Syracuse was welcomed, along with Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, into the Atlantic Coast Conference on Monday at a press conference at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Times Square. We caught up with Don McPherson in an exclusive interview to get his take on Syracuse’s move to the ACC.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was at the Nasdaq Stock Market in New York on Tuesday as the Orange officially joined the ACC. Here’s what the coach had to say on realignment.
Could Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame officially joining the ACC on Monday have created the best basketball conference in history? It’s members, new and old, seem to think so.
As the clock struck midnight in the Eastern Time Zone this Monday, neatly coinciding with the date July 1, 2013, the excitement of the reality of Syracuse adding to its vast athletic history has arrived.
None-the-less, following an out-of-the-blue call from ACC commissioner John Swofford to Nancy Cantor coming several months after a fractured Big East vote defeated a new TV contract with ESPN in May 2011, here we are saying farewell to the folks in Providence this week and hello, Greensboro.
The ACC released its 2013 bowl schedule on Monday morning. The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is a conditional bowl that is slated to be with the Pac-12 or BYU. If they aren’t able to play in this game, then the ACC could send an available bowl-eligible team.
Just like that, we thought watching the scene, 34 years in the Big East, 31 years of tournament games at Madison Square Garden was officially over, and we’ve been part, in some way shape or form, of everyone one of them, but it’s ended.
It’s never made sense to us for so many important Big East games against top teams over the years coming on such short notice, and they don’t schedule that way in the ACC.