I don't get attacking something that is old school ACC. It will isolate the outsider that Syracuse is and will always be in that conference. Especially for a guy on the way out, it's an unnecessary grenade thrown. I mean Swofford isn't an idiot and will recognize where he can have his bread buttered financially. It doesn't have to be done in a way to insult their waffle house arena.
The examples you use above are being defensive about your guys. That's admirable and what i love about Jimmy. Attacking a city for being small and southern and ill equipped is just kicking someone weak. It's a Trump move and bush league.
Putting politics aside, I most definitely disagree w/ the characterization of this as a "Trump move", in that what JB said was actually factual.

Look, Greensboro, NC is NOT the place to hold the annual tourney of the best conference in CBB.
As others have pointed out, it'd be the equivalent of holding the Old BE conference tournament in Providence RI instead of MSG, because the league offices are located there. The OBE had enough foresight to move the BET to NYC, and the rest is history. IOW, to be "big time" you have to think you're big time.
Trust me, I live in this neck of the woods, and as NC evolves and becomes more of a destination/transplant state, it's sometimes necessary to drag the locals literally kicking and screaming into the new reality.
Goober, Barney, Andy, and Aunt Bea, as quaint and charming as that life once was, are not walking through that door. Time for the old skool ACC diehards to recognize that fact, face reality, and act accordingly.