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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Let's assume for a moment all TV contracts go out the window and every conference starts fresh - which conference will get the more favorable TV contracts: Big Ten as currently constituted - Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, and Maryland - OR ACC...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Good post. But while I do agree no one knew for sure exactly how BCS/P5 conference expansion would play out in this century, I think there were quite a few that got the general trends, the forces involved in bringing it about, and most of the likely candidates right. Cheers, Neil
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    If we're going to fantasize, let's go "All In!"

    When one posts as often as JRsec, there will be times they get things wrong particularly since no one truly escapes their biases, but more often than not he brings a lot to the conversations. He also can admit when he is wrong or at the very least recognizes someone else's view may have...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Like I said above I don't see it actually happening just that the ACC has a bb-centric option that ends the discussion this thread began if they so choose. As for the football schools in the ACC (which I will for purposes of this post classify as FSU, Clemson, GT, Miami and VT) getting solidly...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Oh I agree that it is unlikely to happen, just pointing out that if UConn's addition to the BE somehow got (in reality, not hypothetically) that league closer to the way the BE of 2006-2013 was functioning that the ACC has a checkmate bb-centric move of their own if they wanted to exercise that...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Yes, it would. As a standard I am using the 2011-2015 Baylor span where they won 10+ four times in five years with 13 game seasons and our own run from 1991 through 1997 where we won 9+ five times in seven years with 12 game seasons (except for 97 which had 13 games that year). Then there will...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    Offer 1-3 Big East schools (not named UConn) membership in the ACC. Again, not the most desirable move by/for the ACC but options are limited as it is on the football side and this move would only be made if a boost needed in the ACCN monies and/or if ACC basketball takes a huge step backwards...
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    If we're going to fantasize, let's go "All In!"

    Yeah those were fun times over on the Conference Realignment Boards, but as I recall it was more FSU and Clemson to the Big 12 rather than FSU and GT (but there were a few who advocated that as well). Cheers, Neil
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    If we're going to fantasize, let's go "All In!"

    There was once a time over on the Conference Realignment Boards when all the rumors were about the ACC imploding I jokingly suggested that if the ACC imploded that ND, BC, Pitt and SU would go to the Pac-12/16. Months later that actually was taken to heart and other posters (including the great...
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    How does UConn’s move to the NBE affect us?

    If indeed its does help them, and I think it is at the very least conceivable that it might (though not likely), then the ACC 5-7 years down the road could have an equally conceivable (though not likely) move they can exercise that would make it moot especially since by then it will be apparent...
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    ACC Revenue Reaches $465 Million

    Syracuse's final BE share was a little over $11 million. Cheers, Neil
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    Fun hypothetical question I came across yesterday.

    2 more for JB 2 for Dino 1 for Q Syracuse all the way. Let's Go Orange Cheers, Neil
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    Hopkins wins PAC12 COY...again.

    I wish nothing but the best for Hop. And while I don't see him ever coming back after JB retires, I would be ecstatic if proven wrong on this. As for RP, what precisely are the rules on the "coaching tree"? If it is your first head coach, then not sure JB would count since RP was both a...
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    MVPs vs. Pitt - Pick 3

    Chukwu Boeheim Hughes Frank was great as well but just a very slight notch below those three. Cheers, Neil
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    If you could realistically choose, what seed would you make SU and why?

    Agree with those who say 10 or 7. Hate the 8/9 slots. Cheers, Neil
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    How Good Should The Program Be Yearly?

    I think the four main factors that laid the groundwork for our success from 09 to 14 were 1) the 2003 natty; 2) Melo's initial success in the NBA; 3) the strength of the Big East being back to the league's strength from 1982-91 with the substractions of VT, Miami, and BC and the gains of...
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    If Buddy hadn't figured some things out

    It doesn't have to be Buddy. Maybe Frank is experiencing some PTSD as a result of him watching Jalen make the same mistakes he did as a frosh and those flashbacks are screwing with his mind? Cheers, Neil
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    louisville

    Yep. As someone else mentioned in another thread all of the ACC top echelon teams have a back-loaded schedule. Cheers, Neil
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    Lunardi is "smoking" that funny stuff again

    It's not just Lunardi. The composite Bracket Matrix also has 10 from the Big Ten right now as well. Of the Power 6 conferences through yesterday's games the composite Bracket has: Big Ten - 10/14 Big 12 - 8/10 SEC - 8/14 ACC - 8/15 BE - 4/10 PAC - 2/12 Only other multiple bid conference...
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    Jalen Carey...what gives?!

