HOOPS RECRUITING Portal Madness
- By gocatsgo2003
- The Rock
- 37 Replies
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Big East is bball only. I don’t think Duke would leave the football program in the wilderness (see UCONN).Merge strongest members of ACC and Big East and you have a basketball super league.
What league you play in matters, even for Duke. If UNC, Clemson, UVA, FSU leave ACC, that conference would be at the bottom of any power conference ranking. Would be difficult to maintain elite status in a 2nd tier conference.They will still likely have the donor support and brand name to be an elite basketball name, but they'll have to focus their institutional resources more than they do already to do so. Same way the top Big East programs operate and why a schol like Villanova is looking at paying big NIL bucks for players and taking Big Ten coaches away.