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I think at times "we" view this too much through a football lens, which is not entirely wrong of course, it drives $$$.  And adding more powerhouses to a conference ends up making schedules that much tougher, fewer "Vandys" to play and scorch.  An ideal add would be a program like UNC that has resources but modest football, excellent in other sports, a flagship in the state, same with UVA.

The problem with UNC I think is Duke and NCSU and to a lesser extent Wake.  UNC and UVA tick the academic box pretty nicely I think.

Georgia Tech is a mess in football, they do OK in some other sports like baseball.  They also have a large student body, but many of them are Asian or simply don't care about sports (NERDS!!!).  Tech should and could be a peach, as it were, but they aren't.  Maybe addition to the B1G would light their fires?

Yeah, aside from perhaps the massive exit fees, they would.

I doubt Notre Dame would bolt at this point.

ND depends on that TV contract, if that dissipates ...

with 12-team divisions and 11 game schedules, I guess there's room for 1 non-con game each season.
would you always use that one game for ND?  if you are stanford or USC?

ND's tv contract goes to crap if they are relegated to playing the service academies and others outside the group of 48 

yup, a 3rd 24 team conference would be great, but they would be a lesser far behind the other two in terms of content and TV revenue.  All revenue.

72 teams is a better number

If the Pac retained all the CA schools and added the B12 schools, they'd be OK.

The new B12 is getting much better TV deals than the PAC leftovers, so... why would the B12 teams agree to that?

OK, a 3rd conference of 12 teams

the PAC doesn't care about football, they can go to Div II