I talked to the ACC and they said they will take all of your ideas into consideration. Thanks for your hard work.

2/18/2012 11:59:44 AM

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"Make a deal with Southern Conference that our bottom 2 teams get relegated to that league for the next season and keep tourney like it is."

Don't you go soccering up my basketball!!!!

/It's bad enough already with Duke's flopping.

[Edited on February 18, 2012 at 1:47 PM. Reason : .]

2/18/2012 1:47:22 PM

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"Radio stations campaign to 'Save the Rivalry' Feb 21, 2012 7:22 a.m. The addition of Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the Atlantic Coast Conference means scheduling changes and could spell the end of some long-preserved rivalries. The University of North Carolina and North Carolina State have met on the basketball court twice per year every year since 1920 - that 92-year home-and-home series will no longer be guaranteed under the league's new scheduling model. Capitol Broadcasting's 99.9FM The Fan ESPN Radio and 620AM The Buzz have combined forces to bring attention to the loss of such a big rivalry game. "We get that college sports is big business but there's certain things you should not mess with, and the traditions of Tobacco Road are about as high as you can get," said Operations Manager and Program Director Jason Dixon. "We're doing our best to draw attention to what we feel isn't right." Once Pitt and Syracuse join the league in the 2012-13 season, the basketball schedule will consist of 18 conference games, using a "partner" model to guarantee certain annual home-and-home series' - UNC and NC State will not be partners. Team's schedules will rotate through the other 12 schools in four-team packs for home-and-home series' every three years. North Carolina will partner with Duke, so that rivalry - which also dates back to 1920 - will stay intact. The Wolfpack will be partnered with Wake Forest, which means that UNC and NC State will only be guaranteed to play each other once a year. The radio stations have launched a facebook campaign on SaveTheRivalry.com requesting fans in favor of preserving the rivalry to 'like' their page and leave comments about the change in schedule. "Frankly, we think it's kind of ridiculous that the ACC is taking away two games that helped build the league in the first place," 99.9 The Fan's Joe Ovies said in an interview with WRAL News Tuesday. "It's not what it once was, but it still gets people going, especially in this area." Fans can also interact with the twitter account @stateuncrivalry and use the hashtag #savetherivalry when discussing the change. NC State and UNC will play the second game of the 2011-12 season Tuesday night at the RBC Center with an 8 p.m. tip-off. The game can be seen live on WRAL-TV."

2/21/2012 7:37:03 AM

^https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheRivalryACC

2/21/2012 8:27:20 AM

This will change nothing.

2/21/2012 8:28:39 AM

I dont know if this has been mentioned yet itt. Why don't they just split the divisions geographically?
so you end up with the north division having:
BC, Pitt, Syracuse, Maryland, UVA, VT, Wake

South ending up with:
State, Duke, Carolina, Clemson, GT, FSU, Miami

seems more logical and it would cut down on schools travel expenses.

2/27/2012 3:09:49 PM

this is so embarrassing, we're begging the acc to let us get laughed at by unc twice every year. and i mean that literally. they literally sit on the bench and laugh at us every time we play them.

2/27/2012 3:11:36 PM

That save the rivalry crap is just a ploy for WRAL to get more ratings and website hits...dont fall for it.

2/27/2012 8:27:43 PM

^There's not a way to see the local Raycom ratings for basketball games is there?

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 8:31 PM. Reason : I was mainly curious how UNC-Duke did on ACCN vs. ESPN, but State/UNC ratings would be interesting t]

2/27/2012 8:31:16 PM

I think WRAL want to keep it because they will lose a a week of radio coverage, news (tv), internet. twice a year and gain nothing.

that equals lost ratings. I say lets expand go to pods and get it over with.

2/27/2012 8:59:16 PM

I've been advocating for redoing divisions to north and south since they decided to add pitt and syracuse. This would help keep the old big east rivalries intact and most of the ACC ones as well. As you said it would have the added benefit of cutting down on travel times and expenses and fans will make reasonable trips to say GT or Clemson. Very few visiting fans are gonna roll up to Pitt or Syracuse though.

