Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5029429, member: 1969"]
Just because the ACC has been quite good in tourney play the last 3 years, doesn't change the actual fact that the conference played like crap in 2022 OOC and 2023 OOC,.  Not good in 2024 either, but not a huge gap like the prior two years either.   But that has its impacts downstream.     It's not just NET manipulation (although there was some of it this year) its largely just W and L's, and we are always behind the top.  Until conferences decide to start playing lots against each other in Jan and Feb, which would be great, it is what it is.   November and December performance as a group matters, that is the system.   We have benefitted from our conference mates stellar play in the past, and the ACC should have enough pedigree teams to do in the future as well.

Syracuse is lucky that we have never been hard on the bubble line these last 3 years so it didn't bite us in the butt.    Hopefully, we start playing better .. and start playing well above the bubble line in future years so it doesn't matter how good the ACC did OOC compared to others.   And hopefully the ACC gets better at that time of the year too.

None of the above is a defence of the weaknesses in the NET.

They are not changing to a system where they consider prior season tournament play to assess current year seeds.   They never have, and they will not going forward unless its publicly announced as a new format (which would be surprising)  They may certainly tweak the NET - I have given my suggestion on how to do that before.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?