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Pitt/’Cuse make the mediocre slightly mediocre-er

The obvious news from Monday is that Syracuse and Pittsburgh both left the Big East for the ACC. Everyone knows this was a money move, since super conferences are coming, but there’s no way this move really makes the ACC any better in football. The Orange are still a doormat and Pitt just had Dave Wannstedt as its coach for the last several years. It’s debatable if the Chicago Bears have every fully recovered from the same thing.

It’s almost like the ACC just wants to be a super conference just to be a super conference. Like all those people at Wal-Mart you see who were wearing John Cena shirts until June and then switched to CM Punk but they can’t exactly explain why. That doesn’t happen to you? Huh.

This does, however, make the ACC even more of a juggernaut in basketball. Basically, ESPN is going to turn into the ACC Network from November to early March and there’s nothing the other conferences can do about it. And while Coach K thinks it’s a “coup” now for the conference, he’s going to feel differently when he’s snowed in at Syracuse’s airport in late February after a bad loss. Or when Syracuse fans suddenly realize they have to fly to freaking North Carolina to watch the conference tournament at the end of the season instead of just driving to Madison Square Garden like always.

The Butterfly Effect

Two football-playing schools leaving the Big East leaves kind of a huge motherf-ing hole in that conference, meaning they need to get two replacements really, really quickly. Notre Dame is an obvious target since they’re already in the Big East for everything else. But who the hell else would jump on that sinking ship? TCU is already secretly wishing it was dead so it wouldn’t have to be seen in the hallways with the college football equivalent of the AV Club.

O hai, Big XII remnants.

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