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Message: [QUOTE="suloyalfan, post: 16904, member: 397"] What traditional rivalries are we losing in football? The only one I can think of is West Virginia, and that's a rivalry that we could continue in the non-conference schedule at some point. Big East Basketball is awesome, I won't deny that. I agree that basketball will take a big hit in traditional rivalries and traditions (playing in Madison Square Garden for the Big East Tournament)... games against traditional rivalries in conference (UCONN, Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, etc). However, the quality of basketball in the ACC is also very high with a tremendous amount of very high quality teams. Imagine now that North Carolina, Duke, and Maryland will likely be playing in the Dome every year! That would be tremendous. I really like this move. I think that SU fits much better in the ACC academically and athletically it will be a step up. Additionally, I'm glad to see Syracuse making a pre-emptive move to have more control of their own fate. If they stayed put and the Big East blew up, I don't think that's where they would want to be. The Big East has been an abomination since the first teams left for the ACC 8 years ago, and now this may be the second strike to finally put the conference away. I think when everything settles, the Big 12 and Big East will no longer exist. There may be some sort of hybrid conference in it's place, but it won't have long term stability because it will be a patchwork conference made up of bridesmaids instead of brides that are just banding together to hold onto AQ status in football. Does anyone really think that a conference made up of UCONN, Rutgers, USF, Louisville, Cincinnati, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State, Baylor, and TCU is going to be a long term option? I did not include WVU because I'm assuming if Syracuse and Pittsburgh leave, that WVU won't be far behind them heading elsewhere (SEC or ACC?). [/QUOTE]

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