Hello There, Guest! (LoginRegister)

Thread Closed 
What did the ACC really gain
Author Message
Cat's_Claw Offline
All American
*

Posts: 4,606
Joined: Mar 2004
Reputation: 3
I Root For:
Location:
Post: #41
 
OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:The Mac is going after Temple more like Temple going after the MAC. MAC wants hoops too. Temple wants only football. If Temple joins, expect a huge exit fee put into the contract. Marshall and UCF bailed on the MAC for C-USa.

ACC got BC, MIAMI, and VA Tech. BE got UC, Louisville, and USF.  Its not even close. ACC got three power teams. BE got three teams that are borderline BCS material.  With Rutgers, UConn and a struggling Syracuse program, The BE is far weaker than before.

So what? The Big East is still a power conference. And this isn't about who came out the winner between the ACC and the Big East. This is about what did the ACC REALLY gain? Truth be told I think things will work out better for the Big East in the long run. Before it was the Miami show and other Big East schools scrambling to keep up. Now the Big East has 3 legit Top 25 programs and a slew of bowl quality programs. I think the Big East came out far more balanced. And since when is Boston College a power team!!!??? 03-confused
04-30-2005 08:53 PM
Find all posts by this user
brista21 Offline
The Birthplace of College Football
*

Posts: 10,042
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation: 262
I Root For: Rutgers
Location: North Jersey

Donators
Post: #42
 
Cat's_Claw Wrote:
OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:The Mac is going after Temple more like Temple going after the MAC. MAC wants hoops too. Temple wants only football. If Temple joins, expect a huge exit fee put into the contract. Marshall and UCF bailed on the MAC for C-USa.

ACC got BC, MIAMI, and VA Tech. BE got UC, Louisville, and USF.  Its not even close. ACC got three power teams. BE got three teams that are borderline BCS material.  With Rutgers, UConn and a struggling Syracuse program, The BE is far weaker than before.

So what? The Big East is still a power conference. And this isn't about who came out the winner between the ACC and the Big East. This is about what did the ACC REALLY gain? Truth be told I think things will work out better for the Big East in the long run. Before it was the Miami show and other Big East schools scrambling to keep up. Now the Big East has 3 legit Top 25 programs and a slew of bowl quality programs. I think the Big East came out far more balanced. And since when is Boston College a power team!!!??? 03-confused
I agree completely with your sentiments. The Big East is going to be fine, it looks like the BE is about Smart Growth, it wants a Big Ten like football conference and a Big East on roids-like basketball conference. I think that the Big East is much better than Miami, VaTech, and the Big East. I want the Big East name in football to be synonymous with any number of members, just like the Big Ten name in football is synonymous with Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Ohio State, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Penn State is still synonmous with eastern football for most people I think.
04-30-2005 10:26 PM
Find all posts by this user
GunnerFan Offline
1st String
*

Posts: 1,093
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation: 14
I Root For: GT, Cuse
Location: Chicken City, GA
Post: #43
 
The ACC wanted one thing, primarily: To stablize itself at or near the top tier of athletic conferences.

Even if the rumors of the ACC's downfall were premature, the bulk of information points to some form of conference restructuring and/or the NCAA landscape changing. Football had gained in importance, and the BCS had altered forever the level of revenue the inside schools had come to expect. The ACC and likely the BE were facing forces of change from within as well as without, and had to act one way or another. It goes back to the dismissal of Temple and upgrade of UConn. It goes back to the ACC adding FSU... we all know the story.

While things aren't set in stone, it's safe to say the ACC's actions have assured the conference's place among the upper echelons of the NCAA. If the BCS were to die, if TV negotiations were to change, if the BCS schools were to break away from the NCAA... the ACC would be lumped along with the B10, the SEC, the B12 and PAC 10. Even if the money were to change for the worse, it stands to reason that would only happen a) in small doses, and b) only through some action that impacts every school and not just via the ACC losing a bowl bid or something.

The increase in revenue did not come in the volumes desired, a product of who and how the final act involved, but the revenue has increased. More importantly, from the ACC fan's perspective, the level of competition in all sports save perhaps men's basketball has increased. True, the double round-robin schedule is gone, but that's perhaps a fitting thing for the conference that gave birth to the post-season conference tourney. What better way to justify the need for such an event?

Miami will add some swagger and give the resource-rich state of Florida more of an ACC feel. VT will push the growing feature of ACC fans traveling to away games and provide a true sense of regionalism, a la the SEC. BC may end up the foil for all this, but they're not a slouch and as a private school less dependent on regionalism. A marriage of convenience, but one with mutual interest in success.

I feel the BE will be fine and may yet prosper better than before for select schools. The Pitt-WVU-Cincy-UofL quartet will prove a great foundation, and I have faith the UConn faithfull will oversee the growth of football as promised. It won't be as many hoped, but the BE should survive all the purer for having undergone the overhaul.
05-02-2005 04:02 PM
Find all posts by this user
Thread Closed 




User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)


Copyright © 2002-2024 Collegiate Sports Nation Bulletin Board System (CSNbbs), All Rights Reserved.
CSNbbs is an independent fan site and is in no way affiliated to the NCAA or any of the schools and conferences it represents.
This site monetizes links. FTC Disclosure.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.