I read an article on this. The article said the ACC may not be interested. Are Stanford and Cal "additive" to conference revenue, is the stated reason for uncertainty. The article mentioned in passing that Notre Dame was a full ACC member in all sports except tackle football. I have two questions and as predicate I refer to Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz' statement/questions:
"I thought the transfer window, I thought the portal was closed. Oh, that's just for the student-athletes. The adults in the room get to do whatever they want, apparently.
"My question is: Did we count the cost? And I’m not talking about the financial cost. I’m talking about: Did we count the cost for the student-athletes involved in this decision? What cost is it to those student-athletes? We’re talking about a football decision, they based [it] on football, but what about softball and baseball, who have to travel cross-country? Did we ask about the cost to them?
"Do we know what the No. 1 indicator or symptom of or cause of mental health [issues] is? It’s lack of rest and sleep. Traveling in those baseball, softball games, those people, they travel commercial, they get done playing, they gotta go to the airport, they come back, it’s 3 or 4 in the morning, they gotta go to class. I mean, did we ask any of them?"
I know without knowing that the Stanford and Cal administrations have not canvassed their student-athletes, which answers the first of my questions, "Did they ask the students?" in the negative. My second question asks in mitigation of the effects of the first, "Why can't Stanford and Cal join only in tackle football?" The answer to that is that neither football program would be "additive" to the ACC's bank account so I have answered both of my own questions and will move on.
