[Senator Clay Davis]

The prestige and national appeal of Duke and Carolina is high, but moreso in basketball. All of this realignment stuff is more or less about securing massive contracts for football. Virginia Tech has been far and away the ACC's best football school for a decade now, and I do think the SEC would rather add two seperate TV markets than simply one with two great programs (hence why they added A&M and....Missouri? Not a big national appeal there, but access to a new TV market). Unfortunetly realignment is about appealing to TV executives and not the quality of the universities (Rutgers in the Big 10???). Executives will pay more for two seperate markets than one.