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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4628613, member: 5685"] Under the current environment of college football, SU will be at a disadvantage. But that disadvantage isn't as large in the ACC as it would be in the B16 or SEC. Obviously FSU and Clemson will be well ahead of us. But there is very little separating the rest of the conference. Which is why we have seen so much parity within the ACC. While that gives us a good chance at finishing in 3rd place, it also means we could finish in 14th. That didn't happen in the Big East where we had baked in Ws of BC, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple every year. So we were looking at 5-2 in a typical year. The typical year in the ACC we should go .500 against non FSU and Clemson schools. So we are looking at 3-4 Ws and 4-5 Ls. That difference in record has nothing to do with location. It is stepping up the level of competition. If we were still in the Big East in BBall we would be no different than Seton Hall or Providence the last 10 seasons. So the downturn would have still been there. But that is a false premise. If we had not gone to the ACC we would be in the AAC right now (unless you believe we make the B1G over Rutgers or Maryland). At best we are headed to the B12 next year, at worst we are in the AAC 2.0 which is horrible. Either way both options are worse than the ACC. There is no way that SU would sacrifice the FB program entirely like UConn did. So the Big East would never be an option. If we left the ACC the best we could likely do is to lead in the creation of a new conference consisting of SU, UConn, Nova (FB jumps to FBS), Army (FB only), Navy (FB only), James Madison, ECU, USF, St Johns, Georgetown. That FB conference is pretty bad. That BBall conference is a mix of good and bad. On top of that we make maybe 1/3 of the money as we do in the ACC. [/QUOTE]

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