These three seem like rambling morons every time I see them.
âI donât read anything with 2500 words. Thatâs too long.â
Thatâs about five or six paragraphâs. Thatâs a sad commentary on the world today.
That would be a great team for us to play OOC in basketball! 
Like us, Le Moyne founded in 1946. Do have something in common with the Dolphins - beating Syracuse in menâs hoops!
Sounds like WIU to the OVC has been in the works for awhile:
âMagnificent 7ââŚLMAO - child please, I hope the ACC dissolves and that all of these schools stink in whatever they choose to do.
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https://footballscoop.com/news/report-pac-12-prepping-to-add-san-diego-state
But within a sky of uncertainty, Dellenger dropped this line:
One thing is certain: The Pac-12 plans to expand by adding San Diego State and maybe SMU coinciding with its completion of a new TV deal.
That leaves these programs out:
BC
Duke
Ga Tech
Louisville
Pitt
Syracuse
Wake Forest
I imagine Duke might try to do something like or with UConn (possibly even invite then to join). That would possibly give them 8 members.
Thatâd be a lean league still. Theyâd be better off inviting a few more programs. Maybe 2-4. Their egos probably wonât let them, but it could open up some membership opportunities. FAU would get them back into Florida. SMU would be out of the footprint but would otherwise be a solid match (and probably a more stable option than the PAC, see above post). Charlotte would be slumming it (we all know thatâs how theyâd feel about it) but keep them more invested in NC. UAB would be fine but for that awful community college name. Memphis as a Louisville rival but bad academics. Tulsa as a plan B for Memphis. Tulane for academics and a rival for SMU if offered. Cupboard gets pretty sparse after that.
There is no way in hell though the football side of that league gets much more than the AAC has been getting. Itâs just not a good enough product to justify more. Basketball would still be decent but not great overall.
My guess, unless Poggi saves us, is it looks like this if those 7 leave and they backfill:
BC
UConn
Duke
FAU (location, location, location) or USF
Ga Tech
Louisville
Memphis or Tulsa
Pitt
SMU (or UAB or Charlotte)
Syracuse
Tulane
Wake Forest
12 team league, full of private schools and 30k football stadiums.
ECU - I am not trying to hate on, but I figure they are down there with us and USF in the final desperate option land.
The Florida options really suck for this possible league, but FLA is traditionally a must have state for recruiting purposes. Otherwise their lack of facilities and success outside of FAU hoops disqualifies them. FAUs gym would probably DQ them anyway.
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Iâm just wasting time, but if we got invited to something like that proposal above, probably at AAC payout levels, how would you feel?
Also, I donât think the 7 departures would all find a home. They might, but I still think NCSU and Miami and VA Tech might get left out, making all of this moot.
Then again, Big 12 would probably happily invite all of them to build up their eastern portfolio.
clt says the acc should lease space in Charlotte. not looking good
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One thing is for certain, the lawyers will win
One of these is not like the others.
And would fit in better with the 7 listed who want to spend more and earn more to compete at the highest level.
Yes Louisville. Not an academic fit with the others listed as left out and they want to compete at the highest level. Also a public like most of the others.
All they need is 8 to break the grant of rights and either disband the ACC (which would see them distribute out to the B10, Sec and B12 or form their own league. Their payout would be much higher on a new media deal.
Duke should try to join the Big East and go down to FCS in football if they want to keep their hoops at the top.
The others? Who the hell knows.
You can break those seven down even further:
Public
GT
Louisville
Pitt
Catholic
BC
Private
Duke
Syracuse
Wake
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I think Pitt, Louisville and GT fit in more with the Public metro schools like Us, UAB, etc. Itâs a damn shame we couldnt have made a league with them and Cincy and Memphis and Houston and UCF and Miami. Would have been a lot of fun.
UAB
Charlotte
UCF
Cincinnati
Georgia Tech
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
SMU
Syracuse
Thatâs a pretty damn good looking league. I know, waste of time, but Iâd love to see something like it one day. And then we could schedule ECU and APP on a rotating basis.
SMU actually a private school. In spite of its official name, now non-sectarian.
Actually so is Miami. I always forget that.
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My mother is an alum of the University of Denver, which is also a private school.
Anyway, interesting that city-named schools run the gamut of being public, private, or religious affiliated, with many of the latter being Catholic.