Originally Posted by jdlea
On Maryland: I, personally, would like them to stay in the ACC for no other reason than they've been playing in the ACC for as long as I can remember. And, as someone who spent a semester there, (before I found out they wouldn't take my transfer credits...thanks a-holes) I can say that there is a strong feeling of rivalry with other ACC teams, so if you take them out of a conference with Duke, UNC and FSU (football "rivalry"), the school will be losing something.
On Big Ten Expansion: If I'm the Big Ten and I'm still looking to expand, I'd probably look at Cinicinnati, West Virginia, Pitt, Mizzou, Rutgers, Kansas and K State
On ACC Expansion: I'd try like hell to hang on to UMD, and go after many of the same schools: WVU, Pitt, Rutgers, and throw in USF at least.
On Pac 10 Expansion: That just seems like it's going to be insane. I'm concerned that it could, potentially crush some of the schools out there who have moderate conference success and seem to be up and coming, though. I look at schools like Oregon and think that they're up and coming, who knows what happens when you add Texas and OU to that conference, though.
On SEC Expansion: I would 100% be raiding the ACC. Go out and get both of the Florida schools (Miami and FSU) and I'd consider USF (Big East), then I'd go for Georgia Tech, Clemson, and probably Louisville, Kansas, and Kansas State just to name a few.
Shameless plug: I'd love to see my boys from Tulane slide in under the radar during all of these big name school switches and end up in a power conference (that won't happen)
What's funny about all of this is that, supposedly, Notre Dame would only consider joining the Big Ten if they were the only team involved in the expansion. So, with Nebraska informally agreeing to jump, the Big Ten may effectively be guaranteeing that Notre Dame stays Independent (or joins another conference O_o) while killing the Big XII and leaving some prominent schools scrambling for conferences.
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