Checking the ACC's pulse and Syracuse's role in the league going forward with Andrew Carter of N&O

[@brianlapis5917]

Andrew is great! I love this erudite view of "College Sports Inc."

[@44032]

First, great shirt Bent. It looks like an X-ray. I call what is going on the college football rapture, where the most successful football schools and the ones located in the biggest TV markets want to 'leave behind' the schools they been saddled playing against and share the big bucks with to create a sort of mini-NFL and just split the money up for themselves. The problem is, the big markets are dominated by pro sports and the football factories are used to going 10-2 in a bad years. Now a bad year might be 4-8 or worse. The lifeblood of college sports is that it represents the smaller markets with no pro sports and untied them and it takes advantage of natural geographical rivalries. The 'left behind' schools might be able o re-create that and play in conferences they could actually win for a national championship they could actually win. the 'left behind' might prosper while the 'raptured' might struggle. And the other sports would be in conferences that make more sense for them, (why does each team from a school have to be in the same conference, anyway?). And the northeast might have a conference representing them again.

[@CUSE315SYR]

Syracuse should join big10

[@timotundy]

I don’t think the BIG will take us

[@CUSE315SYR]

We’re better than half that conference

[@Doc_Boots]

Even if Clemson or FSU win the national championship and get the maximum bonus, they still make less than Vandy or Rutgers…….

[@timotundy]

I’d actually want a chance to win a national title every year than be a middling program in the elite two conferences. But, I’m a Syracuse fan, so I guess I’m not used to the kind of success felt by Clemson and FSU FANS.