All Realignment Talk Here
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guinness77
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very Possible Mark, time will tell.
Class of 72
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Rutgers and Maryland to the Big was not about football.
Syracuse and Pitt to the ACC was not about football.
It is all about TV revenue streams and the 4-eyed fu*ks, aka, college presidents are sacrificing decades of rivalries, tradition, and success for TV money even if their schools become cellar dwellers in their new conferences. There should be a Harvard case study on BC's move to the ACC to enlighten these scholars calling sports shots out of their arses!
Oh wait, I forgot, it is also about success academically, by association!!! The Rutgers and Maryland grads can now boast that they got their degrees in the same sports conference as the grads from Northwestern and Michigan!! Those kids at Nebraska are thinking the same thing!!! Yes, in the end, the presidents can say it was all about academics and not football or BCS Bowl games and God forbid, schools with 7 billion $ endowments........that is was all about an extra 12 million per year in TV revenue!!!
See linked story regarding the demise of the ACC with the following results:
B10 adds
UVA, Georgia Teck, UNC
SEC adds
NC State, VaTeck
B12 adds
Miami, FlaState, Clemson, Louisville
ACC orphans
University of $yracuse, PITT$burgh, Boston College, Puke, Wake Forest
LINK
http://www.eersauthority.com/expansion-update-acc-on-the-brink/
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NOTE .... The above senerio may aid St.John's in banding with ACC orphans
My first hope is for St.John's interests to be enhanced by coupling with the ACC orphans.
If that dies not happen, I hope $yracuse and PITT$ are passed over.
B10 adds
UVA, Georgia Teck, UNC
SEC adds
NC State, VaTeck
B12 adds
Miami, FlaState, Clemson, Louisville
ACC orphans
University of $yracuse, PITT$burgh, Boston College, Puke, Wake Forest
LINK
http://www.eersauthority.com/expansion-update-acc-on-the-brink/
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NOTE .... The above senerio may aid St.John's in banding with ACC orphans
My first hope is for St.John's interests to be enhanced by coupling with the ACC orphans.
If that dies not happen, I hope $yracuse and PITT$ are passed over.
beast of the east
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Let's face it - as fans we are all duped. It's not about any connection between the players and the school, the team and its fans, the college and alums. It's not about long time rivalries - some almost a century old. It's not about pride in your school. There isn't a connection between the guys in school uniforms and excellence in the classroom. There aren't many student athletes in big time college sports, mostly aspiring professionals. It isn't college teams played by serious students. The fact that it's a university that provides the arena, the uniforms, the coaches, and players is immaterial.
It's a big business with serious dollars at stake. It's screw everything else that is important to the duped fans, and grab for all the money you can.
It's been that way for a very long time, but it's only when things such as the imminence conference crumble is clear, that you know you are screwed as a fan. Sure, we feel happy when a wealthy successful alum steps up and kicks in a large sum of money in order to have influence over the program and help the team hire a big time coach, but that very fact is symptomatic of the problem.
Demonizing opposing coaches like Calhoun, Boeheim, whomever. Just a way for the foolish masses to care more about these silly games when we should. As the turnstyles turn, as our interest grows, TV networks will pay huge bucks for the right to broadcast these games and sell commercial time.
We're not fans, we're pawns.
It's a big business with serious dollars at stake. It's screw everything else that is important to the duped fans, and grab for all the money you can.
It's been that way for a very long time, but it's only when things such as the imminence conference crumble is clear, that you know you are screwed as a fan. Sure, we feel happy when a wealthy successful alum steps up and kicks in a large sum of money in order to have influence over the program and help the team hire a big time coach, but that very fact is symptomatic of the problem.
Demonizing opposing coaches like Calhoun, Boeheim, whomever. Just a way for the foolish masses to care more about these silly games when we should. As the turnstyles turn, as our interest grows, TV networks will pay huge bucks for the right to broadcast these games and sell commercial time.
We're not fans, we're pawns.
For an on-line paper that is focused on west virginia athletics they seem to have a lot of connections to know as much purported information as they claim. I wonder how much they truly know vs. conjecture. It would be a lemonade out lemons story for St. John's if were all true.
Over the summer Syracuse and Pitt fans were so happy and now their new home is on the verge of collapsing
assuming the ACC collapses , a merger with the castoff ACC members will make our new league very formidable basketball wise.
Duke, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Pitt, Villanova, Georgetown, Marquete, Boston College, St. John's, Memphis, Temple, UConn, Seton Hall, SMU , South Florida, UCF, Houston ,Depaul, Cincinati and maybe Notre Dame.
This new league would be better then the old Big East or the old ACC was in basketball and it would be the best in the country hands down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and most important, increase the exit fee to 50 million like the ACC did ! it didn't help them but it'll keep this new league from bolting ( most of them ) !
and what would the new league be called ?
assuming the ACC collapses , a merger with the castoff ACC members will make our new league very formidable basketball wise.
Duke, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Pitt, Villanova, Georgetown, Marquete, Boston College, St. John's, Memphis, Temple, UConn, Seton Hall, SMU , South Florida, UCF, Houston ,Depaul, Cincinati and maybe Notre Dame.
This new league would be better then the old Big East or the old ACC was in basketball and it would be the best in the country hands down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and most important, increase the exit fee to 50 million like the ACC did ! it didn't help them but it'll keep this new league from bolting ( most of them ) !
and what would the new league be called ?