I'd like you to kindly reconsider the wording in your post. Average would invoke having some inherent goodness or at least not totally sucking. Save "average" for things that actually deserve it. ^_^
Lambert is just posting what the voices in his head are saying.
When Clemson leaves the ACC, I could see them killing off this series.
I know they are not proposing this, but if they are looking at a two tiered ACC, a promotion/relegation system would be wild.
This isn't a completely new idea, just a variation of a proposal Mike Tranghese (then commissioner of the Big East) made to John Swofford (then ACC commissioner) and the presidents of a few ACC schools in 2000.
Rutgers was in the ACC?
This makes a lot of sense. Could see the power conf grow to 20 and manage their football issues with an internal relegation system.
Big East. It was just before Miami started assembling an unfathomable amount of talent (tail end of the Butch Davis years), Syracuse was still very solid, Va Tech started getting ranked on a regular basis, Pitt, BC and WVU were pretty good while Rutgers and Temple had difficulty with 1AA (now FCS) and we were a couple years away from joining (and in most opinions, bring the bottom of the conference down further).
Relegation has been going on for a while. It started when the Big 8 combined with the SWC and relegated SMU, Houston, Rice, and TCU. When the ACC raided the Big East, they relegated, in the end, UConn and USF. When the Big 10 raided the Pac 12, they relegated, ultimately, Oregon St. and Washington St. And, you can say the Big 12 was relegated from a top league to a lower league with the losses of Texas A&M, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri. In my opinion, there will be schools lost in the ACC and then the remaining schools could be relegated.
I’m thinking of something different. Have an 18 to 22 school conference and for football set the conf schedule every year with a system that has a group A and group B, The A schools play only each other and are given exclusive access to the CFB playoffs and top bowls. The B group plays each other and only get access to the middling and lower bowls. The bottom 3 or 4 of the A group swop with the top 4 of the B at the end of each season.
On this logic, MLB should just put Yankees and Dodgers in WS every year. Let Boston, Cleveland, and Detroit play in a fall series and give them a fake trophy.
Just an FYI if you have cable or YouTube TV or Hulu Plus I think you can put those credentials into the espn app and watch today’s game. Still a pain in the behind though.
This is the first that I've heard about this. Was this reported anywhere?
Thanks...I have Direct TV and internet...do not have Hulu or Youtube TV nor Peacock.....I get ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN family...BTN, ACCN, SECN
It's on ACCNX as well as ESPN+-- If you get the ACC network, you should be able to get the game when logged in with your TV credentials.
Ohh...thanks....I do get ACCN on Direct TV
I actually think ND in the Big East for basketball makes a lot of sense for both parties if the ACC fell apart.
ND claimed the strength of the ACC in olympic sports was a reason to seek out membership in the past, the BE wasn't competitive enough.
It didn't come out until after the BE fell apart when immediately after Cuse & Pitt jumped, ND made their deal with the ACC and then WVU saw the writing on the wall and sold their services to the B-12.
This would be great for UConn and a lot of fun for college football.
I searched for it, but couldn't find it. If that really was the single predicate for the big east falling apart, it was a world class screwup by Trangese. It feels credible though. I vaguely remember him writing to Swofford to apologize for giving the New York Times and interview that was critical of the raid. That's Charmin soft.