2/28/2012 8:56:54 AM

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"I've been advocating for ..."

normally when people say this they mean like, suggesting it to someone who has authority, or something.

2/28/2012 12:04:24 PM

Who says I haven't suggested it to anyone important?

Unfortunately I am not important so that doesn't mean they will listen. I still think it would be a smart move though.

2/28/2012 12:20:17 PM

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/16/3245517/acc-to-include-all-14-teams-in.html

11v14 and 12v13 on Wednesday, winners play 6 and 5 seed on Thursday

basically semloh > titans78

5/16/2012 10:35:56 PM

5/18/2012 6:59:36 PM

Damn the ACC is done, do we bolt to the SEC now?

5/18/2012 10:03:30 PM

Shut up.

5/19/2012 8:43:04 AM

I guess this goes here. Here's an article from Luke Winn about how realignment would have effected basketball if the changes were put into effect a decade ago: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/luke_winn/05/22/conference.rankings/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_wr_a4

I don't think it's anything we didn't already know.

5/23/2012 8:15:19 AM

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"Fine Florida State, you wanna get nuts? LET'S GET NUTS FSU and Miami/Clemson (and Louisville and Cincinatti) to Big XII NC State and VPI to SEC MD (and Rutgers) to B1G 10 ND, UConn, South Florida to ACC "

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If and when FSU and a partner bolt to the Big XII, the ACC won't be a viable football conference anymore (unless we get ND, which they're a better fit in the Big XII or B1G 10 anyhow). Since expansion is already screwing us over in basketball (don't play Duke twice a year, won't be playing unc twice a year), and this whole thing is about football money, might as well bolt to the SEC. Set up a rivalry game with the holes in football like GT, FSU, and Clemson do with their SEC rivals. Schedule them as an OOC basketball game. Call it a day. We're always going to be a mid-tier football team anyhow (like Kentucky and Vandy) with more interest in basketball, so let's just hope we can beat the Mississippi teams and the Kentuckys and the Vandys with a cupcake OOC and get our 6-6 or 7-5 bowl. It's not like we do much better in the ACC against the likes of BC and Wake. Plus we're always good for a WTF upset so instead of it being FSU or Clemson, let it be against Bama or LSU for a change. Now won't that be fun?

5/23/2012 9:37:54 AM

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"for basketball. It is such crap that we don't play Duke twice a year anymore. Don't get me wrong, for football it is great and vaulted the ACC to the top of the BCS conferences."

2006 fail.

5/23/2012 9:52:11 AM

FSU is not leaving the ACC to join the Big 12. It makes no sense other than straight TV money. FSU to the SEC is the only logical exit strategy if they truly plan to leave the ACC.



[Edited on May 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM. Reason : b]

5/23/2012 10:26:28 AM

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"I dont know if this has been mentioned yet itt. Why don't they just split the divisions geographically? so you end up with the north division having: BC, Pitt, Syracuse, Maryland, UVA, VT, Wake South ending up with: State, Duke, Carolina, Clemson, GT, FSU, Miami seems more logical and it would cut down on schools travel expenses."

I would swap out Wake and Miami. Miami is taking flights everywhere anyway, and is full of northerners

5/23/2012 11:32:06 AM

Anyone know what's up with all this and the ACC and how it looks

thoughts on the cali schools

and what's the ESPN/Fox angle

[Edited on March 20, 2024 at 10:12 AM. Reason : and]

3/20/2024 10:08:02 AM

https://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=592805

3/20/2024 10:31:55 AM

Thanks. I'm dumb, read all the title names to check if the topic was being discussed and somehow still missed that one

3/20/2024 2:21:45 PM

Yea it's not obvious, no worries having two threads obviously either but some of your questions are already discussed there

3/20/2024 2:26:09 PM