From: james.m.gibson@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 12:30:59 PM UTC-4, xyzzy wrote:   
      
   >    
   > suddenly obsessed with preparing for an exodus of its most valued members    
   > that by its own actions went from hypothetical to inevitable, has added    
   > three schools that bring nothing to the table in football or men’s    
   > basketball and are irrelevant in their own markets. Instead of booting    
   > Boston College from the league — that would have been the smart move! —   
   the    
   > ACC tripled down.    
   > So afraid of being left behind, 12 members of the ACC did the one thing    
   > that would assure they will be.   
      
   If you view this based on what is rumored to have happened with the Pac-12, it   
   makes sense from those members' standpoint.  Apparently, the Pac-12 died after   
   rejecting the merger with the Big 12, which was seemingly led by the Pac-12's   
   marquee value    
   school in USC.  Then, USC left anyway.  With Clemson and FSU already   
   threatening to leave before even considering the additions of Cal and   
   Stanford, the non-Clemson, FSU, and UNC schools probably figure those schools   
   are out anyway.  I'm not sure the "   
   exodus of its most valued members" is as hypothetical as this paragraph seems   
   to suggest.   
      
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