    Last statement is so true for me as well. JB has always played the odds. He knows the future schedule more than anyone so he knows the past two road games and these upcoming two home games are needed to provide a safe cushion for the remaining part of the schedule. However, if we get a 15...
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    Brisset

    Brissett listed as 6'8" and 210. Cheers, Neil
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    Positive thoughts and Bubble Question

    At this point I see the ACC tiers as Duke, UVA, and UNC, then VT, L'Ville, and us, and then FSU/NCST after that. Obviously subject to change as the season progresses. Cheers, Neil
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    "play" of the game...

    I was surprised McGowens was smart enough to kick out with his right leg when Brissett's momentum was obviously taking him that way and then kicked out with his left leg when Howard's momentum was going in that direction. As others have said, not a natural shooting move. Maybe next time he...
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    Positive thoughts and Bubble Question

    My gut is telling me we will finish with 12 ACC wins this year, at worse, 11 wins. We will not be bubble at that time, despite the putrid OOC. This team is starting to remind me of our 2016 team that didn't truly come together until the NCAAs whereas this team started to gel once ACC play...
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    Of our remaining opponents...

    I want to beat Louisville at home, UNC on the road and UVA in the ACC Championship game. Am I greedy? ;) Cheers, Neil
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    The all-inclusive Rutgers dumpster fire thread...

    B1G got a huge increase in their national TV rights starting in 2017 so I bet Rutgers will receive its full share of the BTN (which will likely accounts for most of the huge jump from $28 million in 2020 to $43 million) in 2021 seven years after joining the Big Ten, but I bet they will get paid...
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    I told you guys Clemson and Syracuse were rivals.

    Fun thread and amusing article. The ACC needs as many good football programs as it can get but this game is not a rivalry. It's our "measuring stick" game as to where we are as a program. The fact that it has the appearance as a budding rivalry tells me we are most definitely heading in the...
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    10 games left in the regular season

    This ACC conference season is starting to remind me a lot of the 2008-09 Big East. By the end of January we had 9 games to go, we were only 5-4 in conference, and we still had to face Nova (a FF team that year) twice, UConn (another FF team that year), a Top 20 Marquette team, and WVU (who was...
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    15% of Clemson players tested test positive for PED's

    But haven't the WADA guidelines for performance enhancement been increased tenfold from 15 to now 150 nanograms per milliliter of urine? That's an awful lot of pot smoking in the immediate time prior to the testing. And the supposed purpose for the increase was to distinguish those athletes...
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    Interesting quote by Frank

    Agree to an extent, but while never winning a conference regular season or tourney title, he has just as many Elite 8s and Sweet 16s as Jamie Dixon without as many good players and he's only 46 years old. He's someone I wouldn't mind at least being in the mix after JB retires. Cheers, Neil
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    Buddy?

    Learn something new every day. I always thought the VT in his handle was for Vermont. LOL Cheers, Neil
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    Cory Alexander...

    You could be right but I don't remember. ;) Cheers, Neil
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    SOLD OUT! Dome Will Be Electric For 'Cuse vs Duke

    Agree in principle but following a legend can be difficult. And being a Top 10 program doesn't necessarily mean getting a Top 10 coach. Assuming that Hop is totally out of the picture (which I do) and that we don't go the SU assistant coach elevated to head coach we likely pick someone in...
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    Another great coaching move from Boeheim re: Chukwu

    It looked to me like JB almost pulled him again early in the second half, but Chukwu made an easy basket and he called back the sub, but couldn't quite make it out on TV. Might have been an entirely different substitution but it was very early which usually means PC. :) Cheers, Neil
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    Anybody we can't play with?

