We could see a split on the basketball side that could lead to 1-A and 1-AA just like football.And maybe...this is not just football, but all sports...requiring more schollies for non revenue sports, AD spending levels etc.
The details will be very interesting.
The proposal could be 180 degrees different than what some pundits would say might happen....i.e., there will be a top level Div 1 for football, but it wouldn't include other sports. In other words, you can be in the top tier Div 1 for football, but another division, or conference, for other sports.
That might not be the strategy here. A "All Sports" strategy would be a very Big Ten - SEC oriented policy. Neither conference ever wanted to stray from the "all sports" conference structure.
Who wouldn't do that?Here's what I'm hearing: The new D1 rules for basketball will institute attendance requirements for the conference tournaments. And the most shocking thing about this inside scoop is that the ACC is dangerously close to falling out of D1 because of the new requirements. But there's a plan now among ACC ADs to buy as many of those $3 tickets as possible in order to give them to school children to fill those seats.
It's because the tournament most of the time is in North Carolina. The tournament needs to be moved to NY City or Atlanta, need to take it out of North Carolina.Here's what I'm hearing: The new D1 rules for basketball will institute attendance requirements for the conference tournaments. And the most shocking thing about this inside scoop is that the ACC is dangerously close to falling out of D1 because of the new requirements. But there's a plan now among ACC ADs to buy as many of those $3 tickets as possible in order to give them to school children to fill those seats.
The ACC is excellent at filling seats. It doesn't even cost them a lot to buy them all up and give them away. Gotta hand it to them.The 2019 average basketball attendance...national ranking
Syracuse... #1
UNC...#3
Louisville...#6
Virginia...#16
NC State...#20
Duke and FSU in top 50...another six teams ranked in the 60's and 70's.
I was thinking the opposite. The southern conference needs to keep the tournament in its home state where its best programs are. NYC isn't a short drive for any of those schools, never mind Duke and UNC. NYC makes no sense. Maybe the ACC will shoot for Philly, Houston and LA next.It's because the tournament most of the time is in North Carolina. The tournament needs to be moved to NY City or Atlanta, need to take it out of North Carolina.
It's time to make it a real league, and not just North Carolina.
If I were them I would hold the tournament in DC. Other good choices would be Miami, Charlotte, and maybe Boston one year.I was thinking the opposite. The southern conference needs to keep the tournament in its home state where its best programs are. NYC isn't a short drive for any of those schools, never mind Duke and UNC. NYC makes no sense. Maybe the ACC will shoot for Philly, Houston and LA next.
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Seems to me the ACC tourny should be in NC permanently. Its a tobacco conf.....thats a fish out of water in places like Brooklyn, Philly and some respects DC too.If I were them I would hold the tournament in DC. Other good choices would be Miami, Charlotte, and maybe Boston one year.
Always interesting to see on a map what outliers BCU, University of Canada, The Pitts, ND & LCC really are. Maryland, Rutgirls & UConn would make for a much better looking alignment, Just drop Pitt, ND & LCC. I realize it won't happen, just talking map hypotheticals. Location wise, Nova would be good too. Maybe it one of those alternate universes it's happening.I was thinking the opposite. The southern conference needs to keep the tournament in its home state where its best programs are. NYC isn't a short drive for any of those schools, never mind Duke and UNC. NYC makes no sense. Maybe the ACC will shoot for Philly, Houston and LA next.
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Nobody in Boston cares about college sports. Most people in Boston couldn't name a school that plays in the ACC.If I were them I would hold the tournament in DC. Other good choices would be Miami, Charlotte, and maybe Boston one year.
UCONN, Rutgers, Temple, Maryland would make for a nice regional pairing in any conference. still can't believe Maryland and Rutgers are in the B1G.Always interesting to see on a map what outliers BCU, University of Canada, The Pitts, ND & LCC really are. Maryland, Rutgirls & UConn would make for a much better looking alignment, Just drop Pitt, ND & LCC. I realize it won't happen, just talking map hypotheticals. Location wise, Nova would be good too. Maybe it one of those alternate universes it's happening.
If you ask them that question the answer would probably be Duke.Nobody in Boston cares about college sports. Most people in Boston couldn't name a school that plays in the ACC.
This is the recipe for success (each with only 1 or 2 exceptions):I never liked the move of the ACC into the northeast.
Made no geographic sense to have a geographic spread from Little Havana to near Canada.
Regionalism still works...The SEC owns a swath from Texas and oklahoma through Arkansas, Louisianna, Mississippi, and on across the southeast to the coast.
The Big East has a commonality that goes beyond geography...basketball...no matter where it is played...Gonzaga could feel at home in the BE with kindred spirits. The SEC has a commonality as well (football).
The ACC has a lack of commanaility...basketball? football? south? north?
This is the recipe for success (each with only 1 or 2 exceptions):
B1G = State Flagships across the north
SEC = State Flagships/Publics across the south
PAC = State Flagships/Publics in the west
Big East = Basketball, Privates
not too tasty
ACC = carolinas, public, private, large, small, catholic, nonsectarian, some basketball, some football, some hockey
B1g 12 = dying
AAC = half-way house
"Casual."The universities and NCAA have nobody to blame but themselves for the mess this has become. These conference alignments came about because of the dollars associated with media deals that were what - 5 -10 year deals? There was no strategy as to what the truly long-term impact would be on these universities, the alumni and the fanbases. The only conference that has been relatively true to a strategy is the BiG and to a lesser extent the SEC.
In my opinion this is all about to come home to roost. The money that is available will make thieves out of the best of these schools and now with NIL its going to cost a lot to play. There is nothing benevolent about this process anymore. When it comes time to divvy up the cash, the Texas's of the world are going to ask what the hell Vanderbilt is doing at the table. It will bifurcate with the elite programs being essentially professional sport franchises. Not particularly interesting to me, but maybe I'm not the typical college fan.