If the ACC adds Cal and Stanford, 10 of the 12 current Pac-12 schools will be spread among the Big Ten, the Big 12 and the ACC.
has to do is win at the same stratospheric level as its sense of self-importance, and there might be enough new money to shut its mouth for the time being. Plus keep Clemson happy as well.
For Cal and Stanford, Power 5 affiliation is only marginally about football. If they dropped down to an FCS conference tomorrow, their already paltry attendance might barely be affected. Without Power 5 membership, the schools would no longer be able to financially support those sports at the same level, and many elite national recruits would no longer want to play there. Hence, why North Carolina’s national championship women’s soccer coach, Anson Dorrance, said this week: “No way I want to share the glory of our conference with two schools that could do a very good job of recruiting against us.”Somehow this whole thing simultaneously makes perfect sense and no sense at all.
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