What Does The ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12 Alliance Mean For Smaller Conferences?

Photo by Benjamin Solomon/Getty Images Could Duke-UCLA become a more regular thing with the alliance?The new alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 proposes to do good things for those conferences, but what about the others?

Good question.

As Gary Parrish points out, the more games that the three schedule amongst themselves, the less there are for other conferences to latch onto.

The AAC Commissioner, Mike Aresco, has already said he wants in.

Of course there are two major aspects to the whole situation: football and basketball.

In basketball, it’s next to impossible for lesser conferences to get Power Five teams to play at their venues and of course, you need good games to get a decent…