We are in the southeast quadrant of the United States. I do have a few letters about what ‘southeast’ means. Yeah, we’re in contiguous states, southeast quadrant. I’m not sure we want to use the word ‘trumped’ all the time these days. Oklahoma and Texas are slated to join the SEC in 2025, and the conference believes it acquired the best two schools possible. In the eyes of Sankey, this isn’t really a question. Which was the bigger coup: the SEC adding Oklahoma and Texas or the Big Ten adding USC and UCLA? So you respect it, and I know that if there comes a time that Notre Dame would consider moving to a conference and away from independence, I feel really good about it being the ACC. Having worked there, having two children there, going to school right now, one a student-athlete, I know what independence means to Notre Dame. They know that we would love to have them as a football member in the conference, but we also and I also respect their independence. I sat here a year ago talking about Notre Dame and whenever I’ve been asked the question, we continue to remain close with Notre Dame. We want to work together to try to provide more resources to our student-athletes, so we’re all on the same page. That’s all I’ve heard in all the calls that we’ve had. I love our 15 schools, and I’m confident in us staying together. But the ACC has been viewed as the least stable of the three, in large part because the conference’s revenue falls far short of that of the Big Ten and SEC. The ACC, Big Ten and SEC are the only Power Five conferences as yet untouched - meaning they haven’t been looted by another conference - by the latest round of conference realignment. I actually am watching a lot of this activity operating around us, more so than impacting us directly. We’re going to be evaluating the landscape. Could they be out there? I would never say they’re not. We’re not just shooting for a number of affiliations that make us better. There’s no sense of urgency, no sense of panic. But we’ll watch what happens around us and be thoughtful but be nimble. Don’t feel pressured to just operate at a number. We’re really looking forward to the expansion and being at 16 teams. On October 17, 2003, Boston College accepted an invitation to become the league's 12th member starting with the 2005-06 academic year.īelow is a table of ACC schools with links to each institution's home page and to each office that is the equivalent of Clemson's Office of Institutional Research and Planning.The great news for the Southeastern Conference is that people call and say, ‘Hey, you’re doing something really special.’ They kind of hint around the edges. The conference expanded to 11 members on July 1, 2004, with the addition of the University of Miami and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The ACC expanded to nine members on July 1, 1991, with the addition of Florida State. The Atlanta school withdrew from the Southeastern Conference in January of 1964. The ACC operated with seven members until April 3, 1978, when Georgia Tech was admitted. The first, and only, withdrawal of a school from the ACC came on Jwhen the University of South Carolina tendered its resignation. On December 4, 1953, conference officials met again at Sedgefield and officially admitted the University of Virginia. On June 14, 1953, the seven members met in Raleigh, N.C., where a set of bylaws was adopted and the name became officially the Atlantic Coast Conference. The withdrawal of seven schools from the Southern Conference came early on the morning of May 8, 1953, during the Southern Conference's annual spring meeting. The Atlantic Coast Conference was founded on May 8, 1953, at the Sedgefield Inn near Greensboro, N.C., with seven charter members - Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest - drawing up the conference by-laws.
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