[Cactus Jack]

I don’t understand how Louisville can have a coaching search, and not give musselman a call. He’s a better coach that anyone they have talked about. Maybe they can’t afford him is the only reason I would know why they haven’t reached out.

Musselman already makes around $5 million per and I'd have to think that Louisville would need to pay him substantially more than that to leave Arkansas for the uncertainty that would come with the being a member of the ACC.

There's a reason that outside of Baylor, they have been linked to the coaches from smaller conferences without strong football teams.

Louisville probably knows that they are in a precarious spot right now.

As is, the ACC is locked into a less than ideal contract with the networks and won't be getting the type of football revenue that's going to the SEC or Big Ten. That's why Florida State and now Clemson are looking for a way out and others are waiting to see what happens and making contingency plans.

Football will rule the day in realignment, and any changes to the deal that the ACC is locked into probably means that they've lost at least two of their best programs, and I don't see them finding equal replacements.

I don't see serious interest in adding them coming from the Big Ten or SEC.

The Big XII is probably the best fit, but they're already at 16 teams. Do they add more? If the Cards join, the basketball schedule would possibly be better than the ACC once you get past Carolina and Duke (Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma State, Houston, Cincinnati, Baylor, etc.), but does that help their recruiting? What do the cross-country road trips for all sports do to their overall budget and fan base?

Outside of what's already mentioned, the possibilities are even worse. I don't think that they'll be left out in the cold this badly, but their odds of getting lost in the shuffle and landing in the American Athletic Conference aren't that much lower than their odds of winding up in the SEC or Big Ten.