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raise your hand...
It mattered when the ACC added Pitt and Syracuse.
It did? That was all football and the football contract. All things being equal, that took basketball into account, but those schools were selected to get more TV money and the vast majority of TV money is football.
It did? That was all football and the football contract. All things being equal, that took basketball into account, but those schools were selected to get more TV money and the vast majority of TV money is football.
It matters so much that three also rans are leaving for new secure homes while the best program in the country over the last 15 years is left hanging on for dear life...And last year, when it looked like the B-12 would implode, one of the sport's blue bloods looked like it would be left by the wayside...I don't advocate dropping basketball but it is important to relaize that it is only marginally more valuable than soccer in the current environment.
Did you just call Pitt, Cuse, and WVU also-ran basketball programs?It matters so much that three also rans are leaving for new secure homes while the best program in the country over the last 15 years is left hanging on for dear life...And last year, when it looked like the B-12 would implode, one of the sport's blue bloods looked like it would be left by the wayside...I don't advocate dropping basketball but it is important to relaize that it is only marginally more valuable than soccer in the current environment.
And the sum total of their last 15 years together postseason games and national championships is 1? Sure they're better than most of the ACC brethren but we are the #1-3 best men's program for the last 12 years and the #1 women's programs. So yes brass ones, they are also rans compared to UConn. Not getting in a cat fight here but he's comparing them to UConn.Did you just call Pitt, Cuse, and WVU also-ran basketball programs?
In all the places where it's too cold to do anything outside but ski and skate in the winter, basketball is huge. I don't know the TV facts and figures but I think some here vastly underestimate it's worth. After football it's clearly the number 2 revenue producer. In some conferences, it is the number 1 revenue producer. I read somewhere that Louisville makes more money on basketball than most of the top football programs.