Its hard qualify how important getting into the ACC was. Its not just this tourney but bball wise the conference is setting up to be a juggernaut which will hog the talent on the east coast and basically cripple the ceiling for the BE, AAC, A10 ect. Its going to be a 7-9 bid conference that does very well year to year in the tourney. The additions of SU/Lville to the UNC/Duke brand gives it 4 top 10 programs while UVA, NcSt are on the rise again and ND/Pitt add quality and depth.
I also wouldn't sleep on traditional ACCprograms like Georgia Tech, Wake, Clemson who have been a bit down for a while, and Florida St for a few years. To me getting 2 of those 3 programs going again will make the conference dominant. If you look back 10 years ago, Wake and Tech had final 4 runs, would make the tourney 50-70% of the time. Clemson while always fading in the tourney, was a consistent mid seed for most of a 10 year period ending in the mid 2000's. I also remember posting last year that Florida St had been as good a program as Notre Dame the past 6 or 7 years and showed it statistically... but that was before this year of course.
When all the teams get it together in November and December one year, the standard for this conference should be 8-10 teams.
I never rooted for any of these teams in the NCAA. We are Syracuse. I don't care how much money we get from our rivals winning in the tournament.Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But if like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
jncuse said:I also wouldn't sleep on traditional ACCprograms like Georgia Tech, Wake, Clemson who have been a bit down for a while, and Florida St for a few years. To me getting 2 of those 3 programs going again will make the conference dominant. If you look back 10 years ago, Wake and Tech had final 4 runs, would make the tourney 50-70% of the time. Clemson while always fading in the tourney, was a consistent mid seed for most of a 10 year period ending in the mid 2000's. I also remember posting last year that Florida St had been as good a program as Notre Dame the past 6 or 7 years and showed it statistically... but that was before this year of course. When all the teams get it together in November and December one year, the standard for this conference should be 8-10 teams.
rrlbees said:Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But I'd like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But I'd like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But I'd like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
The trouble for these teams is that they have to play the other ACC teams - I don't see us, Duke, UNC, Louiville etc. slowing down.I also wouldn't sleep on traditional ACCprograms like Georgia Tech, Wake, Clemson who have been a bit down for a while, and Florida St for a few years. To me getting 2 of those 3 programs going again will make the conference dominant. If you look back 10 years ago, Wake and Tech had final 4 runs, would make the tourney 50-70% of the time. Clemson while always fading in the tourney, was a consistent mid seed for most of a 10 year period ending in the mid 2000's. I also remember posting last year that Florida St had been as good a program as Notre Dame the past 6 or 7 years and showed it statistically... but that was before this year of course.
When all the teams get it together in November and December one year, the standard for this conference should be 8-10 teams.
No, Syracuse Gets it's full share of the ACC NCAA tournament money.do we get a share this year or does the SIB take us out of the money?
I rooted for Pitt. I don't hate Pitt like some here.Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But I'd like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
longislandcuse said:I rooted for Pitt. I don't hate Pitt like some here. G'Town and UConn I never rooted for but that's because... we actually have reason not to like them. I don't have a reason not to like UNC/Duke/NC State/Louisville/UVa/ND. Did you root against the ACC in bowl games and the Playoff?
Nobody replied to my question in the other thread. But I'd like folks to raise their hands if they rooted for Gtown? Uconn? Pitt? All 3?
I never rooted for any of these teams in the NCAA. We are Syracuse. I don't care how much money we get from our rivals winning in the tournament.
Because you knew they would lose early?Only Pitt.