mustang1992 wrote:That thread was exhausting, but hilarious.
I read it because of the flat assumption that the ACC soon will be made into what the Pac is now. That is the line of a large group of SEC and BT fans, and that any Houston fan preaches it as Gospel is revealing about him. It makes clear that his obsession lies in having Houston be in whatever is left as the #3 richest and most powerful conference. So he talks that up at every angle.
I do think that his view is also jaundiced became there must be some major animus against SMU. SMU is singled out for his contempt not just because of getting into to the ACC but for being SMU. So perhaps his faith that the ACC soon will be like the Pac is now would not drive so much if SMU were not in the ACC.
The jokey explanations obviously start with: so he wanted to go to SMU badly and didn't get admitted. But the basic fact I think is that he knows that in this era of NIL and revenue sharing, SMU can succeed very well, as long as it is in a Major conference. The same cannot be said of Houston.
AS for the ACC future - even FSU is now walking back almost everything. I have always said that while FSU has. whole bunch really crazy boosters who really do think that FSU is kind of Bama or Ohio St in value, that Clemson wants only to secure a bigger piece of the TV money pie vis a vis the Wakes and BCs.
The key piece to destroy the ACC always has been UNC. That is the reason that the SEC tried hard tonged interest from UNC when Texas turned it down the first time. If UNC had bitten, the SEC would never have offered Arkansas, instead taking UNC and probably UVA to go to 12. The best thing for the ACC now is that UNC has finally, for the first time in history, decried to go all in on football with the money coughed up, rather quickly and easily, to hire Belichick. So UNC making that move further solidifies ACC football more than even if Miami and FSU were both Top 10 at the same time again. UNC making that decision and succeeding in pulling it off (which was very easy, because Belichick wanted that challenge and had always loved the campus since first scouting Lawrence Taylor there, which had led to his family reminding him that he had learned to talk in Chapel Hill when his dad was a UNC assistant coach) means that the centerpiece member of the ACC is now going full steam ahead to win big at football, which means the league is now, for the first time ever, best positioned to maximize its full football potential.
So the key then becomes can the ACC expand to improve its TV numbers, which would end any talk of then Big 12 3ver having a shot to become the 3rd most valuable conference. Clearly Utah is les tha thrilled with the Big 12, and most U of Utah people would prefer to be above BYU in conference membership just qs they are in all academic rankings. Utah would be a very easy addition, if ESPN will pay. EASPN should want Utah as well as the 2 AZ schools to secure its position as
the network for MT college sports.