Coach K: ACC should have 16 teams

[Orangeyes]

"Krzyzewski, who is three wins from becoming the all-time leader in victories, agreed with the decision to add two schools that will enhance ACC basketball." In the present that would seem to eliminate Rutgers and probably include West Virginia & Louisville.

Spoken today at his PC

 

[Noexcuse]

Interesting. And if you are going to go with 2 more schools for basketball, it seems that you would want elite programs that bring something to the table. Also, going to 2 divisions, would mean the new schools would likely come from the "north" for balancing purposes. His comments might offer some hope to UConn.

 

[orangefan13]

JB said when we first joined the New ACC something along the lines of "All the recruits we select are deciding between us and the ACC".

To bad Temple or Nova couldn't build a decent football program in the last 30 years. Funny thought. Louisville to Cincy is literally half the distace of what we are to NYC.

 

[orange79]

LOL.

“Divisions, you could do a cool thing with divisions and maintain your brand of a conference and not get caught up with, ‘Oh, what about my rivalry with this one school?’” he said. “Although we should always have the rivalry between Duke and Carolina, don’t get me wrong on that."

In other words, the rules apply to everyone. Except K.

 

[billsin01]

LOL.

“Divisions, you could do a cool thing with divisions and maintain your brand of a conference and not get caught up with, ‘Oh, what about my rivalry with this one school?’” he said. “Although we should always have the rivalry between Duke and Carolina, don’t get me wrong on that."

In other words, the rules apply to everyone. Except K.

I think his general point is that if the ACC is going to add teams, they should add good hoops schools and try to basically retain the original ACC in one division. I have always thought this was how the ACC would feel -- the carolina folks aren't really going to care about a cuse and/or pitt rivalry. They also probably don't feel an intense urge to mix it up too much with the cuse/pitt/uconn/wvu/l'ville, etc. given that they generally spend most of the year battering the nc state's and uva's and gtech's and wake's of the world.

 

[realorange]

I think his general point is that if the ACC is going to add teams, they should add good hoops schools and try to basically retain the original ACC in one division. I have always thought this was how the ACC would feel -- the carolina folks aren't really going to care about a cuse and/or pitt rivalry. They also probably don't feel an intense urge to mix it up too much with the cuse/pitt/uconn/wvu/l'ville, etc. given that they generally spend most of the year battering the nc state's and uva's and gtech's and wake's of the world.

Yeah, and they will have to learn to block out the thought that maybe they aren't as good as they think they are even with all those "original ACC" wins.

 

[Col. Bleep]

"North" is not a term the ACC will use.

I must give Coach K & Duke credit.
They understand the meaning of a "rivalry" in college sports.
That's far more than I can say about Syracuse.

The more I read, the more it appears that - from the ACC's perspective - this raid
on the Big East had a lot to do with basketball...not just football $.
I would venture to say that for that reason there will be a lot of internal pressure
on BC to drop its opposition to UCONN joining the ACC.

I don't think the ACC needs a NYC-market team to get attention or
even ratings. From purely a hoops perspective, they may be drooling
over Louisville. But to the extent they still respect geography,
that's questionable.
provide some

 

[DoctorBombay]

"North" is not a term the ACC will use.

I must give Coach K & Duke credit.
They understand the meaning of a "rivalry" in college sports.
That's far more than I can say about Syracuse.

The more I read, the more it appears that - from the ACC's perspective - this raid
on the Big East had a lot to do with basketball...not just football $.
I would venture to say that for that reason there will be a lot of internal pressure
on BC to drop its opposition to UCONN joining the ACC.

I don't think the ACC needs a NYC-market team to get attention or
even ratings. From purely a hoops perspective, they may be drooling
over Louisville. But to the extent they still respect geography,
that's questionable.
provide some

I've read this "Bleep's" post three times & still have no idea what its about- especially the dig at SU not knowing the "meaning of a rivalry"? What? Can someone translate this mess? :noidea:

 

[slidingdown]

I've read this "Bleep's" post three times & still have no idea what its about- especially the dig at SU not knowing the "meaning of a rivalry"? What? Can someone translate this mess? :noidea:

It's a free-form poem. The last line is the biggest clue. I'M WITH YOU BLEEP, WE SHOULD ALL 'PROVIDE SOME'!

 

[Guinness]

I've read this "Bleep's" post three times & still have no idea what its about- especially the dig at SU not knowing the "meaning of a rivalry"? What? Can someone translate this mess? :noidea:

He has a bee up his backside ever since the move to the ACC was announced and every post he makes now has an agenda.

 

[Col. Bleep]

Glad you like the verse.
And "agenda" is an opinion...just like most other people have.

Pretty simple...Duke & UNC won't forget their tradition.
SU seems to have no problem abandoning it's arch rivalry.
I can't stand that.
As an alumnus, I'm embarrassed by what appears to be the
"anything we need to do now" mentality and the disdain for our history.
And what I believe are the chancellor's disingenuous statements about the
move.

Offer it...
circle.
Stripe...or not.

 

[SUintheVille]

"Krzyzewski, who is three wins from becoming the all-time leader in victories, agreed with the decision to add two schools that will enhance ACC basketball." In the present that would seem to eliminate Rutgers and probably include West Virginia & Louisville.

Spoken today at his PC

In that quote, wasn't K referring to SU and Pitt? I see nothing that suggests UofL and WVU, unless he wants 2 more bball enhancements.

 

[Cusefan95]

I will the tradition we had with DePaul, Marquette, and USF in basketball. And who can forget that awesome Cotton Bowl with TCU we played - the foundation of a fantastic rivalry.

Since the choices were to stay in the Big East and watch as we got steamrolled into irrelevance, or "abandon" a conference that was so radically diffent from it's origins that it really needed a new name...yeah, I'm glad we got out of this clustf**k. We can still play G-Town once a year, which is about what we got most years in the current formulation of the Big East anyway.