Found (thanks Spilly).

It’s official. The paperwork is complete. All faxed in to the home office. No give backs, ACC. You are stuck with us now.

Odd little visual quirk of this. ND, Pitt and Cuse all fit in alphabetically in one little group. And when Louisville comes in next year, they will be slotted right where Maryland was.

So we toast to the new ACC and pour one out for the old Big East.

The money coming in is good news.

Next year, all of Pitt’s varsity sports teams will be funded with full allotments of scholarships with the exception of men’s soccer. Pitt’s baseball team, for example, played this season using 9.3 of the 11.7 scholarships it is allotted. Next year, they will have the entire 11.7.

“We’re not going to change dramatically how we do things, but scholarship funding and so forth does make a difference in terms of how many players you have on your team, and probably the quality of players you have on your team,” Pederson said. “I think everybody’s going to be at a great competitive advantage.”

Not that I expect the whole athletic department to be radically different, but I would love to see so some commitment to boost the assistant salary pool.

Ninja Commish Swofford has penned the letter of welcoming.

We are proud to officially welcome Notre Dame, Pitt and Syracuse to the ACC.  Our conference has long enjoyed a rich tradition of balancing academics and athletics, and the addition of these outstanding member institutions further strengthens our league.

Please join us today as we celebrate this grand occasion by ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ in New York City. We hope you will make plans to watch the press conference this afternoon at 2 p.m., followed by the closing ceremony beginning at 3:45 p.m. Both events will be carried live on ESPN3 and The ACC Digital Network on theACC.com.

Wheeee.

We are moving forward as a true Atlantic Coast Conference, with membership spanning from New England to South Florida. But with the addition of Notre Dame — and Louisville in 2014 — the ACC’s reach will extend far beyond the Eastern Seaboard.

When one looks at the geographic area that composes the ACC, we have the most television households and highest population of any conference nationally. In addition, it is projected that by 2030, 55 percent of the U.S. population will lie within the ACC footprint. Our marketplace opportunities, along with the population numbers, both current and projected, give the ACC enormous potential as a conference over the next 15 years and beyond.

Give us our own network, ESPN! Money! Money! Money!

It is fair to say this is the strongest collection of basketball programs that has ever been assembled in one conference, and our potential from a football standpoint is unlimited. The addition of our newest member schools greatly enhances our Olympic sports, which already have consistently ranked second to none.

Did they lift this from the Big East press release, circa 2003? I think they did.

The ACC has led FBS conferences in overall average ranking the last six years, and our new members only bolsters our league’s academic credentials. The ACC’s 15 member institutions rank first among BCS automatic qualifying conferences in the latest US News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” list by any measure.

Try and leave us Florida State, and you start running with a dumber crowd.

And remember, in the new ACC, Pitt is second only to Miami in number of Denny’s in the area.