Should Syracuse, Pitt & the ACC Be Worried?

[NYCRedmen]

 While nothing is official yet I am sure given yesterday's unanimous recommendation at the BCS meetings, that it's only a matter of time before the college football powers drop the current format & put in place a Final Four College Football National Championship format. If the current proposal is adopted, there will be a "selection committee" just like the basketball one. They will in all likelihood use strength of schedule & winning your conference championship as 2 major factors in making their selections, based on yesterdays reports. Now how is this for an interesting scenario...

Lets say that the regular season has ended, now the committee has to select the "top 4 teams in the country" using those factors, it's hard to imagine the conference champ of the SEC, Pac 12, Big 10 & Big 12 not being in the conversation given how they are historically the top 4 football conferences every year. I don't care how good Florida St, Miami or Virginia Tech are during a given season, the fact is that unless the ACC champ is ranked #1 or 2 and undefeated, they may have a hard time cracking that top 4 in the eyes of the Committee, given how much weaker the ACC is compared to those other conferences. Hell, the SEC alone can make an argument in most years of possibly having 2 or 3 of the top 4 teams in the country. Throw in wild cards like Notre Dame & Boise St, it could only make things more interesting for them.

While this is all speculation, it's funny to think that in the end, schools like VT, Miami, BC, Pitt, Syracuse & West Virginia might have been better as one solid group instead of floating off to 2 or 3 different conferences.

 

[logen]

You are missing the point; like most of todays businesses those schools did not base their decisions on any long term outlook; they went for the quick money.  

 

[MCNPA]

 Pitt and Cuse didn't leave anywhere just yet. If Fsu and Clemson bolt for the Big 12 which IMO they WILL do, I don't see much benefit for Cuse and Pitt to leave the Big East at all.

I think V-tech will push for an SEC bid as the fact is the SEC doesnt have a Virginia school in their conference and V-tech fits the bill perfectly for a move to the SEC. IF that does happen, Big East should go on an offensive to try to keep Pitt and Cuse and decimate the ACC by grabbing BC back. Maybe I'm just daydreaming but I think the ACC is in trouble and maybe more so than the Big East was the last year or two.

 

[Mean Gene]

 If Clemson and Fla St. leave for the Big 12 and Va Tech leaves for the SEC, the ACC and the Big East should just merge and create a super conference.

 

[NYCRedmen]

You are missing the point; like most of todays businesses those schools did not base their decisions on any long term outlook; they went for the quick money.  

 

I agree but wouldn't you think they would get more money if the ACC was guaranteed a spot in the "Final Four" than if they get left out? I'm just saying that it's possible that things could play out a bit differently than Syracuse & Pitt initially were thinking, and the ACC for that matter. Don't get me wrong, the Big East also stands to lose in this format as well with or without Boise St, but just think of the Big East if all of those schools were still together....better than the SEC, Pac 12, Big 12 or Big 10...maybe not but much closer than without them.

 

[MCNPA]

 If Clemson and Fla St. leave for the Big 12 and Va Tech leaves for the SEC, the ACC and the Big East should just merge and create a super conference.

 

I like the super-conference idea. At that point though, the football schools in both the big east and the ACC would really have no need for the bball schools. While it is nice in theory, it would probably spell the worst-case scenario for the bball-only schools.

 

[ras]

 It would be nice for the ACC to get a taste of their own medicine. But I would be more worried about the BE. The ACC seems like they can pluck BE teams at will.

 

[bamafan]

You are missing the point; like most of todays businesses those schools did not base their decisions on any long term outlook; they went for the quick money.  

 

I agree but wouldn't you think they would get more money if the ACC was guaranteed a spot in the "Final Four" than if they get left out? I'm just saying that it's possible that things could play out a bit differently than Syracuse & Pitt initially were thinking, and the ACC for that matter. Don't get me wrong, the Big East also stands to lose in this format as well with or without Boise St, but just think of the Big East if all of those schools were still together....better than the SEC, Pac 12, Big 12 or Big 10...maybe not but much closer than without them.

No conference is going to be guaranteed a spot in the final four. 

 

[NYCRedmen]

You are missing the point; like most of todays businesses those schools did not base their decisions on any long term outlook; they went for the quick money.  

 

I agree but wouldn't you think they would get more money if the ACC was guaranteed a spot in the "Final Four" than if they get left out? I'm just saying that it's possible that things could play out a bit differently than Syracuse & Pitt initially were thinking, and the ACC for that matter. Don't get me wrong, the Big East also stands to lose in this format as well with or without Boise St, but just think of the Big East if all of those schools were still together....better than the SEC, Pac 12, Big 12 or Big 10...maybe not but much closer than without them.

No conference is going to be guaranteed a spot in the final four. 

 

I mean figuratively. Football has always been a traditional "good ol boy" system, especially with the bowl games. I just think that the other 4 major conferences may have more influence in the eyes of a "selection committee".