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I keep coming back to the same one word....why?
Why syracuse and pitt? why the acc? why why why?
Syracuse and Pitt...football powerhouses? Not for a long time now. Big draws to a football stadium down south? Umm. No. Pitt traveling fans? Yeah right, we're doing better with travelers and we've been at it for a couple years with teh big boys.
Everybody, including me, has been assuming this is about football. TV contracts. Football drives the bus athletically is the old cliche, and it's true. Football is the biggest money maker you can build, and it is where all the television money is going.
The esteemed Tranghese went on national TV whining about football and integrity and loyalty. I'm concerned about football because UConn football is swinging in the breeze right now.
But I keep coming back to why - and the answer i'm getting is...basketball, not football.
Syracuse brings the NY media market in college football? Nope. Pittsburgh brings a major market in college football? Not really, nope. ACC football didn't just add much at all when it comes to TV contracts and football.
It just doesn't make sense. This was either a panic move by the Syracuse and Pittsburgh based on little faith in the big east leadership (can't blame them for being nervous) and it happened behind closed doors that the leadership of the ACC jumped on to weaken the basketball stronghold of the big east on the entire college basketball landscape, or there's really just some personal agenda's involved here from people in positions of power that we'll never know about.
In the long run, I can't see how this will turn out well for Pitt or Syracuse, IF some kind of northeastern all sports league with geographic sense doesn't get put together.
I think that the ACC better seriously be thinking about going to the 16 to solidify the all sports in the northeast, or they're just going to be stuck with two more versions of what they've got in Boston college in Pitt and Syracuse, and nobody down south is going to care about them, and in turn, nobody in the their own backyards is going to care about them.
There is a lot to be said about regional rivalry, and as our university president lays out, the regional rivalries are based on student athletes, and students actually ahve to go to class, and you can't go to class when it takes you three or four days to go play a softball game, or compete in a swim meet every other week.
I don't see this turning out well for either Syracuse or Pitt long term if the ACC fails to add the only other schools that make sense in a 16 team conference,a nd that's us and Rutgers.
West Virginia? Oh man, Frothing at mouth out there in morgantown, if I'm them.
Maybe that's me being vindictive, probably. But is it that unreasonable?
Either way, the more I think about it, and the more time that passes from the shock, the clearer it becomes that football, and television contracts around football, had very little to do with this move at all on both the Pitt/Cuse and ACC sides, aside from the obvious fact that everybody involved knew that the big east football situation would be a mess after it happened, which would then significantly impact big east basketball.
ACC football has major issues facing them, that aside from being in an all sports conference that's pretty much unified, were no different than the problems that big east football had. Their BCS automatic qualifying status didn't get improved by adding syracuse and pitt.
They didn't have the media black sheep badge, the big east has that's all. They've got several programs that are in trouble with the NCAA. We don't. The death penalty word was actually put in play around Miami just a few weeks ago.
Syracuse and Pitt moving to the ACC?
So - my answer is why did it happen? Basketball - not football.
Just trying to reason a little bit out here. Not sure what any of it means, but I am becoming convinced that football, and television contracts around football, had very little to do with any of this, and that makes me even less confident in big east leadership.
But the more I think about that, the more I wonder why UConn basketball was not in those back rooms behind closed doors in the dark.
and the more I think about that, I'm pretty glad that we weren't, because that's not the way I want the school to operate.
Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Pitino though, I'm very sure want to know WTF is up, because the smoke and mirrors says it's about football, but in reality, it's just not.
Why syracuse and pitt? why the acc? why why why?
Syracuse and Pitt...football powerhouses? Not for a long time now. Big draws to a football stadium down south? Umm. No. Pitt traveling fans? Yeah right, we're doing better with travelers and we've been at it for a couple years with teh big boys.
Everybody, including me, has been assuming this is about football. TV contracts. Football drives the bus athletically is the old cliche, and it's true. Football is the biggest money maker you can build, and it is where all the television money is going.
The esteemed Tranghese went on national TV whining about football and integrity and loyalty. I'm concerned about football because UConn football is swinging in the breeze right now.
But I keep coming back to why - and the answer i'm getting is...basketball, not football.
Syracuse brings the NY media market in college football? Nope. Pittsburgh brings a major market in college football? Not really, nope. ACC football didn't just add much at all when it comes to TV contracts and football.
It just doesn't make sense. This was either a panic move by the Syracuse and Pittsburgh based on little faith in the big east leadership (can't blame them for being nervous) and it happened behind closed doors that the leadership of the ACC jumped on to weaken the basketball stronghold of the big east on the entire college basketball landscape, or there's really just some personal agenda's involved here from people in positions of power that we'll never know about.
In the long run, I can't see how this will turn out well for Pitt or Syracuse, IF some kind of northeastern all sports league with geographic sense doesn't get put together.
I think that the ACC better seriously be thinking about going to the 16 to solidify the all sports in the northeast, or they're just going to be stuck with two more versions of what they've got in Boston college in Pitt and Syracuse, and nobody down south is going to care about them, and in turn, nobody in the their own backyards is going to care about them.
There is a lot to be said about regional rivalry, and as our university president lays out, the regional rivalries are based on student athletes, and students actually ahve to go to class, and you can't go to class when it takes you three or four days to go play a softball game, or compete in a swim meet every other week.
I don't see this turning out well for either Syracuse or Pitt long term if the ACC fails to add the only other schools that make sense in a 16 team conference,a nd that's us and Rutgers.
West Virginia? Oh man, Frothing at mouth out there in morgantown, if I'm them.
Maybe that's me being vindictive, probably. But is it that unreasonable?
Either way, the more I think about it, and the more time that passes from the shock, the clearer it becomes that football, and television contracts around football, had very little to do with this move at all on both the Pitt/Cuse and ACC sides, aside from the obvious fact that everybody involved knew that the big east football situation would be a mess after it happened, which would then significantly impact big east basketball.
ACC football has major issues facing them, that aside from being in an all sports conference that's pretty much unified, were no different than the problems that big east football had. Their BCS automatic qualifying status didn't get improved by adding syracuse and pitt.
They didn't have the media black sheep badge, the big east has that's all. They've got several programs that are in trouble with the NCAA. We don't. The death penalty word was actually put in play around Miami just a few weeks ago.
Syracuse and Pitt moving to the ACC?
So - my answer is why did it happen? Basketball - not football.
Just trying to reason a little bit out here. Not sure what any of it means, but I am becoming convinced that football, and television contracts around football, had very little to do with any of this, and that makes me even less confident in big east leadership.
But the more I think about that, the more I wonder why UConn basketball was not in those back rooms behind closed doors in the dark.
and the more I think about that, I'm pretty glad that we weren't, because that's not the way I want the school to operate.
Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Pitino though, I'm very sure want to know WTF is up, because the smoke and mirrors says it's about football, but in reality, it's just not.