ACC Push for MSG Tourney

[Groin_pull]

The longer it takes for this to possibly happen, the less the likelihood that Krzyzewski, Boeheim and possibly Pitino will still be coaching. And hopefully the "newness" of being in the Big East will bring big crowds from Butler, Creighton and Xavier.

Really hope you're right. But schools like Syracuse, Duke, and UNC are such big names, I'm not sure it'll matter who's coaching. They'll continue being successful.

Guess we'll see, because you're right, none of those coaches are getting any younger.

[Spotcheck Billy]

here's a perspective from DBR (a Duke blog)
http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=47353

In the ACC spring meetings, various parties including the new arrivals are pushing to move the ACC Tournament to Madison Square Garden. There is a problem: MSG has no interest in rotating the tournament.  Certainly the North Carolina schools will want the tournament in the traditional footprint of the ACC and we would expect some sympathy from Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson and Georgia Tech. Greensboro is an easier trip.

Most people would be okay with rotating it we expect but moving it permanently? Not a wise move. You can ask NASCAR and the NHL what happens when you disrupt traditions and alienate your core fans. It's not a good thing to do.

[Benny B]

here's a perspective from DBR (a Duke blog)
http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=47353

EXACTLY.  Does MSG want to host the ACC Tournament once every three years or do they want to host the Big East Tournament every year?

[The Equalizer]

if conference re-alignment starts up again there may not be an ACC as we know it to worry about losing MSG

It will be 14 years before the ACC will lose a team due to re-alignment.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9200081/acc-media-rights-deal-lock-schools-okd-presidents.

The longer it takes for this to possibly happen, the less the likelihood that Krzyzewski, Boeheim and possibly Pitino will still be coaching. And hopefully the "newness" of being in the Big East will bring big crowds from Butler, Creighton and Xavier.

You cited a couple of final-four programs that surived a coaching transition. Duke survived the transition from Foster to Krzyzewski. Louisville survived the transition from Crum to Pitino.  Yeah, there might e a year or two of rebuilding, but the notion that these programs will suffer permanently when they go through a coaching change is just silly.

Far more likely that Butler is unable to survive a future transition from Stevens or Xavier doesn't recover from the Miller to Mack transition that left them out of the NCAA tournament than UL, SU, or Duke will become mid-majors when their coaches leave.

[Eldon]

I'm just hoping that Maryland pays $10-20 million for its buyout fees (as opposed to 50) and the ACC crumbles.  If Maryland pays substantially less than $50, I bet Florida State leaves the conference, effectively challenging that new let's-keep-all-the-TV-revenue-even-if-you-leave deal that the ACC just signed recently. 

[Spotcheck Billy]

It will be 14 years before the ACC will lose a team due to re-alignment.

one would think so unless something like this happens

In many ways, the future of the organization(NCAA) is in flux, but Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has a few suggestions about the way things should be – some of which would change the way the top level of college sports is run for good.

The main thrust of Smith's argument is that the top 60 to 70 schools in Division I should be placed into a new division that allows those schools – the top revenue producers in college sports – to play by what he considers a more sane set of rules.

Smith presented his ideas to a group of about 80 athletics directors that met a few weeks ago in California and has some support for his theory.
http://ohiostate.scout.com/2/1291974.html

[GGGG]

I'm just hoping that Maryland pays $10-20 million for its buyout fees (as opposed to 50) and the ACC crumbles.  If Maryland pays substantially less than $50, I bet Florida State leaves the conference, effectively challenging that new let's-keep-all-the-TV-revenue-even-if-you-leave deal that the ACC just signed recently.  

Not happening.  Florida State willingly signed the grant of rights agreement.  The ACC is going to be just fine.  Even if Florida State left, the ACC would be just fine.

[The Equalizer]

one would think so unless something like this happens

Even then, I don't see the ACC disolving--every current ACC team would be part of that top 60-80 team division (along with every B12, B10, SEC and P10 member).

The qeustion is whether the next tier would include the best of the rest football programs, or if they would consider basketball only schools.

The biggest risk of the basketball teams splitting from the BE is that there is a possiblity that in the future we're relegated to a status as one of the the best teams in a new 2nd tier divisision slotted between D1 and D2.