ACC commissioner John Swofford held a Sunday morning teleconference to announce the addition of the Syracuse Orange and Pittsburgh Panthers. It was a pretty standard teleconference, with a lot of boring stuff happening. But along the way, he dropped a pair of bombs.
When asked about the Texas Longhorns and the rumored mutual interest between the two, Swofford complimented the school but said he couldn't comment. Later, he called the ACC's revenue sharing arrangement "sacred," which would seem to rule out the onboarding of Texas and its Longhorn Network if true.
Then, Swofford admitted the ACC's basketball tournament could move to Madison Square Garden on a rotational basis. Which, whoa! Moving the conference's most prized event out of North Carolina would be a dramatic shift and signal that it thinks of itself as the east coast's conference, not just the other southeastern conference. Can't imagine Tobacco Road is very happy about hearing that, though.
For more on all this, check out Texas blog Burnt Orange Nation, Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and Pitt blog Cardiac Hill.
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Stay in the Big 12, Texas
It has been very good to you. Anywasy, you are not even near any of the school in the ACC. It would be more disadvantageous for you also because the conference is so stacked basketball wise. Being in the same conference as Duke, UNC, Clemson, Wake Forest, Maryland, UVA, ang Georgia tech will not help you in top 25 ranklings either.
by Jeffrey Thompson on Sep 18, 2011 10:55 AM EDT reply actions
Go independent texas
The big 12 deserves better than UT
by fracas on Sep 18, 2011 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Go to hell, Texas
Isn’t the Pac-16 really the only logical option here?
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Sep 18, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
wait
TLN doesn’t conflict with the ACC or SEC’s revenue sharing. Neither conference has any rules that would prevent schools from starting a network for their tier 3 rights. I dont see Texas going, but the revenue thing has nothing to do with it. I’ll admit, I haven’t read the fine print, but I thought this was the whole reason the ACC talk started to begin with.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 18, 2011 11:24 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Acc modus
Is to declare the deal only once it is done. Thus talks of Texas and acc is likely wishful thinking, or a bluff, by UT.
by fracas on Sep 18, 2011 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions
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