Quote:Jim Boeheim is a self-described "status quo guy," so it stands to reason that the Syracuse basketball coach is less than thrilled about a possible move from the Big East Conference to the ACC.

"I don't like change too much," Boeheim said Wednesday. "I think this change could be bad. What we have is pretty good. What's going to happen in the next couple of weeks will probably change the landscape of Eastern seaboard football and basketball radically."

Even with a national championship in his hip pocket, Boeheim knows that football is the dynamic driving this potential move of three Big East schools -- Miami, Syracuse and Boston College or Virginia Tech -- to the ACC.

"It's about money, power and football in any order," he said. "It's football. It's always football. Football drives everything.

"I don't see Miami and Syracuse benefiting that much by going. But if Miami goes and we don't, that's a major problem. Miami is the No. 1 football program in the country. Miami is in the driver's seat and always has been. We're making another decision based on football."

Boeheim's concern was that Syracuse would be locked into a basketball division with schools like Clemson, Georgia Tech and Florida State.

"We'd be playing at Florida State on a Monday, back to Syracuse for Thursday, back to Georgia Tech for Saturday," he said. "You can't win with that kind of travel schedule.

"If we're in a basketball conference playing teams in the deep South, I don't see how that is an advantage to us in the short term or the long term. Where do they play the tournament every year? North Carolina."

Boeheim would rather be playing traditional rivals like Georgetown, Villanova and St. John's, who would be left behind in the Big East.

"I've been in Syracuse all my life," he said. "We played those schools and Pitt and West Virginia before the Big East. It's what I've done for 41 years. Now to change, it makes no sense to me," he said.

"I am the basketball coach. They have to decide what's best for the university. I hope they hold off for about five years. Then I can watch somebody else go through it."

<a href='http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/acc/invision/index.php?s=5e3f21b20fc400d5b7810b7361590d82&act=Post&CODE=00&f=17' target='_blank'>http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/acc/invision...st&CODE=00&f=17</a>

:rolleyes: Thats why you have two divisions. Plus, after winning the N'Championshio out of the Big Easy, why go to the best baketball conference? He has a point you know