Atlantic League; forget Big 12 or ACC or $20M buyout, be BEST like the 90s
New Atlantic League:
FSU, Miami, Georgia Tech, Duke, UNC, UVA, Maryland, Syracuse, Penn State, UConn
Best in athletics, academics, exposure, revenue, could make their own network like Big Ten Network to show the best mens and womens basketball, football, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, field hockey, etc., in the nation, to half the US population and more than half the media and money, dominating forever.
The schools need more money, but FSU paying $20M to make maybe $3M/year and increase travel time and costs, kill rivalries, scheduling, etc., in a worse academic and athletic conference isn't worth it, things would just get worse.
Let's face if, FSU was the best in the nation in the 90s when they joined ACC and won 2 national titles, ACC had 9 teams and FSU was the only football power. Things went downhill when VT, Miami, and BC, joined, in basketball, football, overall sports, money, academics, scheduling, rivalries, everything! And now the ACC is dead last and chaos reigns nationwide. It's ideal to be best in basketball and other sports to prepare for NCAA tourneys, but football is the exception where it's best just to be a BCS conference but NOT the toughest. Big 10's won 1.5 titles in 44 years! FSU and Miami were great in football before 12 team ACC, VT played for a national title, Penn State's last great year was 94 right around when they joined Big 10. If FSU prefers, BC can be added instead of Miami to ensure FSU's dominance.
PAC 12 has the best TV contract in nation and they suck at football with just one traditional power unranked last year, and zero ranked basketball teams recently, they do dominate the entire coast though and are great in overall sports and academics. Big Ten Network gives B10/11/12 most money per school overall showing curling to poor dumb socialists freezing in decaying rusted ruins and empty cornfields full of $5000 houses that anyone with any sense or money left long ago. Atlantic League Network and A League with half the US population and more than half the media and money, best at all sports and academics, would double or triple all those contracts to triple or quadruple the A League school's revenue.
NCSU wants out from the shadow of Duke and UNC at least twice as much as Texas A&M wanted to leave Texas. Clemson just like South Carolina and 7-9 other schools wants to get away from the dominance of the NC schools, corrupt Chapel Hill refs, and John "Clemson deserves the death penalty but UNC is squeaky clean" Swofford who makes sure to hire NC born and bred and grad and resident refs who make sure UNC gets the most FTs every year even when dead last of 12. BC has been dominated in all sports except ice hockey because nobody else in ACC plays it, instead of bringing in New England or MA or Boston or even Chestnut Hill for the ACC, BC has become like Emerson or Northeastern, completely irrelevant. Wake wants to compete instead of be dominated and historically second worst in football history, and wants to be the academic leader of a stable league like Vandy, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, instead of going downhill in usnews rankings while watching Vandy which was similarly ranked a decade ago shoot to the top with a great 13% acceptance rate right behind Duke's 12%. VT has been dominated in all sports except football and even there wants to play for a national title like in 99.
All 12 or the other 7 majority schools should vote to dissolve the ACC instead of paying a dime in exit fees, to triple its revenue per school and be the best in the nation forever with Penn State, Syracuse, and UConn. Penn State fans hate abandoning their eastern rivals and recruiting region being 11th in midwestern Big 10/11/12, they never played any B10 schools before joining only playing schools in the new Atlantic League. Paterno tried to form an eastern allsports league before being turned down by BOTH the ACC and Big East and joining B10 as last desperate option which hurt them. UNC has benefitted from ACC being in and around one state and ACC tourneys in all sports usually being in NC, since ACC MBB tourney has been in NC 48 of 59 years and been won by NC schools 50 of 59 years because the best players and coaches wanted the unfair advantage and fan support and other schools stopped caring. First 22 ACC MBB tourneys were in NC and 21 were won by NC teams, first time it moved was to DC where nearby UVA won its only title ever. Reason is UNC and NCSU fans buy tix from fans of losing teams so could have 5/9 of the fans even for their first round game and 8/9 for the title game, this goes for every sport. Rest of ACC can force fairness and change however, offer UNC the 10th spot telling them either Clemson or BC or NCSU will get it otherwise and UNC would be forced to be the redheaded outlier in a worse league with zero rivals like Big East and kill all their sports and academics. Swofford resigns, Bobby Bowden can be A League commissioner. Atlantic League tourneys in all sports can move between NYC, DC, maybe NC, Atlanta, FL, every year. This is for the best for all involved.
5 ACC and 6 Big East football schools would add Memphis to make 12. 2 Big East divisions balanced in both football and basketball:
Big East South: South Florida, Clemson, NCSU, Memphis, Wake, VT
Big East North: Louisville, Cincinnati, WVU, Pitt, Rutgers, BC
8 former Big East basketball schools are all catholic: Depaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, Villanova, Notre Dame (could replace ND if poached by Big 10 with St Louis if needed)
Big 10: should go back to original 10, or replace PSU with Notre Dame and rename itself Big 12
Big 12: should go back to 12, or rename itself Big 10
PAC 10: should go back to 10, or stay at PAC 12
New Atlantic League:
FSU, Miami, Georgia Tech, Duke, UNC, UVA, Maryland, Syracuse, Penn State, UConn
Best in athletics, academics, exposure, revenue, could make their own network like Big Ten Network to show the best mens and womens basketball, football, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, field hockey, etc., in the nation, to half the US population and more than half the media and money, dominating forever.
