The Big East is Done and Basketball Fans Should Weep. Which School Will Be Next to Bolt for the ACC?
By Jason McIntyre
If the ACC is targeting a Big East school with a football team ($$$$), then Cincinnati, South Florida, Louisville, Connecticut and Rutgers make the most sense. Rutgers (“NYC footprint!”) and UConn have essentially been begging the ACC to take them for the last year.
Marquette (no football)
Georgetown (I-AA football)
Seton Hall (no football)
St. John’s (no football)
Villanova (No D1 football)
Providence (no football)
DePaul (no football)
Cincinnati
South Florida
Louisville
Connecticut
Rutgers
*Memphis
*Houston
*SMU
*Central Florida
Syracuse – to the ACC
Pittsburgh – to the ACC
Notre Dame – to the ACC
West Virginia – to the Big 12
As a basketball conference, will what’s left of the Big East even trump the A-10, which added VCU and Butler? It’s questionable.
The alternative for the ACC, which was floated on twitter by many: Should the ACC pursue a strong academic school like Vanderbilt, which probably will never win the SEC (although it is an improving program), and then hope Notre Dame bails on NBC for the ACC? Wouldn’t hold my breath for Notre Dame football if I were the ACC.
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* With all the realignment happenings going down in the last couple years, you may have forgotten those moves! Read all about them here. Then again, that link is a month old, who knows how much has changed.