Fisher DeBerry has mixed feelings about the changing landscape of college football. The former Air Force head coach sees the change as both exciting and sad as he watches conferences realign across the country.
Darius Parson was alerted of Syracuse's move to the Atlantic Coast Conference when he was tagged in a Facebook post.
Al Skinner appreciated the gesture, but he still felt somewhat out of place.
Sitting among Atlantic Coast Conference coaches and officials at the league's spring meetings in 2004, none of the decisions being made had any effect on Skinner or Boston College. With another season in the Big East remaining for the Eagles, Skinner had no interest in focusing on ACC issues.
Despite Syracuse's move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, ticket sales for sporting events are expected to remain relatively similar to what they are now, said Daryl Gross, SU's athletic director.
With Syracuse's move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the university's teams will now be playing up and down the Eastern Seaboard, not just in the Northeast. This move, however, will not change SU's marketing campaign as New York's College Team, said Daryl Gross, SU's athletic director.
Since Syracuse announced its decision to move to the Atlantic Coast Conference on Sept. 18, much of the conversation has focused on the fact that the decision was, at its core, about money.
Academically, Syracuse University will transition from the Big East Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference smoothly, but likely not as a top academic athletic program.
When Syracuse University begins play in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2014, it will bring something unfamiliar to the current 12-team conference: on-campus beer sales at home games in the Carrier Dome.
Editor's note: With Syracuse's move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, many of the Orange's traditional rivalries will cease to exist. Games against Georgetown and Villanova will become very rare, if they take place at all. During the course of the next three days, The Daily Orange Sports staff will be publishing summaries of each of the 12 ACC schools prior to the addition of SU and Pittsburgh.
Syracuse will comply with the bylaws of the Big East regarding the timetable for leaving the conference to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, said Tuesday.
After accepting offers to join the Atlantic Coast Conference during the weekend, Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh will become the 13th and 14th members of a conference that just one year ago negotiated a TV contract worth nearly $2 billion.
Am I really supposed to believe Jim Boeheim is looking forward to competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference? That after 11,797 days as a member of the Big East — since the league's very first day of existence on May 31, 1979 — Boeheim was OK with Syracuse's move to the ACC?
Rachel Renock said she was shocked when she heard Syracuse University would be leaving the Big East conference for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Syracuse has accepted an offer to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to an SU Athletics press release. ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced on Sunday that the ACC Council of Presidents voted unanimously to accept Syracuse and Pittsburgh as its 13th and 14th conference members.
Syracuse and Pittsburgh have initiated the process of leaving the Big East by applying to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to reports from The New York Times and ESPN.
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