have seen a lot of talk about UNC and dook being tied at the hip...this idea has been WAY overblown, IMO...while they do work closely and tend to vote together in ACC matters, UNC will not tie themselves to the sinking blue devil ship during expansion...it wouldn't be difficult to schedule them OOC in basketball like UK/UL do

the underrated "partner" that would be key to moving UNC (and who UNC is supposedly working with behind closed doors) is UVa...the rumors on UNC boards are that UNC/UVa have reached out to B1G/SEC as landing spots should the ACC fall...apparently UVa prefers the B1G over the SEC, and the opposite is true for UNC (although not in the landslide that is felt amongst donors/fanbase)...this is why Delany is pushing hard for UVa to try to get Carolina to move, and for this reason (along with the academic angle) I could see UNC making the massive mistake of moving to the B1G

but this is all a moot point as long as the ACC doesn't lose any more significant members...UNC will not make the first move to kill the ACC...I think there is hope that the SEC would be the choice now that there's an AD and chancellor that were recently hired outside of the UNC system....it sure seems that Bubba Cunningham prefers the SEC over other options...it would be a slap in the face to what Mike Fox has done with the baseball program over the last decade to kill that program by relegating them to the B1G