The worst part of the ACC move

[senorpalmer]

All of your hoops references go back to the 80s. This isn't the same Big East conference as then.


It's stretched as far as the 90s Big East. The same Miami as before. USF, Marquette and DePaul aren't exactly down the road.

The core of the Big East, even as it is right now, has always been the northeast. The schools outside of that core are the outsiders. SU will now go from being a "core" program to being an outsider.

 

[OrangeAl]

to quote ronny reagan on the BE /acc bball cold war of the past 2 decades.
"commissioner...tear down this wall...and pretty puhleezzz let us come live there!"
kinda the bizarro appomattox.

The irony of the situation is that we won the cold war on the basketball front but the battle that mattered was on the football front.

 

[tbonezone]

sad but true. and like duke gives a crap about football.

 

[Madbiker]

Having to actually care about who wins a Clemson - Wake Forest game.

 

[Bayside44]

Can't agree about "packing the stadiums" How many ACC games are not played to compacity crowds now? Half the schools play in arens that hold less than 10,000 already. Ain't going to seat more people in them! Only 2 exceed 15,000. SU packing them in isn't going to improve their status because they are already packed. Winning games will but when they won't be playing Duke and UNC more than once on a regular basis, it will be tough too. What sort of Rivalry would SU have with UConn, Gerogetown, Pitt or SJU if the league hadn't had 2 games a year against each. There has been a starin maintaining that with having only the occasional 2 games now. Can't establish one without it. SU will have to consistently, and I mean almost always, be in the championship game if the ACC tourn to get a rivalry going. And without that rivalay SU can't be move into elite status. Not saying they have anything to apologize for, just they won't be top tier. And lastly, considering SU "partnership" with BC and Pitt's with Maryland, who do you thing made out the better on that deal? If Pitt gets that rivalry going first, who will have the better chance to rise to the top tier?

The Washington Post ran a story a couple of weeks ago about attendance struggles in the ACC. They won't struggle when we come to town.

You worry too much. We're gonna smoke people, Maryland will get better under Turgeon and we'll have plenty of big games.

 

[SBU72]

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You worry too much. We're gonna smoke people, Maryland will get better under Turgeon and we'll have plenty of big games.[/quote]
I don't worry to much, I just refuse to see the situation through orange colored glasses. Remember, SU has only been to the finals in the BE tourny 3 times in the past 10 years. I think they have been regular season champs only once in that time. And moving to the ACC isn't going to make things easier. My point is that many, many fans here expext SU to move to the ACC and take over the conference. That they will dominate everybody. And thus be the elite team in the conference. I say that they are saddly mistaken for a couple of reasons and not the least is that the ACC won't let them. Duke and UNC are the stars, the center points, the big dogs in the conference and they will remain that way for some time. By splitting the conference in two and putting SU opposite them will keep SU from dominating them in ACC eyes for years.