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This is my fear about the ACC generally and GT specifically. When the music stops and elbows fly while butts are seaking chairs, no one will cry for the ones left standing. Hopefully we get a chair early enough to have a choice.
I think if UNC and UVA choose the B1G, GT will have a better shot at getting the nod from the B1G.
I linked an interview earlier in the thread with UNC's former AD, and in it he mentioned that UNC has been invited multiple times over the years to the SEC...which sounds like UNC has a standing SEC offer. Plus, UNC fits into SEC's "contiguous" expansion model. There's a chance UNC ends up in the SEC and not the B1G.
If anyone thinks UNC wouldn't leave the ACC, just look at Texas/Oklahoma and USC/UCLA. All of those schools were found members and flagship members of their conferences. Everyone sees the HUGE revenue gap that's going to separate the Super 2 from everyone else, and schools that want to compete at that level will want to be part of it.
The $100 million/year question will be if the B1G still views GT the way they did when they invited us to join their conference and we turned them down. That could turn out to be a catastrophic error on our part.