With the college football world constantly changing, Mike Asti and Mike Vukovcan get Mike’d Up to debate if the ACC’s latest news of scrapping the division format is good or bad for the future of the Pitt football program.
How will it impact Pitt’s ability to play in conference championship games? Is there a chance it could actually help ignite new rivalries or give life to old ones? Should it change how Pitt thinks about scheduling out of conference opponents moving forward?
Playing quality non-conference games is exciting to watch versus drumming Rhode-Island, Maine, Umass, Albany, Villanova and New Hampshire. The Notre Dame, WVU, UCF, Tennessee, Cincinnati, PSU match ups make for better fanfare Win or Lose. Even the W.Michigan and other MAC games are better viewership than slapping Youngstown State and Austin Peay around just to add a W. Leave Marshall to play WVU. Keep getting a game against another P5 out of conference, and then a foe from MAC and AAC. Then if you can land WVU, Notre Dame, or PSU each year that makes 12. Any game against an… Read more »
This is a tired old argument. We left the Big East and JoePa behind years ago. I don’t want anything to do with the Hoopies or the Niters. We are and will continue to be in the ACC. Live with it.
And with respect to playing powder puff preseason games when Alabama ills the plug then …
It might not matter. USC and UCLA going to the BigTen is a huge move and makes it closer to just two super conferences in the playoffs and other conferences playing for the JV trophy. The revenue from these two conferences dwarves the ACC, wild times are here in college athletics.
Playing quality non-conference games is exciting to watch versus drumming Rhode-Island, Maine, Umass, Albany, Villanova and New Hampshire. The Notre Dame, WVU, UCF, Tennessee, Cincinnati, PSU match ups make for better fanfare Win or Lose. Even the W.Michigan and other MAC games are better viewership than slapping Youngstown State and Austin Peay around just to add a W. Leave Marshall to play WVU. Keep getting a game against another P5 out of conference, and then a foe from MAC and AAC. Then if you can land WVU, Notre Dame, or PSU each year that makes 12. Any game against an… Read more »
This is a tired old argument. We left the Big East and JoePa behind years ago. I don’t want anything to do with the Hoopies or the Niters. We are and will continue to be in the ACC. Live with it.
And with respect to playing powder puff preseason games when Alabama ills the plug then …
Penn State was never in the Big East and are you comparing us to Alabama?
Attendance figures do not support your position.
It might not matter. USC and UCLA going to the BigTen is a huge move and makes it closer to just two super conferences in the playoffs and other conferences playing for the JV trophy. The revenue from these two conferences dwarves the ACC, wild times are here in college athletics.
Go jump off a bridge please. Plenty to choose from.
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