All bullshitting aside, once Clemson and FSU leave the ACC....the B1G and SEC are going to relegate the ACC to a Group of 5 level status and we'll be better off joining forces with the Mountain West. The problem is that the FOMO is so overwhelming that programs are willing to accept sh!tty deals just so it doesn't get any worse....all while ignoring that the "getting worse" part is inevitable. The problem of course it that in general, people lack ethics and integrity. They'll make sh!tty unethical and shortsighted decisions that they believe in their best self interests in the short term even though it's clearly a bad decision in the long term.
Joining up with the ACC may be a good short term decision but it's a bad long term decision and won't hold up.
Even without FSU, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia, Miami, the ACC would still be better then MWC, AAC, and the rest of G5, because of Duke, Pitt, Louisville, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Virginia Yech, NC State, etc.
And joining a whole entire G5 conference IS NOT the way to go.
The way to go is to merge with THE BEST of ALL the G5 conferences, combined together into 1 merged conference, whether that conference is called PAC X or ACC, whichever has the best brand name, and organize into a COAST TO COAST, whole entire USA league, with PODS, DIVISIONS, that would SOLVE TRAVEL concerns.
An example of such of conference would be:
West Division.
WSU, OSU, CAL, SDSU, FRESNO ST, BSU, SMU
Central Division
UNLV, AIRFORCE, UTAH STATE, TULANE, MEMPHIS, COLORADO ST, IOWA ST(when it gets booted out of Big 12)
East Division
Pitt, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Duke, Boston College
Call that conference the PAC 18/20 or the ACC.
That conference would be a semi G5/semi P5 hybrid, that would probably get about, 17 to 20 to 23 mil per team per year, 1 GUARANTED CFP SPOT(as long as at least a 10-2 conference champ), 1,2 NY6 January bowl slots to either Orange, Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach, and would have Gator Bowl, Insight Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Vegas Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Sun Bowl.
Then Gonzaga, ST Mary's, Uconn, Villanova, could, would be added for basketball only
SUCH A CONFERENCE WOULD RAKE, VACUUM UP A HELL OF A LOT OF MONEY FROM ESPN, FOX, APPLE, AMAZON, CFP ACCESS, NY6 BOWLS, BOWLS, NCAA TOURNAMENT UNITS, ETC.
SUCH A CONFERENCE WOULD NOT HAVE TRAVEL PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF PODS, DIVISIONS.
SUCH A CONFERENCE WOULD BE BETTER THEN A WESTERN ONLY CONFERENCE, OR EITHER JOINING WHOLE ENTIRE MWC, OR REVERSE MERGING WHOLE ENTIRE MWC INTO PAC.