Penn State? -- Fuhgedaboutit!
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ACCBBallFan
I am not sure what the board policy is on posting links from other Bball sites, so I will not post the link here.
For the people who say Penn State to ACC would never happen, take a look at the Scout thread on "Expansion Talk" (page 25) or at least allow me to give credit to a poster named kwc222 who did the driving distance analysis. I will just show the order and not steal all their distance and times:
Penn State clsoest to:
1. Pitt
2. Maryland
(Rutgers)
3. Syracuse
4. UVA
5. Ohio St is B1G school closest to State College PA.
6. VA Tech
7. Michigan but Penn State in other conference
8. Mich St ditto on other conference
9. Boston College
(Notre Dame)
10. Eight other B1G in this order Indiana/Purdue, NW, Illini, Wisc, Iowa, MN and Nebraska
I was too lazy to look up all the other ACC teams but obviously also a hike from Penn St to eight other ACC schools Miami, FSU, GA Tech, Clemson, 4 Carolina schools etc.
ACC Ball Fan -- I appreciate your diligence, but the Penn-State-to-the-ACC bit is getting tedious. First the Big Ten is a money machine without parallel. No one is changing conferences to get "fewer dollars." Second distances between schools, although important, are secondary. Third, with apologies to A-Tex Devil, our OP and a hard-working poster, and any well-meaning Aggie and Oklahoma fans, Penn State does not seem like the kind of "home wrecker" these folks have turned out to be. I don't see Penn State jumping ship without being pushed by extraordinary events. This is the flip side of my argument that the ACC is a secure conference because the schools are comfortable in it, like each other OK (the fans are another matter), and have a measure of loyalty common to college athletics.
And the instability in the Big East has nothing to do with Penn State and the Big Ten. I mean, the Big East makes a lot of sense as a large basketball conference (16/17 teams) and no sense as a football conference with 8/9 teams. As a measure of its irrationality, Notre Dame voted against the $1B football TV deal, and it doesn't even play football in the conference. That seems to have been the final straw for Pitt, if not Syracuse.
sagegrouse