As the old saying goes, “The jokes write themselves.”
Stanford and SMU, both interested in joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, have called upon prominent power brokers in an attempt to make their case to ACC members.
We have written about the politics of Stanford’s situation relative to the ACC. We have pointed out that Stanford has a number of tools in the toolbox it can use to change the ACC’s current 11-4 vote on the Notre Dame proposal to allow Stanford and California to enter the conference. The ACC needs 12 votes to approve the move, so Stanford is one vote short.
Stanford apparently thinks that using longtime employee Condoleezza Rice, the former United States Secretary of State under President George W. Bush and a former member of the College Football Playoff selection committee, is worth a try in its attempt to influence the ACC’s member schools.
Speaking of George W. Bush: SMU has reportedly enlisted the former president to make the Mustangs’ case to the ACC.
Reaction on social media was swift … and hilarious.
Let’s get a sampling of the jokes which pretty much wrote themselves: