Comments on: The ACC: Five years after expansion

By: Country

Country — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:27:37 +0000

The Big Easy has become diluted and they are worse but they are benefiting from a media perspective. The OSU-Cincinnati at home should have been a given- beating a rock bottom, injury ridden team at home, but the expectations were that simply beating any PAC 10 team makes you respectable. PAC 10 hype gone insane.

Same thing with South Florida beating Auburn, another consistently overrated SEC team at Auburn. Auburn should never have been No. 17 at the time- pure SEC hype gone wild. This was worse for the SEC because it showed a top heavy conference that sane people know it is.

When Oregon without its starting QB, RB and top WR beat the living $hit out of a healthy South Florida (despite a 56 to 21 it wasn’t even that close) in what was practically a South Florida home game it was clear that the Big East was still far worse than a strong PAC 10 team even if it was far better than a over-hyped SEC mid level team (Auburn).

The ACC has used the SEC marketing plan- padding winnings for their mediocre teams, signing up bowl games, setting up a championship game. The final stage will be using Big East marketing- scheduling games with low level and down on their luck teams in the SEC and PAC 10. I doubt the SEC or most of the PAC 10 want to take the risk but that would finalize their arrival as a power conference.

(Btw, as an SEC team fan I’ll admit that the PAC 10 is the fastest conference and at least just as good top to bottom but I think we are the most physical conference with more top teams. I’d love to see playoffs with Oregon, Cal, USC, LSU, Georgia, Tenn and maybe ASU and Florida. I think every team there could beat Ohio State.)

By: gatorhippy

gatorhippy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:25:58 +0000

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To join the ACC…

By: patrickdonohue

patrickdonohue — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:23:53 +0000

You are right about BC, they don’t have anywhere near the home field advantage that they should have and will not be anywhere near as good as they were last year now that Matt Ryan is in the NFL. I’d look for a 7 or 8 win season out of the Eagles.

By: patrickdonohue

patrickdonohue — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:22:44 +0000

Johnny, I think there is a point to be made about the Big East scheduling respectable out of conference opponents but I don’t think, aside from USF’s trip to Auburn last year, that you can make a substantial case on that. Cincinnati beating up on a pretty mediocre Oregon State team at home and a Louisville game from two years isn’t exactly compelling. The Big East will have to continue to schedule non-conference monsters (i.e., Auburn and Oklahoma) if it intends to be a respectable football conference.

By: Blade Jr. #5

Blade Jr. #5 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:43:17 +0000

And sure… the ACC hasn’t been the conference that it once was, but one could credit that to things being shaken up with the addition of three tough teams from a once tough conference in VT, Miami, and BC. So in essence, the weaklings or stragglers that once roamed around in the ACC and would beat up on the likes of Duke and Wake Forest, yet would consistently finish in the top 5 in the ACC behind the likes of Florida State and Clemson/Georgia Tech/N.C. State depending on what year it was, are finally being exposed for their flaws and weaknesses by the new 3. The ACC as a whole is just suffering from a couple of down years. We’ll be back soon enough! But I would love to see WVU and Rutgers try and make it through the ACC like they do in the post-2005 Big East.