If you read between the lines, it looks like the Big East, which is still smarting from three of its members joining the ACC, is getting a little desperate when it comes to its position in the landscape of college football. And the reality of college sports is that it is football that drives change, […]
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Friday Afternoon Sanity Break
While we calmly and patiently wait for certain events to work themselves out, I wanted to share with you another possible divisional alignment for ACC football. The ACC guru in my office worked this out based on a lunchtime observation that I made. In the comments, share your guesses on how we came up with […]
ACC Realignment on the Horizon?
Via Warchant.com and quite a number of other sites, word is filtering out around the web that the ACC may re-align its football divisions. This would presumably happen when the current ACC football schedule expires in 2015. Boston College and Maryland would be moving from the Atlantic to the Coastal with Miami and Georgia Tech […]
Has realignment worked?
Long article and a good read. When the ACC begins negotiations next year on a new TV contract, the league will be in year six of its move to a 12-team, two-division superconference. In many ways, the strength of that next deal will serve as a referendum on the ACC’s expansion, which added Miami, Virginia […]
ACC Expansion Revenue Comparison
The ACC hasn’t gotten appreciably richer than any other conference lately. ACC membership is the best thing to happen to Virginia Tech since Frank Beamer. Boston College is another big winner. Miami will have to get used to smaller payoffs for success in return for revenue certainty. Please note – the information contained in this […]
Money Keeps Growing for the ACC
We have so many new readers coming to SFN every day that many of you have missed some of the great entries of the past. Back around Christmas – when site traffic is also organically low – LRM ran a fantastic analysis of ACC expansion. We wanted to highlight it today for everyone since it […]
The Demise of ACC Football
Inane utterances from the local media, gross inaccuracies perpetrated by the national media, and glaring inadequacies of State’s athletic department frequently provide topics to address here. But every so often, someone in one of the organizations that we often ridicule will absolutely nail an issue. Such is the case with an article today by Pete […]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part II: Measuring Success
To most of us, the ACC is inherent to our culture, and we’ve seen it go through exceptional changes over the past twenty years. Following is the second of a two-part discussion (Part I: Evolution) focusing on how college football, and the ACC in particular, has changed and how this recent evolution of college football […]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part I: Evolution
There is no question that the college football we all enjoy now is not the same college football we enjoyed as kids, evidenced primarily by the excessive number of bowls and the intense debate over the need for a playoff system. Personally, my favorite football season as an 11-year old kid was the ridiculous 1990: […]
Reminiscing About ACC Expansion
Memories can be a funny thing. I suspect that the trivial items that stick in our brains are somehow related to our individual personality. Some people tend to think (and remember) the best….and others the worst. Some people are so self-absorbed that they only remember things that directly impact them. Some people have near photographic […]
