This is factually not true. You either don’t know the story or are purposely ignoring It because it doesn’t satisfy your narrative.
Football would have been in big trouble without the ACC. However, the ACC is not as stable as it was. Basketball would have been fine in the Big East. Big East bottom feeders now top us. The ACC bought time for the football team while costing the basketball program but during that time the football team fumbled its future away.
Listen, it doesn't take me nearly that long to look stupider.
Our realignment test case/doppelgänger is UConn. Regardless of what UConn does moving forward, there’s no way they’re in a better position than us.
No one is proposing anything. It is just a fact of what is happening. Whether Syracuse uses this is open to debate, I have no idea. It is obvious others are(i.e. Tennesee). NCAA ability to enforce recruiting rules has gone from sketchy to unenforceable with NIL. Any semblance of not paying for recruits is out the window, the only question is who pays, how much, and how often.
Go find a new team because he will retire when ready so please hold your breaths we do not have to hear your clueless calm
Is that you Juli?
Hey if I said anything I would too so that’s why we gotta watch from the crowd
I loved being In the BE for basketball until they brought in all of the new schools. That changed everything. Even JB agreed it was not the same. Syracuse basketball isn’t what it used to be for one reason. They don’t win at the level we were all used to. As a result they are seldom ranked, get little national attention and going to the NCAA tournament is no longer a given. Those are not very compelling attributes to attract recruits. It’s nothing related to geography. Duke, NC and even Florida St don’t seem to have issues recruiting the Metro NY and DMV areas. We used to recruit well in those areas especially Baltimore. Syracuse basketball went to the ACC as a potential challenger to NC and Duke but has done little after the first year. JB built Syracuse into a national brand and deserves all of the credit for doing so. Things have changed over the past 8-10 years. As the head coach, he is responsibile for that too. Moving back to the NBE with a P5 football program is not an option. As for the ACC, Clemson’s not going anywhere. The ACC will be together at least until 2035 due to the grant of rights clause.
Is it not a good thing? They’ve been pretty good in recruiting with at least some kind of upward trajectory. While also snagging some of our favorite regional targets
The math I read said that there was enough money for Clemson to come out ahead after only a few years.
Nova says hello.
Well he was quoted saying that in the Cincinnati newspaper so there is that. Someone has their own narrative in this thread for sure though.
Where did he say that? I took his remarks to be about coaches over the next 4 years. No league changes would actually happen in his time in college.
I don't have the article to link (too lazy) but when he signed with X he was quoted in the Cincinnati paper that he liked X because basketball was the focus of the Big East and wasn't likely to be impacted much by all the conference stuff going on. Not word for word but that is the essence of what he was quoted as saying. I didn't hear it personally, only read it.
How so? The majority of the money is in TV revenue, and the grant of rights gives a school’s TV dollars over to the ACC.
I am curious as to what your source is. My understanding of the agreement is if a school leaves the ACC, any/all revenues the school receives from their new conference would go to the ACC until 2036. The grant of rights position assumes no litigation on the part of a departing school as that could dramatically change the dynamics.
Thanks for sharing I had not considered the noise around realignment as a possible recruiting obstacle for Syracuse basketball. I guess for someone planning on staying in school for 3 or more years this could be an issue.
And Boeheim recently said “When you talk about $400,000-$500,000, you’re really talking about professional athletics." Not a coincidence that the numbers match. I guess now we know the going rate if we want to get players like this in the future.
