[alnorth]

At this point, its probably best to step back from realignment speculation until maybe the 2nd week of June, unless some real mainstream media breaks something. Just about every reasonable and unreasonable scenario (UL, UC, FSU, UM, VT, MD, UND olympic sports, UND full member, BYU, mystery team, 2 of them or 4 of them, in some order) has been tossed out there and argued on.

I think right now, no one is saying or leaking anything, and all we've got are bloggers making guesses hoping to make a name for themselves if they are right. (I lump bloggers and media confidently saying nothing will happen at the same level, or even lower. Hey, maybe they wont move, but there's obviously a very good reason for the rumors. Given the ACC's ridiculously bad contract, and given FSU and Clemson have to compete with the SEC, it makes no sense to go out on a limb and say they are ACC 4 lyfe)

No one is going to do anything until late June at the absolute earliest because we need to know exactly what the new BCS postseason will look like. The Big 12 actually has to sign their new contract too, but that'll happen soon, and when it does we'll get another flurry of rumors. ACC teams also have all the way until August 15 to notify their conference that they'll leave, so there's no reason for them to hurry.

We're probably looking at mid-late July for any real news, maybe later.