The schools need more money, but FSU paying $20M to make maybe $3M/year and increase travel time and costs, kill rivalries, scheduling, etc., in a worse academic and athletic conference isn't worth it, things would just get worse.
Let's face if, FSU was the best in the nation in the 90s when they joined ACC and won 2 national titles, ACC had 9 teams and FSU was the only football power. Things went downhill when VT, Miami, and BC, joined, in basketball, football, overall sports, money, academics, scheduling, rivalries, everything! And now the ACC is dead last and chaos reigns nationwide. It's ideal to be best in basketball and other sports to prepare for NCAA tourneys, but football is the exception where it's best just to be a BCS conference but NOT the toughest. Big 10's won 1.5 titles in 44 years! FSU and Miami were great in football before 12 team ACC, VT played for a national title, Penn State's last great year was 94 right around when they joined Big 10. If FSU prefers, BC can be added instead of Miami to ensure FSU's dominance.
PAC 12 has the best TV contract in nation and they suck at football with just one traditional power unranked last year, and zero ranked basketball teams recently, they do dominate the entire coast though and are great in overall sports and academics. Big Ten Network gives B10/11/12 most money per school overall showing curling to poor dumb socialists freezing in decaying rusted ruins and empty cornfields full of $5000 houses that anyone with any sense or money left long ago. Atlantic League Network and A League with half the US population and more than half the media and money, best at all sports and academics, would double or triple all those contracts to triple or quadruple the A League school's revenue.
NCSU wants out from the shadow of Duke and UNC at least twice as much as Texas A&M wanted to leave Texas. Clemson just like South Carolina and 7-9 other schools wants to get away from the dominance of the NC schools, corrupt Chapel Hill refs, and John "Clemson deserves the death penalty but UNC is squeaky clean" Swofford who makes sure to hire NC born and bred and grad and resident refs who make sure UNC gets the most FTs every year even when dead last of 12. BC has been dominated in all sports except ice hockey because nobody else in ACC plays it, instead of bringing in New England or MA or Boston or even Chestnut Hill for the ACC, BC has become like Emerson or Northeastern, completely irrelevant. Wake wants to compete instead of be dominated and historically second worst in football history, and wants to be the academic leader of a stable league like Vandy, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, instead of going downhill in usnews rankings while watching Vandy which was similarly ranked a decade ago shoot to the top with a great 13% acceptance rate right behind Duke's 12%. VT has been dominated in all sports except football and even there wants to play for a national title like in 99.
All 12 or the other 7 majority schools should vote to dissolve the ACC instead of paying a dime in exit fees, to triple its revenue per school and be the best in the nation forever with Penn State, Syracuse, and UConn. Penn State fans hate abandoning their eastern rivals and recruiting region being 11th in midwestern Big 10/11/12, they never played any B10 schools before joining only playing schools in the new Atlantic League. Paterno tried to form an eastern allsports league before being turned down by BOTH the ACC and Big East and joining B10 as last desperate option which hurt them. UNC has benefitted from ACC being in and around one state and ACC tourneys in all sports usually being in NC, since ACC MBB tourney has been in NC 48 of 59 years and been won by NC schools 50 of 59 years because the best players and coaches wanted the unfair advantage and fan support and other schools stopped caring. First 22 ACC MBB tourneys were in NC and 21 were won by NC teams, first time it moved was to DC where nearby UVA won its only title ever. Reason is UNC and NCSU fans buy tix from fans of losing teams so could have 5/9 of the fans even for their first round game and 8/9 for the title game, this goes for every sport. Rest of ACC can force fairness and change however, offer UNC the 10th spot telling them either Clemson or BC or NCSU will get it otherwise and UNC would be forced to be the redheaded outlier in a worse league with zero rivals like Big East and kill all their sports and academics. Swofford resigns, Bobby Bowden can be A League commissioner. Atlantic League tourneys in all sports can move between NYC, DC, maybe NC, Atlanta, FL, every year. This is for the best for all involved.
5 ACC and 6 Big East football schools would add Memphis to make 12. 2 Big East divisions balanced in both football and basketball:
Big East South: South Florida, Clemson, NCSU, Memphis, Wake, VT
Big East North: Louisville, Cincinnati, WVU, Pitt, Rutgers, BC
8 former Big East basketball schools are all catholic: Depaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, Villanova, Notre Dame (could replace ND if poached by Big 10 with St Louis if needed)
Big 10: should go back to original 10, or replace PSU with Notre Dame and rename itself Big 12
Big 12: should go back to 12, or rename itself Big 10
PAC 10: should go back to 10, or stay at PAC 12
