discussions on why it shouldn't be by commentators. No such thing as bad PR. It keeps ND hanging around and I think ND is the best OOC the ACC has, certainly VT's. Will that be forever, eh who knows. I like ND's association with the ACC. The ACC is static and will be for the next10 years or so, maybe more. Change is good imho and this is what you can do in cfb to change. Not only is the ACC static but provincial. You have complained about the Tobacco Road bunch running the joint and rightly so. This can spread things out. Now with two of them holding things up -UNC & ST-it seems they object to that, at least one could suspect that. More money from tv. Some folks are po-pooing 4-5 million bucks each but it all adds up. Right now do not foresee 30mm dropping out of the sky at once. We will " have to work two jobs" to make it up for the foreseeable future. Top shelf academics. Who knows what can become of that, but this football and athletics. VT probably won't go more than once a year in football and BB so that can be handled. (VT scheduled Az in a few years so going there is no big deal) The other sports, well that will require some creative scheduling I will admit-but, can be done. These are resilient young people not us old foggies. Would not think it would help recruiting too much in Cali maybe Texas if SmU comes along for the ride. 'Nobody cares about SMU in Texas". Would they if Florida St. comes to town or UNC or even VT? I would like to find out. Anyway, there are some others but I really don't see any negatives.