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Originally Posted by DeToxRox
I wonder if WVU would bolt for the Big 12? They could be screwed over by the Big East being torn apart so I wonder how a gamble on the Big 12 might work for them.
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Other than (maybe) TCU, I don't see any Big East teams heading to the Big 12 unless it is in a large group.
Greg Swaim (
Twitter) is tweeting that the ACC issued invitations (whatever that entails these days) to 5 Big East teams today and that two other BCS conferences made advances. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the ACC is going to lose one team, add five Big East teams, and the remaining Big East teams and the Big 12 North teams may group together.
From some of the conversations, Louisville (kind of surprisingly due to their academic reputation, but they make a ton of basketball money) and Syracuse seem to be at the top of the ACC list. Pitt and WVU seem likely (although Pitt was left off of one of the lists, I saw -- maybe Big Ten bound in a group?) and either UConn or Rutgers. Adding Louisville, Cuse, Pitt, WVU and UConn would add some major heft to the basketball side of things and the conference could split into North and South w/ those five + Maryland, BC, and Va Tech (or possibly Miami, as that would allow a Florida presence and Miami has a lot of Northeastern support/transplants).
That was long and rambling, so apologies. I've been keeping a close eye/ear on things, so there is a lot of info and misinformation out there, but just throwing some of the more intriguing rumors out there.
