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cvillehokie92 OP
Sep 01, 2023 at 08:05 AM ET
ACC expansion approved?

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TOUGH TURKEY
New Atlantic Coast to Coast Conference!!!!!!!!!
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Truthahn
I love his "Spoiler: they will accept" tweet. That is fine news breaking.
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squarerootofone
yup. approved..............
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132863Hokie
Pete Thamel from ESPN tweets on vote to expand approved this morning
"Sources: ACC Presidents and Chancellors have voted this morning to extend invitations to Stanford, California and SMU to push the league to 18 teams."
HokieAl HokieAl
Wow that was early and fast. Will be interesting to get the full story
Well the ACC just found a way to overshadow all its own teams playing this week.
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132863Hokie
Here is the link to the story on ESPN
Victor Tango Victor Tango
And just last night the OSU Pres was optimistic that the PAC-4 would stay
together and rebuild. I guess when the Stanford pres wakes up (5:30 there now), he'll have a decision to make!
goldendomer goldendomer
Hate this move, but this may bring a tad of stability.
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132863Hokie
Agreed. A little more money and viability for a few years to survive.
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Colonel Jessup
Certainly eliminates hypotheticals
That involve the remote possibilities where you get the needed votes to benefit the top schools while leaving the bottom ones hung out to dry. Not sure what we will discuss here now. Always something, right? I suppose scheduling will be a big one. How the financials will shake out. GOR challenging will probably resurface next year.
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Hokie Kev
it will bring more travel, less interest, and eventually the end of the ACC
a sad day for a conference we once celebrated getting into. I don't see how VT or any other member school could have voted for this with a straight face. Must be pretty dire to have to do this. For once, I side with UNC. Gone are the giddy days of 2004. This is the beginning of the end for this league, sorry to say. Atlantic Coast? More like Alternate Coast Conference Say what you want, but no one already in the ACC in their right mind celebrates this. And SMU? what a joke...
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Colonel Jessup
I was hopeful for ACC post the current agreement with 2-4 defections
but that is out of the window now. Too many terrible fanbases now stretched to freakin Cali. B12 is positioned much better esp. with any ACC loses. Yes, I know the landscape will likely change prior to then.
wwhokie1 wwhokie1
If the ACC loses four schools, and VT is not one of them. B12 will start to
Look very good as an option, and better than the ACC. In that situation, the Big 12 would clearly become the number three conference ahead of the ACC. ** Edited by wwhokie1 at 9/1/2023, 10:23:24 AM
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Hokester
Not sure I like it either but ND adding a 6th game would make it palliative
I know you are opposed to the 6th game but ND lobbied so hard for this expansion, they should put their money where their mouth is.
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lawhokie
Palliative care for a terminal patient. That makes sense.
** Edited by lawhokie at 9/1/2023, 8:53:08 AM
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EDGEMAN
Did they add a 6th game?
If not, then we once again gave ND what it wanted with nothing in return. Actually less than nothing, since individual ACC schools will play them less often.
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Hokester
No idea. I am just hoping.
goldendomer goldendomer
I doubt we did, but we will know soon if Stanford stays on the schedule.