michibull

I think if the ACC only lost FSU and Clemson, picked up Pac2, USF and UCONN, it would be a much better and more valuable product than B12 (for basketball and football).

Man, I wish we could keep him indefinitely. I like everything about this man, has quickly become one of my all time favorite coaches. I know it’s only been a year, but the intangibles are there. As long as he is coaching our Bulls, we’ll be a good solid program!!

I have to say, seeing it in color, it looks a lot better. While not what I was hoping, I’ll be happy with it and to finally have a real home for our football team.

You’re spot on with this. There are multiple reasons that the NBA is terrible and the draft means nothing. One of the reasons are the one and done’s. Drafting a Jr or Sr has given the young man time to grow (physically, mentally and emotionally). You start to find the leaders, hard workers and busts. The NBA draft is pointless outside of the top 3 because they are just taking a chance on a young player. Back in the 80’s and 90’s at least a 1/3 of the first round had contributing players with careers, not anymore. These NBA executives are foolish with how they do it. The NFL is completely different.

Agreed, if a super league is created and there are 80 teams in 10 division, all of these conference clusters go away. I’m sure they will try and keep rivalries like Mich/OSU, UF/UGA, USC/UCLA together, but everything else is scrapped and rebooted (which the divisions will resemble conferences before all of the expansion started back pre 2006, haha).

You’re looking at it from the wrong point of view. This format would allow us to control our own destiny and push our administration to prioritize winning. Right now we could go undefeated every year and not be included in the CFP or expansion. This format, as long as we play well and win, we stay in the top tier.

Honestly, if we take an objective view, it’s what needs to happen. When it comes to basketball and football, colleges are the minor leagues for the NFL and NBA; time to treat it as such. I am a traditionalist, but even I can see that my childhood college football and basketball are dead, time to evolve. I like that the bottom 10 teams can be relegated, will still give us a chance to be elevated. My preference would be to have the UFL (ex USFL/XFL) grow to be the minor league for football (hold an amateur draft for the best HS and College players for UFL and NFL) every year and let the NCAA carry on with the real student athletes; but that won’t happen.

I have no inside info on this, but I highly doubt UL, Pitt and Syracuse would vote out, I don’t think they would have a home (I don’t even think NCST has a home, nobody even talk ls about them; other than trying to follow UNC). In addition, since ND is part time, do they count as a full vote? Like I said, I don’t know, just my worthless 2 cents, haha.

Haha, yeah, they say U of M up here. I personally don’t like them or their fans.

The only hang up for us is if the ACC wants western partnered for Cal/Stanford, then OSU/WSU/SDSU become real threats to us.

I agree. If it is ONLY FSU and Clemson, I think we stand a good chance of getting invited to the ACC, if we are invited along with OSU, WSU and a couple others the ACC would still be better than the B12; and if the ACC can renegotiate or find that there needs to be a balance of 4 power conferences and hold to it, it could be the absolute best scenario for us.

This would be the best case scenario for us. The ACC is going to have to expand by a handful of schools, and I think we would be near the top.

I actually agree with you. If conferences had stopped at 16 teams, then I think the B12 may regret one or two, but is 20-24 is the goal, they pick good ones. To add, if I were the B12, from the ACC I would avoid BC, NCST or WK and add USF and Tulane before some of them.

Exactly!! That is why I have never been huge fan of fancy suites. We are not an NFL/big business team. We need a sound quality stadium, with potential for expansion later. We just need bleacher seating for most areas, enough suites to help make it profitable and a quality foundation to build upon. At the end of the day, USF football will finally have a home of its own!!

I honestly don’t see the ACC going the way of the PAC12. Schools like BC, Pitt WF, Syracuse, NCST have nowhere to go, even the B12 won’t want them. I truly believe enough of them know this and will make “alliances” to keep a decent group of 6-8 schools together and rebuild with the best of the rest. It will end up being BIG/SEC as the big 2 and then B12/ACC as the next 2 then everyone else.