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[QUOTE="sufan, post: 32909, member: 262"]
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This may be hard to understand but I really believe this was not a difficult decision for SU as a [COLOR=#ff0000]university[/COLOR] to make:

1) ACC provides long term financial security and stability and interesting competition for SU athletic teams.

2) more importantly, this decision is about the schools the University wants to be associated with:

Pitt, BC, Maryland, UNC, Duke, UVA, Miami, and so on

[COLOR=#ff0000]versus[/COLOR] Louisville, USF, Cinn, WVU, TCU (in Texas).

This is really not a difficult decision.

At least one of and perhaps both RU and UConn are very likely to be in the ACC (or Big 10) within 5 years.

Either would jump within a minute if offered an opportunity and both offer value: RU offers its location as the state university of NJ; UConn has a strong BB program and can help consolidate the New England and NY regional markets.

3) SU is joining a north-south ACC with 5 private schools (BC, Wake, Duke, Miami, SU) and medium size public universitities; a much better fit than the factory size, massive state schools of the BIg 10.

4) You are perhaps aware that currently the only Big East football team in the top 25 is WVU.

5) In the future SU can schedule OOC from a position of strength:

I would be very surprised if SU doesn't schedule Nova, GT, St. Johns, ND, UConn OOC on a regular basis.

Hopefully SU continues to play RU and UConn in football on a regular basis.

6) Pitt's decision wasn't based on what SU did.

So the only real question is whether the ACC would have taken Pitt and UConn or Pitt and RU, if SU said it wanted to align itself with UL, Cinn, WVU, USF, TCU and so on.

Of course the current rumor is the Big 12 may be expanding to 12 and invite some of the "left-behind" Big East schools: then what?
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