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Can you acknowledge the college sports world is different by wpkirish
today than it was when we joined the ACC or that Hockey is entirely different from the other sports?
Sounds stupid to say this but you have to give something to get something. What would the Big 10 gain from us agreeing to play a slate of conference games similar to what we did with the ACC. Keep in Mind at the time we joined we had been playing 3-4 Big 10 games a year for a long time. What do they gain in an ACC type deal 2 games and they give up bowl access when they already have 4 schools with long histories at the top of the sport?
I am sure they want us now because the NCAA is headed to a world of 4 conferences and you will need all the names you can get.