(10-18-2021 12:22 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 10:11 AM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(10-16-2021 01:16 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  

(10-15-2021 01:34 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(10-15-2021 10:51 AM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  IMO, Duke loves high-level college athletics. Duke basketball is a monster on social media; Coach K and Jon Scheyer have mastered the one-and-done era; and Duke athletics supports the overall university brand. NIL and payments to student athletes should be manageable hurdles to Duke. The issue is how to hold Duke accountable to continually invest in football. Both Northwestern and Stanford have put resources into football…so Duke’s peers have already paved a good path. Duke will be fine in the ACC, B1G or SEC…they just prefer to stay close to UNC because it helps multiply their brand value.

On the other hand, there are a number of small private ACC schools with limited athletic budgets. ACC football spending will need to increase further and it’s the smaller privates (e.g., Wake, BC and Syracuse) that will struggle finding sufficient boosters/resources. In the current divisional set-up, these low revenue schools are currently joined to the high revenue schools (e.g., FSU, Louisville and Clemson). Maybe going to division-less football will be the first step in helping the ACC transition to more natural divisions in football.

Good points!

One comment: I wouldn't include Syracuse in the "small" private schools. They have more students than Notre Dame or Miami, and nearly as many as UVa!

You’re right. I’ve been to Syracuse a few times (mainly watching basketball)…the university is beautiful, and pretty large. I must have been projecting because Orange football has struggled in the ACC (except for one great season). Football games against Clemson should have better attendance.

SU has struggled since 2001 and has been consistently mediocre to bad. But as the Phog fan alluded to, Syracuse University has a football tradition that is second to none in the ACC. It has over 22,000 students and one of the top 4-6 athletic revenues in the ACC, which fluctuates on a yearly basis. The Dome seats about 50,000. The team had just under 37,000 for the Clemson game. In normal years the game would have been sold out. But hopefully, folks are wise enough to understand that this year is still not normal, since we are still struggling to control a pandemic.

Tennessee had 102,700+ in their sellout game this weekend against Ole Miss. It was their first sellout in several years.
Politically imposed restrictions have affected the gatherings of large crowds in some parts of the country.

Very true, although Im not sure if its just because of restrictions or some folks just being cautious. Although I and my whole family are fully vaccinated, Im just not going to be around so many people just yet. I was excited back in June of going to a couple of games since I had not been to a game since 2018, but then the numbers spiked up again. I spent a month down in Florida over the summer and it started getting really bad the week before I came back to NY. In Sarasota, I lost 2 relatives within 9 days of each other back in August. I Lost another close cousin back in December. I just learned last night that my grandson's, other grandfather died yesterday in Winter Haven. All these folks died of covid. From what I hear, there are a lot of folks who lost alot more relatives to covid. I would consider myself to be fortunate, except, its not over yet.