CFT: Clemson, UNC join expansion rumor fray

, However, reported yesterday that, according to a high-ranking Texas Tech official, an unnamed member of the ACC is currently in talks with the SEC along with A&M.  So, if Level’s source is correct, and if it’s not FSU or Tech as officials at those schools have very publicly and vehemently stated, which current ACC member could it be?

Well, good morning Clemson!  How ya doin’ North Carolina!  Welcome to the expansion rumor mill fun!

According to a report Friday from Matt Hayes of the Sporting News , Clemson, along with Louisville (?), would be at the top of the SEC’s to-do list , provided the conference is unable to swipe Oklahoma from the Big 12.  Hayes writes that “Clemson would strengthen the overall sports program of the conference,” although the overriding criteria for any addition the SEC makes would seemingly be some combination of a school’s football stature and geographic footprint.

While Clemson sort of makes sense on some levels, especially the football one, the complete out-of-hand dismissal of the Seminoles and Hokies by Hayes while at the same time placing Louisville on any SEC expansion list, let alone at the top, is beyond head-scratching and stretches the bounds of reason to the point of snapping.  And that’s no offense to the fine institution in Louisville; relative to FSU and Tech, they just don’t do much to add to the SEC brand where it matters most: on the football field, although they would bring in the nation’s No. 48 television market.  (For comparison’s sake, Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson, of which Clemson is considered a part of, is the No. 36 TV market in the country.)

For what it’s worth on the Clemson front, Travis Sawchik of the Charleston Post and Courier writes that “[t]rustee chairman  David Wilkins  [said] Friday that no discussions of conference affiliation have taken place dating back to last summer when conference realignment talk was rampant.”

Another ACC name on the periphery of the SEC discussion, although even less so than Clemson, has been North Carolina.  Perhaps because of the recent NCAA issues involving the football program that bled onto the academic side of the institution, there has been little talk of any type of Tar Heels-to-SEC scenario, although the expansion talk in May/June of 2010 predated the NCAA problems and there was little chatter regarding UNC leaving the ACC even then.  More than a year later, however, the Tar Heels are the subject of at least one rumor connecting them to the SEC.

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