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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5366229, member: 1145"] In doing so, they would be voting to see the ACC gutted ASAP. Just like the BT and SEC want. I should know better but I am still; amazed by how fans of Cuse and BC and - slightly smaller kn scale - Pitt hang into the just plain erroneous views about the power of being located with tens of millions of people whop usually pay 0 attention to CFB and then the do pay attention, it is ND or PSU or games between Top 10 teams where they are from. Such a region is totally incapable of supporting a Major college on football (as Dave Gavitte knew) unless there is a system in which it gets revenue from conferences based in regions that do watch a whole lot off CFB. and do so passionately. Once you put that understanding with the knowledge that leagues defined by having larger state flagship and land grant schools have massive advantages over leagues that are defined as having many private schools and small state schools, you should be able to to do the simple arithmetic about who has most value and why. I encourage all Syracuse fans who think they know better to start demanding that Syracuse be the northeastern hero and leave the ACC while begging BC and Pitt to join them, so Syracuse can then get northeastern schools Temple, UMass, and Buffalo with them and then start to woo Wake and WVU and Cincy. Maybe JMU. Then, because the Northeast is so beloved by the networks, even for CFB, that new Super Northeast FL would find is easy to add VT and GT, meaning even Miami would want that. Again, here is a prediction ion for you: when this all stops there either will be 2 or 3 Major conferences l;eft standing. The BT and SEC are assured. Either ACC or Big 12 could be the 3rd, but to become that 3rd, each must take valuable pieces from the other and finish reducing it to a level like today's Pac. Whether the final Major conferences are 2 or 3, neither Wake nor BC will be around. In order for the ACC to strengthen its TV numbers nationally and survive long term as Major, it must cut dead weight. If for example, ESPN will up the money if the ACC can take value from the Big 12 and ESPN says that it do that for no more than 20 members, the ACC will make the most bang by being ab le to add 5 schools rather than just three that are larger state schools (UofA, AZ ST, Utah, Colorado, Texas Tech, Cincy, even WVU) than by keeping two small privates, one of which is located in the dreads region for Major CFB and the other the smallest school in any Major conference since the dissolution off the SWC and in state that simply cannot. adequately support 4 Major conference football programs. Realism is here. FSU and Clemson and Miami and UNC and UVA all are going to be in a Major conference even if there are only 2. [/QUOTE]

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