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Message: [QUOTE="General20, post: 4597676, member: 724"] People think leaving the Big East hurt Syracuse? That's ridiculous. Lets be very clear about what is happening in college sports right now. The big money generating schools dont want to share TV revenue with the smaller schools. They are grouping together in an attempt to hoard all the TV money, and they aren't just going to forget about the billion dollars a year the NCAA tournament generates. The changes happen painfully slowly as TV contracts expire, and also because if they happened all at once it would violate anti-trust laws, but they are happening all the same and its not a fight the bigger schools are going to lose. Eventually every Big East school is going to be excluded from the big money and big champions (think of it as being regulated to Division 2). It might happen to SU anyway, ACC is not a safe place to be. But at least in the ACC Syracuse has a chance to continue to play major college athletics. Schools without football have zero chance. What has hurt Syracuse isn't going to the ACC, but the changing nature of recruiting. It used to be largely regional, and Syracuse was really well positioned being in the region of NYC, Philly, and DC (possibly the three best recruiting hotbeds in the country). Recruiting isn't regional anymore, most big time recruits travel across country just to play high school basketball now a days. Instead its about fans and boosters raising money to entice recruits. This really favors big state schools who pump out a huge number of alumni every year and who are considered the home team by everyone in the state, rather than everyone in just one city, aka the big money generating schools that are consolidating power and money in the first place. SU (and every relatively small private school) is going to be lesser in this set up. Its not a coincidence Coach K, Jay Wright, Brey, and Boeheim all retired within a year of each other. [/QUOTE]

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