Sources: ACC Presidents met tonight and the pursuit of Stanford and Cal for conference membership has “hit significant roadblocks.” There’d always been long odds because there wasn’t ever a significant value add. Source
Roadblocks? You mean the Rocky Mountains?
I think he means the Mississippi river
Yup. And I wouldn’t exactly call Cal or Stanford dynamite, so…
One of the many hurdles will be waiting for the rest of the world to agree to rename the Pacific Ocean into Atlantic Ocean 2.
“We realized we were holding the map upside-down”
So how long before Stanford and Cal join the ACC?
I can’t wait forthe intellectual rivalry that Stanford-Florida State will become.
I’m pretty sure every realignment deal we’ve heard this offseason we were told that there were “significant roadblocks” like a week before the deal goes through.
All the reporting now is that FSU, Clemson, UNC, and NCSU voted no. Gonna have to lean on the Wolfpack if they’re going to make this work.
I feel like you push FSU, since they want out anyway. Frame it as a way out for them. Just need SEC to sign off and honestly I don’t want em
