Pitt will be our primary bball partner
by tgrote on Feb 3, 2012 11:57 AM EST
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http://www.theacc.com/genrel/020312aaa.html
Pretty interesting development. Cuse will be in our football division, Pitt going to the Coastal. So we will not have Pitt as a football rival, something I was hoping for. But what makes that more interesting is that there will only be one "primary" partner for basketball, the school we are guaranteed to play home and home. Duke and UVA will no longer be guaranteed twice a year...I'm sure this will cause some people to be pretty upset. My other question is why try to make Pitt our basketball rival if you aren't going to put them in our football division as well? Swofford strikes again
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I love it
This definitely helps recruiting the local area, especially Baltimore area kids. You now have ravens – steelers, capitals – penguins, MD bball – Pitt bball.
I agree with you I wish we’d of gotten them in Football as well, but I’ll take the help when I see it
Losing a home and home with Duke sucks
but picking up Pitt is a lot better than getting paired with say…NC State. Pitt is a basketball power in the big east over the past 10 years, and a natural rival to pro sports teams in MD. Therefore, I think it helps immensely with keeping the local talent here because you can try to play on the pro sports ties as well.
And we don’t lose playing Duke every year, we get a home and home once every 3, a home once every 3, and an away. So we’ll go home and home one year, home one year, away one year. So we lose a Duke game once every three years, not as terrible as your making it out to be.
Still playing Duke at Comcast 2 out of every 3 years?
Could be a lot worse….
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that would be ideal
our Duke away year coinciding with our home year for UNC, or our home and home with UNC.
are they really selling kids on that?
or just the fact you are playing in the ACC against UNC, Duke, etc.
by bloodwatermission on Feb 3, 2012 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, this is really good for bball imo
We can actually develop a true rivalry with Pitt. Duke always cared way more about UNC and while UVA didn’t like us, their natural rival is VaTech. Pitt will come to hate us as much as I already can’t stand them.
and lets go to Bentleys...
by johnnyrobs13 on Feb 3, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
Duke and UNC
The biggest thing that this does is affect Duke and UNC. It means we will see them twice only every 3 years. So we will have a home game with Duke and UNC every 2/3 years.
I would say with Boeheim 'close' to retirement
That Cuse is more likely to tail off much sooner than Pitt.
Duke, unc, Pitt, cuse
Well get Pitt twice every year and at least one game against the others. We can assume that well get a home game versus the other three 2 out of 3 years! Worst case scenario we get 2 big home games a year, which we aren’t guaranteed now. I’m not sure who is in each 4 team group…. Does the link show it? I assume unc and duke are in separate groups as is cuse?
by rquidas on Feb 3, 2012 1:12 PM EST via Android app reply actions
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I really don’t see the point. The idea, I suppose, is to create rivalries and that rivalries are good for the conference. While they may be good for the conference, rivalries cannot be manufactured; they arise naturally, if at all. I don’t think its possible to decide now which teams will choose one another as rivals in the future.
With each round of expansion and more teams in the yearly mix, the "rivalry" games on the conference schedule don’t stand out quite as much. For me at least, it’s more of year-to-year phenomenon, with different opponents seeming more significant to me for any number of reasons from one year to the next.
Whatever someone might think of Pitt, to me it seems sort of strange to say they are Maryland’s future basketball rival.
that said, home games against the likes of Duke, UNC and now Pitt are obviously good for the program; they sell out, Comcast Center is packed and fans are energized; the games are usually national televised and receive extensive media coverage, etc.
I see.
So this means our horrible student fans won’t even care about building ‘loyalty points’ one out of every three years.
Miami is actually a lot worse
For perspective, the Dukies only need 3,500 to have a “packed house”. Terps get 10,000 & it seems like nobody came.
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Duke students can't even fill 50% of their student section
http://deadspin.com/5878886/the-great-duke-attendance-scam
Don’t think MD student attendance has dipped below 1000 per game, and I estimate about 2000 average. 4000 attended for Illinois, Duke, V Tech.
The Raleigh newspaper said today that Duke has only averaged 700 students
attending Cameron this year. They only reserve 1200 tickets for students in that rinky dink court.
by Snappin Terp on Feb 3, 2012 11:19 PM EST up reply actions
wow, that is pretty sad
All Duke hatred aside, that is pretty sad for such a “prestigious” program to only have an average of 700 students attending.
Super Conferences =
Super Diluted. In a number of years we will be able to tell our kids “oh, when I was growing up the league didn’t decide who your rivals were. The schools and students did it on their own by having some really intense games.”
I know this how the conference needs to go in order to “compete” with other conferences, but I didn’t foresee the loss of our top 3 rivals either.
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Pitt vs. Duke
My other question is why try to make Pitt our basketball rival if you aren’t going to put them in our football division as well?
Funny you never complained about so-called rivals Maryland and Duke being in separate football divisions.
I'll agree with you on the football divisions
Even though I like the Pitt pairing, I’ll agree with you that if they are going to “force” rivalries in basketball the teams should be in the same football divisions.
You better believe Swofford got an earfull from K about dropping the Duke rivalry. Duke HATES coming to CP because of the rowdy fans. K said it is the most hostile crowd of the year for his little dookies.
every major program hates coming to CP
I think when most major basketball programs come here they hate it. When we get a big student turnout we have one of the rowdiest crowds in the nation. I believe whenever we have the Big 10-ACC Challenge, when we’re the home team the Big 10 hates it. I’m trying to think of the out of conference team is off the top of my head that said that CP is one of the worst places to play as an away team…maybe another cup of coffee will bring it to me.
SVP is not happy
He tweeted: "@notthefakeSVP So Maryland’s new “rival” for home/home in hoops every year is Pitt? So much has been thrown away to be a lousy football conference"
Seems to be a matter of tradition for him. In a reply to someone else he mentioned “I just don’t want two games a year with the new guy. I value tradition.”
this could be a blessing in disguise
ends the build up to duke every year. soon fans will be going to games because its simply Maryland basketball
Agree 100%
Hell yea! Forget all this Duke shit. They and the Tar Holes will always be ultimate rivals so let’s finally develop one of our own. And Pitt should develop into a great rivalry
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