Re: Conference Affiliations

[richard l. kandell]

Yesterday's paper here reported University of Miami officials had approved
the move of the athletic program from the Big East to the ACC.  The article
also stated that the ACC Commissioner was in favor of expansion, which it
asserted is currently 1 vote short of approval, with the University of North
Carolina and Dook the schools primarily opposed to adding new teams.  The
other 2 universities continuing to be mentioned along with Miami, to make it
a 12 team conference, are Syracuse and BC.

I assume that the Dookies are already so far down the totem pole with
respect to football that they don't want to add 3 more schools better then
they are.  I'm not sure what UNC's problem(s) would be, except I don't think
they want to share men's hoops money with any more schools then they do
already.

This looks like it is very close to becoming reality (I don't know how
strong either UNC or Duke is in opposition, and what can be done, if
anything, to appease them).  Even with those 3 schools leaving the Big East,
I'd leave C-USA and join the BE, especially if UofL and Memphis are
included, in a New York minute.

Richard K.