We honestly haven't really thought a whole lot about the recent ACC expansion which brings Stanford, Cal and Southern Methodist to the conference.
It’s a marriage of convenience if not desperation and no one really knows how it will work out.
Academically it’s a pretty good match. Athletically? Less than ideal since football is the driving force behind everything these days and none of these schools are football titans.
SMU has been out of the limelight for a long time. Some will recall that the Mustangs got the NCAA’s death penalty in 1987. Duke and SMU have a connection there - Chancellor Kenneth Pye left Duke to take over as SMU’s president after the devastating scandal.