I can see the eastern half of the SEC embracing the Hokies as brand new rivals. However the SEC Conference is going to be too big with ACC adds in my opinion. These western teams as the Hogs may not play the Hokies twice in a generation. Arkansas does not go to Knoxville & Gainesville or Athens and all those eastern opponents but every 12 years the way the SEC now sits with 14 teams. They are talking a single SEC Division for 16 teams and three or one set yearly opponents depending on a 9 or 8 Game SEC yearly schedule. Sankey discounted pods at SEC media days. Pods would be necessary for western SEC teams to regularly play new ACC adds. So the ACC surviving or faltering means little to me. Actually more concerned about the Big 12. I really like both those conferences compared to the B1G & Pac. I think the B1G will start dismantling the ACC, not the SEC. I am a SEC fan. I just think attorneys would have the groundwork for challenging that ACC GOR if the ACC went to six teams as I described in that previous post. Notre Dame is not going to still be around to yearly play those six teams after those eight defections I stated. I mean an attorney can ask what makes a football conference a legally viable and still viable functioning entity. We all know about eight, ten, twelve & fourteen team conferences still being totally viable. However where is the line? Does a conference's head office still being open with no schools still make a conference viable? Does that conference become viable with one school, two schools or three schools? Is a conference with six schools and no longer able to secure a TV Contract still considered legally viable? I don't know if an attorney can get traction with that or not? However I think legal avenues like that would be opened by the ACC falling apart. As to why the ACC is not already falling apart? The 15 teams in the ACC all signed that GOR less than a decade ago. Signing that GOR was an act of Binding. It takes pressure to break such a Binding. The ACC being financially dwarfed by other conferences is that pressure. ESPN can alleviate that pressure may increasing payments on the ACCN to each school? You think ESPN will do that in a big way? I think that is now necessary.