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ACC votes to add Stanford, Cal, SMU: Conference presidents approve expansion to 18 schools

The bar has now been set exceedingly low.
Whatever realignment is left ....the leagues and media will offer little or no money. That is unless your initials are ND

This ACC deal has devalued future movement which puts Uconn in a tough spot.
 
Ha Who said:
www.cbssports.com

ACC adding Stanford, Cal and SMU means the conference's days of being an elite basketball league are over

Cal, Stanford and SMU will make the ACC bigger, but with 18 teams it will definitely not be better
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Reading this article makes me just shake my head. The ACC sounds like a hot mess. Just feels like all this conference realignment stuff is going to implode at some point. I can't tell you when, but maybe I'll be alive to see it.

Btw, Norlander thinks the Big East will be fine. We'll see if he's right.

Arguably the proudest basketball league of them all is losing its footing, while the Big 12, Big East and SEC are positioned to thrive.
 
BigTenFan said:
The bar has now been set exceedingly low.
Whatever realignment is left ....the leagues and media will offer little or no money. That is unless your initials are ND

This ACC deal has devalued future movement which puts Uconn in a tough spot.
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Exactly. Don't know why the AD is not pushing the issue. The longer UConn is left out of a Power 5 conference, the less leverage they'll have. Poor strategy and communications.
 
gtcam said:
I don't consider Miami, BC, UNC and Wake Forest as elite academic institutions.

SMU is the strangest inclusion into the ACC or any Big Boy conference.

AD David Benedict let this whole issue slip between the cracks - while basking in the NBE transition he let the biggest picture become hazy at best and completely dark at worst. No wonder no SEC teams are knocking at his door as he has long hoped. HCJM must be wondering what he got himself into and if there is really a place for UConn football.

If the ACC dissolves, the top athletic members such as Duke, UVA, UNC, FSU, Miami and Lville will be heading B12/B1G or SEC and UConn will be considered for a new conference with the rest? That's reassuring.

What a complete cluster F to be in.
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You are showing yourself to be clueless as usual. BC, Wake and UNC are all well above average institutions. Your point would have been better served focusing on Louisville, FSU and Pitt.
 
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UConn is the blue and white guy...
 
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The ACC will have to change their name.
 
Fishy said:
You can ignore reality if you’d like.

Talk to someone in the AD and see what they think. Or just read our annual report, any reporting on our athletic budget, anything our AD says on the topic of revenue, the senate budget report that basically declared the deficit unsustainable….

Or, don’t do any of that and just pretend things are cool.
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Agree. The revenue deficit is not sustainable for long. It’s just not. These last few months of CR are another devastating blow to UConn FB. For the short term we are going to be okay, HCJM will continue to upgrade the talent and coach them up as best as he can but you have to believe that he will either retire or move to a Pwhatever team. The admin has to be evaluating an option of cutting FB to save everything else. Not saying it’s the primary option by any stretch but it has to be on the table especially if we are outside of a power conference in 3-4 years.
 
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Wow. All I can think is the Yormarking college participants can Yormark my nut sack.

Not even sure that is possible, but UNC men’s soccer playing in California is CRAZY.
 
ElGreco said:
They are getting ZERO cash for 7 years. Desperation :)
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Between college football money and NCAA tournament credits they will be making more in the ACC then they were in the AAC.
 
zls44 said:
What paid for Dan Hurley and Geno? Magic?
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You realize that Dan Hurley alone makes more than our entire Big East media rights distribution, right?
 
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zls44 said:
What paid for Dan Hurley and Geno? Magic?
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The students.

Remember them? They’re paying Geno and Danny. They pay $450-500 a head directly to athletics and then around $35M that ideally would be spent on them is diverted to athletics to keep that machine alive.

That’s how all of this is working.
 
Fishy said:
Stop it.

Man shiv’d the Big East back in the day, so this is nonsense.
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How did he shiv in the Big East?
 
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uconngb said:
You are showing yourself to be clueless as usual. BC, Wake and UNC are all well above average institutions. Your point would have been better served focusing on Louisville, FSU and Pitt.
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Pitt is better than BC and Wake, but not UNC.
 
Why is an East coast conference like ACC adding two west coast teams from California and one team from Texas. Its ridiculous to have team way outside their geographical region travel that kind of distance to play the likes of Duke, UNC, Syracuse, etc. Why not just rename the ACC since its no longer an east coast-centric conference anymore?
 
CL82 said:
Between college football money and NCAA tournament credits they will be making more in the ACC then they were in the AAC.
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This is what people don't seem to realize about the huge gulf between the P4 and the others.

The P4 have access to huge bundles of cash that aren't even related to their media deals.
 
upstater said:
This is what people don't seem to realize about the huge gulf between the P4 and the others.

The P4 have access to huge bundles of cash that aren't even related to their media deals.
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Bingo.

There are millions of dollars to be had with just the inclusion in a power conference.

SMU will be way ahead.
 
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