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Louisville will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, becoming the sixth former Big East school to leave for the ACC, sources told ESPN.
The ACC's presidents and chancellors voted to add the Cardinals Wednesday morning to replace Maryland, which will leave for the Big Ten in 2014.
Louisville is expected to join the ACC in the same season, sources said. Big East rules require a $10 million exit fee and 27 months notice, but the Cardinals -- like several schools before them -- should be able to negotiate a higher buyout to leave before the 27-month period.
The ACC also considered UConn and Cincinnati for membership. However, sources told ESPN the league only wanted Louisville because there is a sense among league presidents that the ACC can add more schools at a later date if the ACC lost any other schools.
The addition of the Cardinals and loss of the Terrapins should provide the ACC an immediate upgrade in football and several areas.
In the past four seasons, Louisville is 27-22, compared to 17-32 by Maryland. Under Coach Charlie Strong, UL is 23-14 in the past three years, including 9-2 this season. The Cardinals can win the Big East title by defeating Rutgers Thursday.
The Cards' future looks strong as well. Of Louisville's 22 starters, only five are seniors compared to 10 sophomore or freshmen starters.
Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.
In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.
The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.
Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.
Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.
The addition of Louisville will not affect the ACC's new media rights deal. When the ACC added Notre Dame in all sports but football in September, sources told ESPN the ACC's media rights deal was expected to increase to about $18 million annually.
When Louisville joins the ACC in 2014, the league would have a 14-team football league in 2014 with Notre Dame a full ACC member in every sport but football.
The ACC will mark Louisville's third football conference since 1996 when it joined Conference USA after being an independent for the previous 21 years. UL was in C-USA from 1996-2004 before leaving for the Big East in 2005.
Louisville's departure marks the seventh school in the past year that has announced it is leaving the Big East along with West Virginia, TCU, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Rutgers.
Because of all the defections, the Big East is scheduled to add nine schools between 2013 and 2015 -- Boise State, San Diego State, SMU, Houston, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, East Carolina and Navy.
Louisville's move to the ACC is the latest in the never-ending musical chairs known as conference realignment. In the past few years, the nation's top five conferences -- SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC -- have announced the addition of 12 new members, causing a wave of disruption among virtually every Division I conference from coast-to-coast.
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I'm beyond annoyed with all of this shifting. I can't even keep things straight at this point. I wish we could just take an entire year to re-align everything and be done with it.
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
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the ACC had just jumped ahead of the Big10 in US-News overall rankings of schools.
now they are completely ignoring academics?
ACC -- Average of 51.2
8. Duke
24. Virginia
27. Wake Forest
30. North Carolina
31. Boston College
36. Georgia Tech
44. Miami
58. Syracuse
58. Maryland
58. Pittsburgh
68. Clemson
72. Virginia Tech
97. Florida State
106. North Carolina State
160. Louisville
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When has academics ever really mattered when it comes to collegiate sports? You're kidding yourself if you think it does (or ever really DID for that matter). It's all about the dollars.
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When has academics ever really mattered when it comes to collegiate sports? You're kidding yourself if you think it does (or ever really DID for that matter). It's all about the dollars.
it does matter. don't get me wrong, media markets ($$) matter just as much. but, certain conferences (the Big10 and the ACC except for Louisville now) have prided themselves on having an overall good academic and athletic conference.
the Big10 rakes in the most money of any conference from their sports while having the best academics (debatable w/ the ACC until now on that side). that is a HUGE source of pride for the university presidents.
it's why Rutgers (#68) and Maryland (#58) were considered fits in the Big10 (in addition to their markets) while we never considered WVU, Louisville, Cincinatti, etc.
it's also why we apparently passed on Missouri with the KC/St.Louis/Jackson markets (though they did rank slightly above Nebraska - showing it's a balancing act here).
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I wish we could just take an entire year to re-align everything and be done with it.
No joke.
Just have everyone sit down. Figure out how many AQ conferences there are, and how many teams per conferance and whatnot and just divide them up...
Am I the only one that pronounces hyperbole "Hyper-bowl" instead of "hy-per-bo-le"?
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I was bored. So I made 5 Super Conferences.
16 teams each. Is it TOTALLY realistic? No. A lot of lower teir teams being brought up with teams they may not be able to hang with. Flip side of that is giving them more money, allows them to get better...
New teams in Bold
ACC/Big East Combo
Boston College
Cincinnati
Clemson
Conneticut
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Lousiville
Miami
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Big 10
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Toledo
Wisconsin
Big 12
Baylor
Boise State
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Rice
SMU
Southern Miss
TCU
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia
UTEP
Pac 12
Arizona
Arizona State
BYU
California
Colorado
Colorado State
Fresno State
Oregon
Oregon State
San Diego State
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Utah
Washington
Washington State
SEC
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Central Florida
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Ole Miss
South Carolina
South Florida
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Vanderbuilt
Am I the only one that pronounces hyperbole "Hyper-bowl" instead of "hy-per-bo-le"?
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swap out Toledo for Navy and it's a pretty nice list
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Or sub Iowa state in for Toledo and add Texas state to the big xii.
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Or sub Iowa state in for Toledo and add Texas state to the big xii.
why would Texas State (San Marcos) get in over UTSA? UTSA is already the better program in the bigger city.
and they beat Texas State on the field this year
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Texas State beat Houston, so they go in ahead of Houston? Plus, Texas State is FBS... Isn't UTSA FCS?
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Texas State beat Houston, so they go in ahead of Houston? Plus, Texas State is FBS... Isn't UTSA FCS?
both are in the WAC
Larry Coker is coaching UTSA now. gotta love realignment 
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