Could recruiting suffer?

[Bayside44]

Here's the flipside of this question - will SU and Pitt going to the ACC help Duke/UNC recruiting? Coaches can now say "come play in the best bball conference... oh and it's for UNC"

Those guys recruit nationally. So I don't think so, that doesn't matter.

 

[EastCoast2]

In 3-5 years will we see a larger discrepancy between conference strength? The past few seasons most people have agreed that the BE has been the top dog, but every conference has had arguments.

ACC with UNC and Duke winning titles and having several ranked teams, smaller conference, play teams twice
B1G with OSU being on a run, Purdue had a couple great seasons, MSU final 4 runs, more ranked teams
B12 with Kansas winning a recent title, seems to always get a 1 seed, Texas having very good teams, KSU, OU, OSU, Mizz being ranked in recent years
Pac-10 has been garbage lately

My point is, if the ACC will now have four consistent top 10 teams, with Duke and UNC (and hopefully SU) consistently in the top 5, and if FSU, MD, and maybe even a team like Clemson taking strides forward, will the ACC become to basketball what the SEC is to football?

 

[SUFAN1]

NO !!!

 

[ACCBballFan]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ve-commissioner-ok-expand-big-east-conference

Sounds likethe BE will try and improve its football by adding Army and Navy football only plus Air Force, SMU to give TCU company and UCF to give USF a dance partner.

So as they desperately try to scramble together quantity in football, it hurts quality in Bball adding Air Force, TCU, SMU and UCF to Rutgers, USF, Providence, Seton Hall and DePaul making half of its 18 Bball team sub par.

Cup half empty or half full since BE also has UCONN, Lousiville, Nova, Cincy, Marquette, G-town, West VA, Notre Dame and St. John's as its top 9, with 5 of the 9 being Bball only in BE.

So BE may have to move Notre Dame and West VA with its western and central teams AF, TCU, SMU, DePaul, Marquette, Louisville and Cincy to have balance and 9 teams in each division.

That would likely annoy ND as B1G does for Penn State, since ND also views themself as eastern culture, not central, and would prefer to be with UCONN, Nova, G-town and St John's plus the necessary Seton Hall, Providence, Rutgers, USF and UCF.

If they instead move USF and UCF, they end up with a central division not much better at top and perhaps worse at bottom than C-USA and some other mid majors.

I guess an alternative which would admit what is going on would be to have the 7 of the 8 Bball only schools (all except DePaul) and UCONN who wants out and Rutgers in one division of more charter members, and have the other 9 who joined as football schools in the other division:

UCONN, Nova, Marquette, G-town, Notre Dame, St. John's, Rutgers, Seton Hall and Providence being a much deeper divison, without going the full 9 good in one division and 9 bad in the other.

Louisville, Cincy, and West Virginia plus, AF, TCU, SMU, USF, UCF and Depaul for 3 good and 6 weak in Bball but leverage any football rivalries UL, Cincy and WV may develop.

There are no ideal BE Bball division options as you can see.

 

[EastCoast2]

BE is in a world of trouble

Still have 9 teams names above that are top-25 potential, for now. How many recruits go to Nova, Gtown, and Marquette just to play in the top bball conference? That won't be the case for very much longer