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[QUOTE="Shenexon, post: 53131, member: 129"]
I must confess I had an initial take similar to yours. SU leaving the northeast to play in a league I'd been trained to hate was not high on my list of paradigm shifts. So I've debated it endlessly with myself and a few others with these conclusions: SU as an institution is now a player on a national level which is better supported by the ACC connection than the Big East, i.e. academic, research, etc.; college football is now primarily about money and the Big East chose not to compete for the money a good football conference could bring - the ACC is a better financial option; a true Atlantic Coast Conference from north to south may be what we've all wanted for a while, i.e. playing in a geographic conference that makes sense; we can still schedule our traditional rivals in football & basketball though it will never be the same kind of routine; SU sports are working hard to develop & maintain national prominence with the entire eastern seaboard being an appropriate venue for the school & alumni, i.e. SU has a strong fan base from Boston to Miami. Lastly, for me, I'm much closer now to more games. Other than less regular games against WVU, GTown, Villanova, UConn, etc., I don't see a downside.
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