My “way down the road prediction” for where this ends up is that now we would absorb SOME PAC schools, and then in about 13 years we would absorb all of the ACC remnants, go back and retrieve what PAC schools we left behind in 2022, add a handful of top end G5’s and form a coast to coast, 36 school league, split into 3-12 school geographically sane “conferences”…i see something like the following as being possible…
EAST
Cincinnati
West Virginia
Louisville
Pitt
Syracuse
Boston College
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech
Miami
UCF
USF
and our pick from East Carolina, Temple, UAB etc, etc
MIDWEST
Oklahoma State
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
BYU
Utah
Houston
Baylor
TTU
TCU
SMU
Memphis
WEST
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Stanford
Cal-Berkeley
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
Colorado State
San Diego State
and our choice of UNLV, Boise State
So im okay with a full on merger now IF our media partners are willing to pay for it.