(03-10-2017 09:20 AM)Meathead Wrote:  

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(03-08-2017 08:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...greensboro

Quote:Suffice it to say Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is not a big fan of Greensboro, North Carolina, the traditional site of the ACC tournament.

Given a soft-toss question after his team's loss to Miami about playing in his home state of New York, Boeheim instead used the opportunity to riff on why the league should not play its future tourneys in Greensboro -- as in ever.

"There's no reason to play in Greensboro,'' he said Wednesday. "The only reason they play there is because the league offices are there, it's always been there and there are like 150 people who like to have meetings. It should not be there.''

Quote:Boeheim -- whose team used to participate in the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden -- argued that the value of playing in bigger markets is far greater than keeping up with the same old, same old.
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"The media centers, the recruiting centers are Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York,'' he said. "How many good players are in Greensboro? New York made the Big East.''

The city of Greensboro, replying to a tweet about Boeheim's comments, took a pointed, yet lighthearted approach, tweeting that Syracuse "can lose in the first round anywhere."

Missing from the quoted tweet from Greensboro is this:

Quote:At least it's a quick ride home.

Well this year two top 10 national recruits, freshmen Harry Giles and Bam Adebayo played in High Point (abuts Greensboro).

This season, 111 players from New York City are on Division 1 rosters. That is tops in the country from one city. That isn't including places right around NYC like in the suburbs or across the river in NJ.

22 players from Greensboro are on D1 rosters.

Your point about players from NYC isn't as impressive as you think. NYC has 30 times the population of Greensboro, but only 5 times the D1 players, that seems like a win for Greensboro.

I totally agree that MSG is where you want to be, but Brooklyn is not. Rotating the tournament among 3 or 4 cities is great for recruiting and is the right thing to do with such a large conference footprint, but you have to bring it home to Greensboro every 2-3 years.

1) I agree that there should be a rotation, and I agree that MSG >>>>> Brooklyn

2) But I disagree about the per capita part. If per capita players was the factor, we should hold the tourney in the #1 recruit's bedroom every year.

"He shoots ... and ... is .... BLOCKED by the bedpost!"