I know a lot of Syracuse people..get to that in a second...but as long as things to get duckked up by the basketball centric leadership we've got, the big east conference will have a lucrative several years ahead of them in the broadcasting world as a 12 team football conference and a hybrid basketball conference. How long it would last? who knows, depends on the broadcasting contract.
Back to the syracuse people. I'm going to actually feel real bad for those folks, if they actually do rise to the top in football and basketball in coming years, and get to play a football or basketball championship somewhere in the Carolina's, instead of new york city.
If Syracuse and UConn had made the move to the ACC, the big east would be in HUGE trouble. Perhaps there's a lot of hubris in that from me, so what....doesn't make it wrong.
I think that a big east conference minus syracuse and uconn, and instead of syracuse and pitt has a much harder time surviving, that's all, and the ACC has no trouble moving it's championships to the media capital of the world.
But we still get new york city, in basketball, and we'll hopefully very soon, have it in football too.
If anybody is foolish enough to think that the new york yankee organization won't put eveyrthing they've got into making a big east championship game at yankee stadium successful? I don't know what to tell you. College football at yankee stadium inthe bronx, and at the polo grounds in manhattan was once very, very big. The reason isn't because college football was different, it's because new york is the media capital of the world, and the landscape of college football changed dramatically between the late 1960s and late 1970s with the move toward the division of college football into 1-A and 1-AA football, and there weren't any teams in the area any more to play regularly.
One of george steinbrenner's dreams (and he as a football guy before he was a baseball guy), coached with Lou Saban.....was to return college football to new york city. Had he had more success as a football caoch early on, he might have never taken over th shipbuilding business his dad owned, and the yankees....well who knows.
His kids are following through on it - college football in the bronx.
And the nicest thing about going to new york, for a football game in december, or baskeball games in march, is that ummm..
You get to hang out in New York City!!!!
I really hope it happens. I'd go to yankee stadium to see the big east championship game, regardless of who's playing.
