If Olympic sports are not in the ACC, then we risk Title IX trouble due to unequal treatment? I would think the extra burden of travel would be a big problem for Olympic sports and they might rather not be in the ACC with the football and basketball teams. I hadn't thought of that angle.

the travel for the former PAC schools non revenue sports is going to be awful in the B1G, B12 and the ACC if this expansion happens. They all need a private jet sponsorship ✈️

part of the acc agreement.

I know that PAC 12 made a number of idiotic mistakes but the fact that there's no major D1 all sports conference concentrated on the West Coast is a joke.

80% of the US population lives east of it, only 20% to the west of it. It runs pretty much runs through Austin, TX. The map below shows how spread out the schools in the west are, and how easily schools in the east were able to create conferences. This map is all of the D1 schools, not just football schools. In the map, you can see the 98th meridian and the huge drop off in the number of schools. BTW, the 98th meridian is pretty much the dividing line between areas with water and the areas with limited water.

out all over the place, I'm out. Particularly USC and UCLA games against B1G opponents. Hate the move. Hate the break up.

after all the schools non-football athletic programs complain about traveling and grow tired of it. Tech's been in that situation before with the Metro/Independent football, Metro/BEFC and A-10/BEFC, so it has been done. Let the big spenders have their upper tier/pro league and maybe tier 2 would include all the P-4 schools who don't qualify to make the 30+ tier 1 division. Maybe they could bring the Pac-12 back to play all the other sports. I assume the SEC would be tier 1 except for Vanderbilt. They could possibly play in the ACC? Since ESPN controls the ACC and SEC, they could work out some agreement. Probably two-thirds of the B1G schools would qualify for tier 1. FSU, Clemson, Miami and maybe a few other ACC schools would play tier 1 football. ESPN/Fox would run the tier 1 pro league. Three quarters of the ACC football programs would play in tier 2 along with the Big 12 and some of the G-5 schools. Tier 2 would have its own playoff and champion as would the G-5 schools. FCS would remain as it is. That way you would keep all the non-football sports as regional as possible.

Does he know what the last school was to clear that bar?

Probably not.

I kid. But I do hope this is a wakeup call for those three, and they all start shoving money into NIL and their programs and make the ACC proud.