In a follow-up story in the Raleigh NC News & Observer (1 October 2016) about ND's loss at home to Duke...the possibility of ND football added to the ACC along with either Navy or Villanova.
And there are issues that go beyond Notre Dame. Even if Notre Dame wanted to become the ACC’s 15th team, the ACC would need to add a 16th for balance. As the Big 12 can attest, the pool of expansion candidates is exceedingly shallow, and there are few that meet both the ACC’s academic and athletic standards. Barring a collapse of the Big 12 that makes Texas available, or Villanova jumping to FBS – the Wildcats are light years away from that, not to mention millions of dollars – only Navy makes sense.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/...1.html#emlnl=morning_newsletter#storylink=cpy
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And there are issues that go beyond Notre Dame. Even if Notre Dame wanted to become the ACC’s 15th team, the ACC would need to add a 16th for balance. As the Big 12 can attest, the pool of expansion candidates is exceedingly shallow, and there are few that meet both the ACC’s academic and athletic standards. Barring a collapse of the Big 12 that makes Texas available, or Villanova jumping to FBS – the Wildcats are light years away from that, not to mention millions of dollars – only Navy makes sense.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/...1.html#emlnl=morning_newsletter#storylink=cpy
Just thought Opie and I should pass this along.
