ACC School Reportedly is Attempting to Join the SEC in the ‘Near Future’

[Nouveaux]

UNC and UVA make the most sense. They're the top schools in their state and they bring new states to the conference. NCSt and VT are probably better fits culturally but they don't bring near the prestige of the other two. Clemson and FSU/Miami bring nothing unique to the conference.

 

[TNnative]

Memphis goes to the ACC, UNC comes to the SEC, and Missouri goes..... does anyone really care where Missouri goes?

Had you said Vanderbilt instead of Missouri? I mean yeah, 5 star academics, but -1 star athletics (aside from baseball)

 

[dobre_shunka]

UNC itself cannot decide change conferences. The NC university system board gave themselves sole and final authority on conference moves.

UNC Chapel Hill probably has the juice to make the board do what they want. However that board is also responsible for NCSU which could be left high and dry if Chapel Hill leaves the ACC which would likely start the collapse of the ACC.

 

[DaddyChad]

Always follow the money and the money is TV markets. Which schools would move and have the most to offer the conference?

 

[RDU VOL#14]

UNC itself cannot decide change conferences. The NC university system board gave themselves sole and final authority on conference moves.

UNC Chapel Hill probably has the juice to make the board do what they want. However that board is also responsible for NCSU which could be left high and dry if Chapel Hill leaves the ACC which would likely start the collapse of the ACC.

UNC is the flagship school for the entire ACC. If it goes, the conference will collapse or become a shell of itself like the PAC 12. Have ECU, App and Coastal join or something crazy like that

 

[VOLLeeann]

North Carolina

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[onevol74]

I don’t want the SEC to expand at all-I want the conference to shrink, instead. But if we must expand…. Let’s bring Georgia Tech back (they never should’ve left anyway), and bring the Hokies aboard (wish they’d come instead of Mizzou). To hell with the Heels, Noles, Clemson and Duke. Texas and OU are bad enough, the last thing we need are any of those 4.

The reason GT left was Bama cheating and the rest of the conference not doing anything about it. They were once one of our traditional rivals.

 

[stolitonic]

The reason GT left was Bama cheating and the rest of the conference not doing anything about it. They were once one of our traditional rivals.

Tech left the SEC as they knew in general that they weren't gonna be able to keep up. At the time Tech left, the only majors Tech offered were engineering/science based majors. Management, etc was added in the 80s and would be what athletes majored in while I was there. I believe now it is theoretically possible to graduate Tech with a history, English, etc degree. I remember early in my career there the school achieving their first graduate of the English program lol. The professors were busy patting themselves on the back for quite a while



GT was simply going to become another punching bag like Candy if they had stayed in the SEC as they could no longer attract top of the line talent due to academics.



That was from the lips of Bobby Dodd himself in the 80s. I'm sure there were small disputes with individual schools as you reference, but the primary driver was changing dynamics in the football landscape. Big was getting bigger already back in those days