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HOO86

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The WAC covered 4 time zones, and got almost ZERO TV money.


I'm not proposing that the ACC create a 20 team league covering 4 time zones. I'm looking at 2 time zones with 15 of the members in one and 5 in the other. The SEC and Big Ten deal with those 2 time zones without much complaint.

Travel expenses and lack of good revenue to cover them doomed the WAC more than any other reason. Rice to Hawaii was about 3200 miles each way. They also cobbled together members from the original WAC, the Southwest Conference, the Missouri Valley Conference, and the Big West Conference. I also don't see where they ever got to 20. The largest the WAC got was 16 members. Their makeup was never give time to mesh. It didn't work at all geographically.

The ACC has merged with Big East members and done that over a long span. I think the league is meshing very well. If you kept that cohesive division with Texas as a unit, you could merge that in relatively well because it keeps the feel of what they have today while rotating to the east coast.

[Post edited by HOO86 at 05/03/2016 3:17PM]

(In response to this post by VTHokie2000)

Posted: 05/03/2016 at 3:17PM


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  It could work if you have regional divisions. -- HOO86 05/03/2016 2:54PM
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