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Unless I am mistaken one of the things to come out of the first ACC raid of the BE was a clause inserted into the bE bylaws that allows the football schools to split from the hoops schools without any penalty. The hoops schools will retain the BE name and with that the BCS qualifier so you can see why football schools never really wanted to take this route. But now that they can merge with the Big 12 schools that are left over and use the Big 12 BCS auto qualifier it is a different story. What I want to know is this...if out if this meeting the football schools decide to exercise their out clause and inform the hoops school presidents at the upcoming Oct 2 meeting it would be interesting to see if they all leave together (Pitt & Cuse included) or if the remaining football schools leave them to the wolves. If this split does happen keep an eye on ND...they want olympic sports connected to a BCS conference to use their bowl tie-in's like they do with the BE right now. It is VERY telling that Swarbick the ND AD is not being included in football school meetings when ND has always rubber stamped what that side if the BE wanted.
My opinion on Oct 2 the football schools exercise their out clause and merge with remaining Big 12 schools...ND is forced into making a move and surprises everyone by going to the ACC with either UConn or Rutgers with the other school going to the B-10. I think ND thinks in the ACC they have a better shot of getting a BCS bid than in the B-10, and it is a better league for their olympic sports, especially hoops.
My opinion on Oct 2 the football schools exercise their out clause and merge with remaining Big 12 schools...ND is forced into making a move and surprises everyone by going to the ACC with either UConn or Rutgers with the other school going to the B-10. I think ND thinks in the ACC they have a better shot of getting a BCS bid than in the B-10, and it is a better league for their olympic sports, especially hoops.