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Message: [QUOTE="ACCBballFan, post: 30915, member: 1278"] If there is any cherry picking to be done in football, it would be the other way around with B12 snagging TCU or West VA or USF or UL. With Cincy on 2 year probation, doubt B12 would give them a look. B12 not interested in UCONN or Rutgers. The B12's medium TV share is 768K vs. BE's 521K. B12's average TV share is 903 K versus BE's 579K. So not sure anyone want to leave $$ on the table by leaving B12. With respect to what you call ACC North, that has not been decided yet whether to have one big conference with TV driving who plays who in 3 Home and Homes with other 10 teams alternating home and away each year for 16 game schedule, or 2 divisons as you surmise playing a 19 game schedule which is a lot if they play 6 teams intra- division twice and 7 inter-division. Even though Cuse cannot play itself, the TV bosses would assure sweet 16 teams play twice. ACC has UNC, Duke and Pitt in addiiton to Cuse, and BE has UCONN and Lousiville. So that's a one game advantage for ACC with respect to 3 top 16 teams at the Carrier Dome to BE's 2 without Pitt and Cuse, and another one game advantage on automatic TV game regardless of where one lives. The answer to how quickly BE overcomes that ACC advantage depends on whether one views it from perspective of a Syracuse student or a Syracuse alum in NYC area. Either way BE quickly evens things out with Villanova and St Johns' contests being games worth watching. If you live in NYC add Rutgers and Seton Hall for 2 game advantage to BE, if not NYC, still even as probably not worth the 4-5 hour drive to see a blow out game. G-town and MD offset as do West VA - UVA and BC-Providence with everybody else too far away to swing things, Notre Dame, VA Tech, Cincy and NC State closer than Marquette, Clemson, Wake, DePaul, GA Tech, FSU, Miami, USF and TCU. If BE adds Temple, another game advantage for BE. If BE adds service academies football only, no Bball impact with TCU and whomever being a bad trade for Pitt and Cuse. So if ACC does not go divsions it's a wash in upstate NY and a two game BE advantage in NYC. That is pretty well off set by Boeheim having 3 more OOC games (16 ACC versus 19 if ACC-North and ACC-South) to either make lots of $$ in Dome off cupcakes or try to play Nova or St John's home and home like UNC schedules UK and Texas. Other than for pre-season tournaments, Jim Boeheim rarely leaves state of NY much less Syracuse Dome in November but might schedule an early February game like Duke does with St John's or perhaps one at MSG in mid December like Duke does each year with Pitt, Zaga, Butler, Mich St etc. which would make it pretty much a wash ACC opponents versus BE opponents. As you say, different story if ACC North route especially this year with BC and MD both being depleted. They should be back by time 27 month hadcuffs are released though, more so than nearby Providence, Rutgers and Seton Hall ever are. Since ACC does not have as many good mid-tier teams as BE, due in part to 14 teams versus 16 and also by BE mid tier just being better, Syracuse and Pitt may have to schedule a slightly stronger OOC to not hurt their RPI. That is somewhat offset by ACC having 4 top 12 teams (only play 3, not oneself) as BE had before losing two, and also matters more for bubble teams than it does for perennial powers. [/QUOTE]

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