Notre Dame to ACC in everything but football

UConn won't bring enough to the table in basketball? In what galaxy? They would immediately be a top 5 ACC team.

 

A top 5 ACC team that's ineligible for the tournmant due to APR issues and will probably be looking for a new coach by the end of this season?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_East_Conference#Current_members

 

Wasn't even considering the recent moves TO the Big East. My faut. Even still, the conference could likely become the WAC-E with JMU/JSU addition (Stupid phone) when the basketball schools tell them to stop fucking around with their shit.

As for the UConn APR deal -- it's one year. APR happens all the time and teams get right over it. The Huskies are still a top tier program and will be for years to come.

 

"The ACC was founded on the cornerstones of balancing academics, athletics and integrity," said ACC commissioner John Swofford in the statement.

Who's he trying to kid?

 

Sorry, but I don't see what the ACC gains by this. They're getting a snow job as ND tries to cover its ass as the Big East disintegrates.

They don't get football completely, ND's only marketable team. They're already playing 3-4 games a year against them anyways. They will steal a mid-level bowl berth from a real conference team. And I'd get it in writing that those 5 games every year are on a home-and home basis, not one game in South Bend and the other at some neutral site, a scheme the Irish now do to almost completely eliminate any true road games.

They don't need ND for men's basketball, since the ACC is already a premier brand. It further destroys historical rivalries that have already been diminished with the elimination of the true round-robin, thanks to previous ACC expansion.

And now you've increased the transportation costs for your non-revenue sports - which nobody cares about anyways - by thousands of dollars per school per year. Now you're subjecting your athletes to more missed class time and a long road trip to a Midwestern rustbelt shithole that's even a worse place to visit in the winter and spring.

Maybe by going to 15 they're getting ready to kick out Wake, which doesn't really fit the ACC profile anymore.

 

UConn is the first BCS school ever sanctioned for APR non-compliance. The other schools penalized last year were Arkansas-Pine Bluff, California-Riverside, Cal State Bakersfield, Jacksonville State, Mississippi Valley State, North Carolina-Wilmington, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Toledo and Towson.

 

Well gee, when he puts it that way, UConn is a perfect fit.

 

I don't know who he's trying to kid, but the sanctimony is very very Notre Damey.

 

And those schools never miss a beat. They stay right where they always are. They don't all-of-a-sudden lose 20 games a year because of this. I've been through APR sanctions with Jacksonville State's football team. The best team we've had in 25 years was ineligible for the playoffs with Ryan Perrilloux at QB (The year Jax State nearly upset FSU). Didn't matter, the team came back the next year and beat Ole Miss. APR is not as big of a deal as one might think.

 

Yeah, because Jacksonville State and UConn are playing at the same level.

UConn without Calhoun and with the history of sanctions now is a different animal. We know the NCAA won't actually investigate them, but if Yahoo draws another roadmap, it could be ugly.