USF on campus stadium will be nice. Of course, USF don't have NIMBYs near where they are building it. USF is in an area known as suitcase city, yet the area is gentrifying. New student apartments, a new Spouts Markets.
It is a nice grouping. Don't sell Tulane short though. It was in the SEC for a long time.
I know it's not likely but there will be ACC carnage so who knows what will happen. As for Georgetown, I think it would be fine associating with Duke, UNC, Wake, etc.
Academically they are all well-renowned peers (Except State) so yes Georgetown would fit in with the stereotypical ACC school (If they were FBS)
The ACC will still have the ACCN and ESPN always needs programming. The B1G would have to take 2 ACC teams and the SEC 4 teams leaving the ACC with 13 teams plus ND. There are no major brands in the Big 12, but they could lose teams to the SEC and the B1G. Regardless of which conference loses which teams, the remaining teams are all on the same level. ESPN has contracts with both conferences already so there is definitely enough tv slots. It would still be two conferences, but one TV contract. Otherwise the ACC with the superior markets and having its own network would add 3-7 Big 12 teams. UCF, WVU & Cincinnati would easily join the ACC. TCU, KU, Arizona & ASU could be the other 4 teams to join the ACC.
If the 4 top ACC brands leave, then the remnant ACC has no superiority to the Big12 as ESPN will rewrite the ACC media contract. The top 4 ACC brands bring about one-third of the ACC's tv value and without them with a rewritten ESPN contract, they'd fall below the Big12. In that scenario, second tier ACC teams such as Louisville, Pitt, VA Tech would want to move to the Big12.
The remaining ACC teams have bigger markets than the Big 12 teams and they will still have the ACCN. WVU, Cincinnati, UCF will all save on travel expenses big time. TCU, TT will want to be with Stanford & Cal. The infrastructure is just better in the ACC than the Big 12 as is the location of the ACC markets. ESPN would rebuild the ACC with the markets that they want. Notre Dame does not want the ACC to fail either and they’re not giving up their independence unless it’s for a conference that they can control.
Markets don't matter; ratings do.
I would only miss Nova, St. John's, and Georgetown; however, I would give them up for larger schools with fan bases our size. We need to play with big state and private schools that get significant attention, not the sunday school league
the BET/MSG is a great great thing, but I'd give it up before dinnertime to get out of the Big East and into a decent all-sports conference that's a good home for basketball AND football.
Same feeling here
Agreed - just add in Providence to your list. We could play the handful of these rivals in home and home series and or in-season tournaments to satiate the desire to play regional/historic rivals. To stay relevant in the long term we'll need to be with schools that are in our peer group (i.e. not small private schools). We need to be with national and or at least multi-regional schools/brands.
The other conference tournaments blow, Big East tournament is incredible. As a basketball fan nothing beats that Friday night and Saturday night at The Garden. Sunday in Greensboro, Minnesota, and Kansas City is pretty damn boring.
the other tournaments pale in comparison.
Have you ever been to Washington DC?
For me, no one in the big east is important. UConn should be playing like minded public universities, and perhaps a few brand name private large universities. People fear that UConn will go back to AAC days if they leave the Big East, but circumstances were very different back then, UConn athletics will now get the support it needs if it can get to a power conference with like minded schools.
I think the most important to UConn would be closer to the original Big East.
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