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Wake isn't leaving the P-5. Their athletics dept......


will benefit from all the money ($25-$30 million) that they get from ESPN/ACCN. Wake would be foolish to drop football and leave the P-5. Wake is in the ACC as long as they want.

That being said, if Wake were in Cincinnati's or UConn's shoes (G-5 schools hoping to join a Power 5 conference), no P-5 conference would find them attractive. UConn. BYU, Cincinnati, UCF, USF, Houston, SDSU,....all bring more to the table. Wake is probably the 5th most popular college in the state sports fan-wise (behind UNC, NC State, Duke, and ECU maybe even behind Charlotte). They have the smallest student enrollment of any FBS school. They have a very small living alumni fan base. They have a small football stadium and a small unenthusiastic football fan base. I'd bet that the P-5 conferences would find ECU or Charlotte more attractive than Wake Forest today.

Wake is very fortunate to make the right conference decision in 1953. No one is going to kick them out and they aren't going to leave as long as there's an ACC.

(In response to this post by chuckd4vt)

Posted: 06/12/2016 at 11:35AM



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  Be careful what you wish for. -- Snape 06/12/2016 10:35PM
  Talk of kicking Wake out is asinine. -- crabcake77 06/12/2016 12:31PM
  Change the names in this deal. -- Maroon Doom 06/12/2016 10:48AM
  ^This guy gets its!! -- Burnss 06/12/2016 6:05PM
  Come on -- Roanokie 06/13/2016 6:00PM
  You being such a business guru, then you -- Burnss 06/12/2016 6:13PM
  Chuck as you get older and wiser you will find -- Maroon Doom 06/12/2016 3:00PM
  ^ humble brag -- Burnss 06/12/2016 6:31PM
  I wish people would just drop this topic -- ahokie4u 06/11/2016 8:21PM
  Talking about WF on TSL is like shouting in a forest... -- jesuisvtguy 06/12/2016 10:57AM
  I love having Wake Forest in the ACC -- Bruin2Hokie 06/12/2016 11:44AM
  Concur - also va tech has academic partnership -- Mercury 06/12/2016 07:39AM
  Why are you guys so sensitive about Wake? -- chuckd4vt 06/12/2016 03:06AM
  Wake isn't leaving the P-5. Their athletics dept...... -- Old Line Hokie 06/12/2016 11:35AM
  The post you replied to has good reasons. Also -- Colonel Jessup 06/12/2016 10:31AM
  All the "Getting Rid" talk is just nonsense. -- obxhokies 06/11/2016 7:53PM
  Where did the WF chatter come from? Just TSL I think... -- jesuisvtguy 06/11/2016 7:26PM
  Wake is here to stay, no matter what anyone wants -- Calamitous 06/11/2016 6:11PM
  That's fine with me. -- hokieball 06/11/2016 10:17PM
  For me, PSU > ND.... -- Calamitous 06/12/2016 05:18AM
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