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The author is blown away because it wasn't ESPN that got the carriage for the ACC Network and SEC Network. It was The Walt Disney Company that got the carriage. Cable providers for the most part won't risk losing all families with kids by losing the Disney Channel and ABC. They'll give...

The ACC's experience at Barclays Center last year was positive. The Semifinals had sold out attendance. But both the Barclays Center and MSG have long term contracts with the Atlantic 10 and the Big East respectively. And MSG only wants a long term annual agreement. The ACC had to negotiate...

Wake Forest has 8 NCAA team championships in 4 different sports. Wake Forest is 8-4 in bowl games, and defeated Texas A&M last month. Wake Forest is 28-23 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament with 23 appearances including 2017. These are not laughing stock records. Wake Forest would...

It's really difficult at this point to tell what the ACC would do. I could have told you what the ACC team that studied expansion in 2012 would do, but we have mostly new players now. UVA, UNC, VT, Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, Florida State, Louisville, and Clemson all have new Presidents, and most...

If you read the media out there in Minnesota land, they're not seeing that the extra dollars in the check are worth it. They want the Midwest conference they are used to. Not much interest in being in the east at all. In fact more complaints. Muddled Big Ten basketball schedule a result...

The Ivy League deemphasized sports starting in the 1950s when it was formed. That should create an opportunity for others to fill the vacuum, as it was a very long time ago. I've seen the time when UConn was selling out its football stadium a decade ago. The coach who did it is back, and...

Regional rivalries are what drives fan interest and attention IMO. It's important to have them and to promote them in both cases. Both sides tune in to follow what the rival side is doing. BC's DeFilippo didn't think that important, but I think he's wrong. I don't think BC can represent all...

Yes. It's the same thing. Pitt, Miami, and Georgia Tech too. With all the pro sports competition the schools in those towns have to be having championship type seasons to get any attention, kind of how Miami was rolling this year. When they have awful years like BC a few years ago, no one is...

Louisville Athletics functions as the professional sports franchise for their 1.5 million person metro area. They have virtually no competition other than their rivalry with UK, and that rivalry only enhances the attention of the area with its disposable sports entertainment dollar. That's why...

I'm not hearing a lot of calls to kick Louisville out of the conference. The UVA President is certainly not going to get involved with how another university president spends his/her university's endowment funds. The auditors at Louisville took issue with the spending, but Louisville President...

Interesting perspective, but as someone in the ACC, just not feeling it. It's hard to reconcile with recent articles like this This A.C.C. Might Be the Best Basketball League Ever and the ACC winning 11 out of the 14 games in the ACC-B1G challenge for men's basketball a couple of months...

Those games in Lynchburg won't be like a VT road game. All that will do is reduce the commute for the convoys that drive to the VT home games from Richmond, Tidewater, and Northern Virginia by 90 minutes. Liberty may have a larger stadium by then, and it will sell out for that game. The VT...

I like it too. 8 of the 12 are in the ACC now. Bring in UConn and WVU, and we'd have 10. Leave ND alone doing what ND is doing.

Just a Michigan fan from Detroit showing how thrilled he is to have Maryland and Rutgers on Michigan's schedule. He's gone back to trying to pull Notre Dame, UVA, and UNC into the B1G instead. No thanks.

I remember reading that interview by Mark Blaudshun at the time. Gene DeFilippo was part of the push for Pittsburgh. He held a grudge over the lawsuit of 2003. But he is gone now. With BC now scheduling UConn and UMass regularly, hopefully they recognize that they truly do need regional...