what are they going to do if the Pro College Football gets launched? The SEC/ESPN seems bent on making it happen, but will the B1G follow that path? As far as my insight, I heard in 2003 when Virginia Tech was not included in the first ACC Expansion plans that I should not worry because eventually both Virginia Tech and Notre Dame would be fully included in the ACC. I heard that Notre Dame's administration very much wanted to join the ACC back then, but they needed to convince the big donors. Of course, with Bill and Alice Goodwin encouraging everyone, things changed dramatically for Tech's fortunes and the Notre Dame was slowly evolving, but Swofford made a monumental mistake. He gave ND a very easy path in 2020 to the ACC Championship and it backfired. The ND donors took in a big yawn with the regular season matchups except Clemson and said no way, never! Scheduling has been Swofford's biggest mistake as the Commissioner. He listened to FSU, Clemson and even Miami in the early days and he set up a walk in the park for one of them to make the BCS/playoff. In the meantime the SEC and B!G had way better matchups in the regular season. ESPN's talking heads made sure that both would get into the playoffs by saying they have losses because they are all so good. People bought it hook line and sinker. We screamed about it on this board, but no one cared, because we were drown out by the ESPN talking heads and we still are drowned out by them. Ultimately I think ESPN wants the ACC football first schools in the SEC and they hope that Fox grabs a few more from the ACC to set up the NFL model of two major broadcast networks televising Tier 1 college football. All of that said, I think that ESPN underestimated Jim Phillips. The B1G should have grabbed him as the commissioner. Nothing against Kevin Warren, but he is an NFL guy. I could actually see him being the next NFL Commissioner. However, they didn't and Jim Phillips has already stopped the playoff expansion, stopped the ACC from falling apart and seems to have the no divisions coming to the P-5. Those are huge accomplishments in just a few months! So every time I think the Pro College Football is about to win, that guy pulls a rabbit out of his hat. If he wants the ACC to survive in the long run, he needs to do what Boeing and Amazon just did and move the headquarters to the DC area. The Carolina Crowd will hate him for it, but if he pulls that off, the ACC has a chance to survive as a Tier 1 program. Otherwise, I think the ACC schools will start seeing their successful coaches leave due to doubling or even tripling of their salary. I don't want this, but it is very possible that is where we are headed unfortunately. If that's the case, I want Virginia Tech and Virginia where they can thrive both academically and athletically, if that even exist in the future. What do you think?