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The SEC wont be very spread out. The others will be.

Wasn't there also legislature that seemingly had Texas & Texas A&M joined at the hip?
I believe they could get around it.

I too think Slive would ultimately select both Duke & UNC were he to have his way. The TV markets in that very poipulated area along with what it would add to the conference from a branding, basketball & academic aspect. Not to mention geographical fit & the absence of burden that would be on the "student-athlete." I think this move would please everyone from the fan to the presidents & would draw hardly any criticism imo. Idk how likely it is or that it will ever happen, but I believe it's more likely than most think.

Duke and UNC accomplish 2 things.....1) huge regional following for the TV market that is coveted 2) Major in roads into basketball to go along with kentucky.....Makes a lot of sense but doubt it ever happens

Upvoted because I giggled at "backdooring the ACC"

Exactly. And VT spent a lot of political capital to get the Governor to threaten UNA with a loss of funding if they opposed VT. So now a few years later, VT says, "Thanks a lot, Gov. We enjoyed it, but we just got invited to a better dance, so bye now." I doubt if VT, a state funding school, would be so brazen with whoever supported them.

OTOH, if UVA's response was, "Hell yeah, let them go!" the situation would obviously change. But I suspect UVA has seen the benefit of having VT by now.

With all that said, I could be entirely wrong. I don't follow political or sports matters in VA much at all.

I looked it up and you're mostly right. The Board of Governors oversees each school's BOT. I looked at their profiles and NCS BOT was nearly 100% NCS grads. The Board of Governors is made up of about 2/3 UNC people. That drops to 50% if you discount the ones that only have law degrees from UNC. Like you said, the Board of Governors appears to have the authority to nix any move.

Upvote for a good call.

The bring a football tradition program, a baseball tradition program and on the rise men and womens basketball teams. Not sure how it would impact our coach Frank Martin but it would open that market for recruiting for all sports programs for USC.