tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538159334790759434.post8427996892297143153..comments2023-12-19T20:12:06.389-05:00Comments on Observations from Above the Rim: ACC Commissioner John Swofford discusses new scheduling formatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538159334790759434.post-11378397202219108072012-02-07T12:08:46.387-05:002012-02-07T12:08:46.387-05:00The move to these 'Mega'conferences is goi...The move to these 'Mega'conferences is going to really have a disastrous effect on College Sports. <br /><br />The ACC was a wonderful conference with great rivalries and with great fans. and then it decided to get rich by adding teams and having Football championships and bigger basketball tournaments that they could sell more tickets to and that they could get more TV money for... and it's lost it's soul.<br /><br />And don't kid yourselves, there'll be two more teams added soon cause 16 is even better than 14.<br /><br />I like the idea Cliff had... it would perpetuate the rivalries from the REAL ACC and still allow the megalomaniacs running this thing to add teams and make money. I will always root for my school, but I'm rapidly losing my interest in being an ACC fan... greed is not attractive.<br /><br />Or how about this... UNC, Duke, Syracuse and the best of the rest can be one division in B-Ball and everyone else can be the other division, and in Football, it can be FSU, VaTech, Miami, and the best of the rest as one division and everyone else in the other.<br /><br />Recruiting at many of the 'other' schools is really going to suffer with a large and lopsided ACC...<br /><br />And no, the ACC isn't the only offending conference, but it's the one I care about...<br /><br />Stoney<br />{getting more jaded all the time... }Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538159334790759434.post-27971440627237020632012-02-05T08:34:22.377-05:002012-02-05T08:34:22.377-05:00At the new size, it would have been more effective...At the new size, it would have been more effective to have two divisions, the original ACC and the newcomers. The original would of course consist of MD, VA, UNC, State, Duke, Clemson and Wake. The other division would be Miami, Va Tech, BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Ga. Tech and FSU. All schools within a division would play each other in football with two or three games against teams outside the division on a rotating basis. The conference champion would be determined in a championship game. In basketball, all teams within a division would play each other twice in the regular season with one game against each of the teams in the other division on a rotating annual home and home basis. For the ACC basketball tourney, the teams would be seeded based on their overall conference records in one group. The top four seeds get a bye. The next 8 play in on the first day and the bottom two do not participate on the tournament and their boosters can either use the tickets or there is a public sale of those tickets. This way we go back to respecting the basketball rivalries that made the ACC great while at the same time respecting some of the old Big East rivalries and the football history of he other programs. True that the newer teams' division might dominate in football, but so be it.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808700104685179156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538159334790759434.post-72814817557908288262012-02-05T08:31:23.253-05:002012-02-05T08:31:23.253-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808700104685179156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538159334790759434.post-36841767987158028792012-02-05T07:35:59.340-05:002012-02-05T07:35:59.340-05:00Just one of the myriad of reasons I have given up ...Just one of the myriad of reasons I have given up watching ACC basketball. Keep watering down a great product, soon there won't be anything left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com