Pitt, Syracuse move ACC ahead in college hypocrisy derby
That's SEC's Mike Slive to left and ACC's John Swofford in middle. Each plot to take over world.
Congratulations ACC: You just killed a conference.
Funny. That never was mentioned in the ACC-Syracuse-Pittsburgh teleconference Sunday morning. It was all about patting each other on the back and — let me quote John Swofford directly: “This is a monumental day in the history of our league.”
The Big East? Collateral damage.
The ACC confirmed this morning what had been speculated for a few days: It walked through the back door of the Big East when nobody was looking and the lights were turned out and heisted Syracuse and Pitt from the Big East. And the buildings in college sports Armageddon continue to crumble.
Wake me when college presidents hold their next press conference on the virtues of amateur athletics and academic reform.
After Pacific 10 expansion (with more to come), and impending SEC expansion with Texas A&M (with more to come) and Big Ten expansion (with more to come), the ACC again proved it’s just as bad as the rest of them.
Tradition and regional rivalries and all the makes college sports so wonderfully unique just took another hit. This all comes with a fatter television contract serving as the primary — make that only — motivating factor. The next college president who waves the flag of amateurism gets a pie in the face.
Just can’t wait for those natural geographic rivalry games between Syracuse and Wake Forest, and Pitt and Clemson. The ACC will now have 14 members spread over nine states: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts.
When do they move north into the Maritimes or south into Cuba? The conference schedule should come with a GPS. Or a rail pass. Or a space shuttle.
When the Big East folds into oblivion — or at least is rendered meaningless on the college sports landscape — it can point to the ACC as the relative Axis powers, having lost five schools to the conference: Boston College, Miami, Virginia Tech, Pitt, Syracuse.
Yeah, I guess I’m just old. I’ve been banging on this drum for weeks. What others see as progress, I see as a wrecking ball. Four 16-team conferences, which is where we’re headed, accomplishes nothing in the big picture.
All it does is shoot the big picture full of holes.
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• Texas A&M’s move to SEC evidence of NCAA’s lost mission
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the headache go away. We’ll know more over the next few weeks.
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September 20th, 2011
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duronimo
September 20th, 2011
10:20 pm
Jeff, I agree with your assessment. Looks like everyone has ants in their pants and are just reacting. The college game was built upon natural rivalries — schools in relatively close proximity. Tech can’t fill their stadium simply because they are playing a schedule of mostly non-rivals. All of this seems lost in the current discussions. As long as TV money is there, do the fans really matter?
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Not Disappointed!
September 21st, 2011
11:17 am
Love it!
Pitbull
September 21st, 2011
11:40 am
I’m just glad the SEC got rid of that trash on North Avenue back in 1966.
LakeDawg
September 21st, 2011
6:06 pm
Jeff, you are right on the money. I’m losing enthusiasm for college football and its always been one of the loves of my life. Conference affiliation now means nothing more than a business contract. SEC…who cares. Just a UGA fan now and I don’t know how long that will last. I think I might just become a fair weather fan of the Falcons. If I have to choose between two pro leagues, I’ll choose the NFL.
Morris Boley
September 21st, 2011
6:20 pm
Adding UCONN and Rutgers to the ACC would create a north and south division, split at the Virginia/North Carolina border. Each division would be the size of the old ACC. Of course, they are all east coast states. What I can’t see is the ACC going after Texas and Notre Dame,even though they would be great additions for any conference. They just don’t belong in a west or east coast league. Notre Dame should be in the Big 10. Texas in the SEC, with the rest of the good ole boys.
PigIron
September 22nd, 2011
8:48 pm
The ACC can get anyone they choose — from the Big East Conference.
nopureone1
September 25th, 2011
6:49 am
Carober says:
“Those comments are childish and, more importantly, blissfully ignorant of reality.”
Dear Clueless, you are the one being a blissfully ignorant retard! An English broadsword, would be quite useful for slicing your dead brain cells open.
UF in a mirror is FU says:
“You bloggers who are defending this action are missing the point. This is only about money, and you reply “big deal”.”
Well, add “UF in a mirror is FU” to the list of guys who don’t know the difference between posting an intelligent comment and being a retard. So sad.
TexGT says:
“I vote fire Swofford.”
And I vote to have “TexGT” set on fire with his remains given to cannibals!
GTJeff says:
“GR82BAG8R you are an idiot.”
Also mentally brain dead as well! Well said, GTJeff you are a true patriot!
povox says:
“Based on some of the comments, I wonder how many of you actually read what Jeff writes. Do you make it past the the headline? Otherwise it appears your levels of reading comprehension are more on par with APS students.”
This hypocritical comment coming form someone who apparently can’t read pass the headline himself! Too bad you weren’t in that cave back in May with your idol “Binny” so you can have your brains blown out too by our beloved Navy Seals! God bless them!
observer says:
“THis is historic……for me.
This is the first time I have ever agreed with Jeff Schitz on anything.”
You should know since you obviously sleep with him!
@PigIron
You are a pain in the arse who never posts anything relevant and just nitpicks about those who do. Why not get a life?
And finally the biggest pile of #2 of them all! Jeff Schultz, first it was crappy Atlanta Thrasher articles about them staying and that everybody are retards who think otherwise, then it was slander against Winnipeg when you turned out to be wrong, and now you come with your biggest pile of drivel to date! We thought long and hard to put an end to communism in the 1970’s and you pieces of garbage treat us like that rather than give us the hero’s welcome we deserve while writing garbage articles like this! Here’s hoping you take a powerful hit in the back of your neck so you know what poor Christopher Reeve (god bless that poor man) had to go through! Oh and take PigIron too while you are at it! The sooner you two can’t write drivel anymore, the better this site will be!
God bless all my fellow troops from back in the day.
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