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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 22544, member: 87"]
Pods A and C are elite conferences unto themselves and Pods B and D are mid-majors. I don't see it working this way. I'm curious about the "traditional rivalry" thing they currently have. The problem with doing that is that presumably all the existing ACC teams already have their two rivals established. So do you just have Pitt and Syracuse play each other 4 times a year?? If the ACC is truly serious about this expansion they are going to have to integrate these 2 (or maybe eventually 4) teams into the conference. I don't think you do that by isolating them in some Pod far from the rest of the conference.

For us Syracuse basketball fans (not football fans and not business people), the only advantage of this move to the ACC is getting regular games with Duke and UNC. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of traditional thinking that will prevent those games from happening more than once per year. It will be very hard to build rivalries that way. Heck we could have scheduled non-conference games with those two teams each year and gotten all the ACC benefits AND all the Big East benefits.

On the other hand, you have to think that the UNC - Pitt - Duke - Syracuse quartet will provide the most sought after TV games. ESPN will no doubt want to get as many games out of the combo of those four teams as possible. They will be the most valuable product the basketball side of the conference has to offer. You have to think whatever alignment or scheduling the conference comes up with will take this into account. I sure hope so because I am really seeing this basketball conference as a major dog outside of the big 2.
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