Stimpy, come on. You're better than this. Your arguments, in general, are too cogent to be those of a troll. How can you miss this point so widely? Delany's Rutgers move is so strategic it literally makes 90% of the fans on this board wretch. State flagship, check. Strong commitment to academics (as measured by AAU membership), check. Adjacent, eastward footprint, check. Expanding population, check and, sweet Jesus, double check.
Many here seems willing to give the ACC an understandable pass on Louisville. After all, they, arguably, showed up at the "must replace Maryland ... must replace Maryland ..." confab with the best stated set of credentials. The Louisville acquisition can only be understood in the context of the ACC as a conference without a purpose. Louisville to the ACC was as well conceived as West Virginia to the Big12 was (and I'm not here to pick on either L'ville or WVU). Seriously, the chickens should have at least tried to re-attach their heads before pulling those levers.
Louisville's addition despite violating of two of the ACCs most understandable and defensible tenets, the Atlantic coast and strong academics (I, for one, didn't fault you guys for picking up Boston College which fit both), was simply a foreseeable consequence of the ACC having no governing principles. They are impetuous, favor expediency over thoughtfulness. Delany can articulate a vision, why can't Swofford?