the Boston Colleges, UVAs, Dukes, and the Wake Forests want to keep cashing the same size checks while maintaining what are, in practice, akin to FCS football programs. You should have no doubt that Stanford and Cal are of the same mindset, and SMU talks big time, but the fact is it's a small, private, religious institution that's the 6th or 7th draw in its own state. Do you think the monocle wearing, cheese and wine crowd at UVA would ever look up from their Herodotus and agree to take less media money because the *harumph* chaps that carry that cursed oblong spheroid failed to accumulate an adequate number of victories? Caruthers! The bottom line is that, when the pencil necks look back and try to answer exactly what happened to the ACC, the answer will become crystal clear: a combination of incompetent leadership that failed to understand how the bread is buttered, and no singularity in mission among members. A house divided against itself will not stand, least of all so when it's being run by self-serving grease-balls or flop sweating dweebs that apparently think they're running a DIII athletics department. ** Edited by Baltimore_Hokie at 6/18/2024, 3:07:52 PM