shwew, that would be one heck of a travel schedule.

Speaking of travel...a few days ago the AD from AZ St. made the comment about traveling to Morgantown: "I'm not going to Morgantown."

1) Is he Xenophobic? He doesn't like people from West Virginia?
2) Or, is an intellectual blowhard talking out of his ass?

 

[24and7]

A lot of these college games will look like the bowl games… about 1000 people there…

 

[BamaFan334]

Speaking of travel...a few days ago the AD from AZ St. made the comment about traveling to Morgantown: "I'm not going to Morgantown."

1) Is he Xenophobic? He doesn't like people from West Virginia?
2) Or, is an intellectual blowhard talking out of his ass?

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I saw he was pretty pissed about that, ha ha.

 

[24and7]

The Pac could still form a conference with the mountain west league… it could still be about as attractive as the Big 12… a conference of B teams…

 

[rick4bama]

I'm guessing it won't be long before we only have two conference.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I'm guessing it won't be long before we only have two conference.

Yep. Might as well complete the professional makeover and have 12 minute halftimes, a two minute warning, training camps, preseason games (including one in Atlanta called the Hall of Fame Game), and closer hash marks and uprights on the field.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

Knowing nothing else about it, I'm going to assume this is Cal and Stanford asking begging to be let in. ACC is on unsteady ground, but bringing in those 2 seems to, from my vantage point anyway, have the scales heavily tipped to the cons and away from the pros.

Nope, it's a Duke-UNC-UVa plot to transform the ACC into Mensa.

 

[sean]

Would they still call it the ACC since not all of their schools are near the Atlantic Ocean? Maybe PACU? Or APCU?

 

[TerryP]

Nope, it's a Duke-UNC-UVa plot to transform the ACC into Mensa.

That should be enough to force Coach K out of retirement.

 

[RTB X Bot]

California and Stanford have shown interest in joining the ACC, industry sources tell CBS Sports. What's not known is whether the interest is being reciprocated by the conference.

ACC athletic directors were scheduled to meet to discuss the schools' viability on a Monday call. ACC presidents meet later this week on the subject. It's not clear whether either meeting includes exclusive discussion of expansion. The talks are considered preliminary at this time, but as we've seen over the last couple years, realignment can accelerate quickly.

Furthermore, the University of California Board of Regents has scheduled a meeting at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday to discuss its Pac-12 membership.

Cal and Stanford potentially moving across the nation to the easternmost power conference could be the first significant piece of fallout from last week's significant realignment moves. The Northern California programs have apparently been left out by the Big Ten in any potential plans for further expansion as the Bay Area is considered to be overrated as a television market, industry sources tell CBS Sports.

 

[TerryP]

NCAA President:

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[BamaFan334]

Would they still call it the ACC since not all of their schools are near the Atlantic Ocean? Maybe PACU? Or APCU?

That good ole Atlantic Pacific Coasts Conference.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

That good ole Atlantic Pacific Coasts Conference.

All Coasts Conference.

 

[BamaFan334]

All Coasts Conference.

Ahhh, there we go!

 

[PurlJam]

Cal and Stanford would be s around any conferences neck. They will add ZERO revenue anywhere they go.