    Exactly. Besides Zion and Barrett, O'Connell was the one who kept Duke close in our game. He's the one who got the key threes when they needed them. He has gotten little play in their last two games and Reddish hasn't been that impressive. Jones was their only true loss for our game and...
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    I was told Hughes was going to be the best player on the squad

    If Oshae finds his and Chukwu contributes the way he has the last three games, the sky is the limit for this team. LGO!!! Cheers, Neil
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    Va Tech QB Josh Jackson transferring to Maryland

    Don't need no damn film. Those throws he made in the championship game against the Tide are burned into my brain. Hope he has an "off-day" when we play. Cheers, Neil
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    2022 Schedule Change

    Have you seen who the Buckeyes have played over the past six seasons and who they are scheduled to play over the next 7 seasons after next year? And that is with only 3 available slots. The OSU 2019 OOC schedule is a blip. I am not suggesting we aim that high but if we get rolling we should...
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    2022 Schedule Change

    Totally agree for where the program is NOW. But if we truly take off like we hope at a certain point we will want to schedule tougher than we are currently in the years we don't play ND out of conference. Don't want to see us become Baylor with an FCS opponent and SMU/Rice mostly annually...
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    Va Tech QB Josh Jackson transferring to Maryland

    LOL. In all seriousness though, if UVA doesn't win the Coastal next year they likely never will. VT a mess, Miami almost as bad a mess, Pitt losing a lot of key contributors, GT and UNC total rebuilds. The stars are aligning for the Cavaliers. Can they handle the pressure of being the...
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    Duke friends say Duke will STILL be #1

    I think the best we can hope for is "receiving votes". Ugh, those losses to Old Dominion and Georgia Tech hurt us. But it is what it is. Cheers, Neil
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    So what will be SU record going into the ACC tournamen?

    I'd rather we play Louisville AND Notre Dame as our annual twice-a-year opponents than Pitt and BC. When we go to 20 conference games next year will each get a third annual twice-a-year opponent or will everyone just get a third rotational home-and-away opponent added to the current two...
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    Since joining the ACC we have the 4th best record in the conference

    I believe I was one of the first to like your post, so I had no problem with how you did it, I was just attempting to try and explain why the "guessed" reason of you only including ACC members who had reached at least the Elite 8 wasn't factually correct for that particular column. If as you...
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    Since joining the ACC we have the 4th best record in the conference

    I have no issue with this last bolded stance. I think my issue in your previous post was this statement by you, "I was surprised to read SU was one of the top 8 jobs in all of college basketball". In re-reading that previous post by you and now in this post I see it had mostly to do with the...
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    Since joining the ACC we have the 4th best record in the conference

    On what basis are we not Top 8 program? Perhaps if we were to value conference season titles, conference tourney titles, regular season wins, ease in which we get into the NCAAs and recruiting rankings higher than TV ratings, actual NCAA results, and attendance? Over the past 7 seasons...
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    Since joining the ACC we have the 4th best record in the conference

    Our previous five years in the Big East might have led to that expectation (with an .825 conference winning percentage) but the previous 5 years (with a .607 winning percentage in conference) is just slightly above what we have accomplished in the ACC. And that earlier time period in the Big...
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    Since joining the ACC we have the 4th best record in the conference

    Not sure why the OP left others out, but ND had two E8 appearances during this time frame, the Cards made the E8 their first year in the conference, and FSU joined the party just last year. Cheers, Neil
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    New rule adopted by NBA would really help Cuse and college BB

    Really? Some teams start stalling at like the 5 minute mark of the 2nd half. ;) Only thing that will end stall ball is a 24 second clock, which I prefer, but doubt we will ever get that. Cheers, Neil
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    New rule adopted by NBA would really help Cuse and college BB

    I could see 20 seconds if the college game ever adopts it. Also would like to see 4 quarters and 1 time out for each team for each quarter, use it or lose it. Do away with the auto commercial break stoppages at the 16, 12, 8, and 4 minutes marks. There are enough stoppages for clock issues...
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