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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1211607, member: 204"]
The move to the ACC will bring greatly enhanced revenue - on the basis of football TV revenue.
 
The decision to go ACC was a football decision.
 
Before it could make the decision to join the ACC, the University had to first decide whether it wanted to remain a major football program. It had to decide whether it was willing to make the kind of enhanced financial investment needed to compete at a major, big-time college level.
 
In joining the ACC, the school agreed to make that financial commitment to the football program - infrastructure, coaching salaries and the like.
 
It could have taken a different path. It could have decided to de-emphasize football. It could have decided to go to the American Conference or stay in the Big East while competing as a football independent. Those moves would not have hurt the BB program. The Big East Conference has certainly not hurt Villanova BB.
 
Many on this board were not around when the studies of football de-emphasis were undertaken in the past. The studies were very serious.
 
The 1970 study undertaken by John Corbally truly hurt Schwartzwalder's ability to recruit and was very much responsible for the ensuing problems that the program had.
 
So, the move to the ACC, though certainly helpful to the other sports, was not a basketball decision or a soccer decision or a field hockey decision. It was a football decision.
 
Coach Boeheim has made that clear on many occasions.
 
In other words, the premise of the original post - that Syracuse University is "just another school that happens to play football" - is both inaccurate historically and inaccurate from a contemporary financial and competitive standpoint and is reflective of a fundamental misunderstanding of the school and its thinking over the years.
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