John Swofford, commissioner of the ACC, thinks the NCAA basketball tournament needs to expand. He also thinks that the selection committee needs to be changed up. From Jacksonville.com…
“We think this is the best basketball conference in the country and would certainly expect to have our fair share of representation in the NCAA Tournament as we normally do in future years,” Swofford said. “We think it’s time to take a look at expanding the tournament.”
Swofford said the league’s leaders also expressed concern over the makeup of the 10-member selection committee, which included seven representative from mid-major or small conferences, some of which lacked basketball backgrounds.
Man, that ACC just can’t catch a break. It sure would be great for them if there was a cable sports network that liked them, or if their teams got any media exposure, or if they got all the great recruits, or if the most famous and recognizable college basketball commentator in the world continually sucked them off… it sure would be great if any of that could happen. But it can’t, and the underdog ACC keeps getting screwed by the man.
I think there’s only one reasonable solution here… and that’s for every team in the nation to join the ACC. It will be the first 327-team conference. And then, we’ll expand the NCAA tournament field to 327, and change the name of it to the John Swofford Invitational. And cheerleaders from all the schools will be forced to pleasure John Swofford, and Dick Vitale can hand-feed him grapes while Mike Krzyzewski arms him not just with a jumpshot, but for life.
At some point, asshole, you’re just going to have to accept that Florida State didn’t deserve a bid. Get over it.
The Big Picture
dude, swofford’s probably pissed that like Clemson didn’t get in…fuck nut. perhaps he should get in a 3-way with Dicky V and Billy Packer.
May 19, 2006 at 3:17 am
telly
clearly George Mason didn’t deserve a bid.
May 19, 2006 at 5:06 am
DookieStyle
fuck the ACC
May 19, 2006 at 6:47 am
Rob
I’m still in shock that the ACC baseball tournament is headed to Fenway. I guess this just slings the phrase Tobacco Road down the gutter.
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/wire/sns-ap-bbc-acc-fenway,1,7640497.story?coll=sns-ap-collegesports-headlines
May 19, 2006 at 7:44 am
unc_samurai
Remember, this is Swofford’s baby. He thinks that he can turn the ACC into the Big 10 or 12 of EVERY sport. Keep in mind that UNC, UVA, and Duke vehemently opposed football expansion. Granted, UVA did so more as leverage to get Va Tech into the league, but like Marcus Vick may have said, it was worth the shot.
Seriously, there’s still a lot of people in the Carolinas and Virginia really upset at the direction the league has taken, especially if it means not getting a game against Duke every year in football. Swofford won’t be happy until he can boast a more popular football conference than the SEC (ain’t happening), ten teams in the basketball tourney (ditto), and the Big East folds and splits into two conferences (that, he might have a shot at).
May 19, 2006 at 9:12 am
Rob
Sorry for the really long link up top.
Just wanted to let you know that even the local media scene is ragging on Swofford. This is from the Winston-Salem Journal, where every link is longer than a Suns-Clippers game:
n the latest installment of “Welfare for Millionaires,” ACC coaches and bureaucrats deride the selection committee’s disrespect. Their essential argument: ACC teams deserve more recognition for the pressures endured and performances required in America’s toughest conference.
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Maybe the ACC should spend less time grandstanding and more time putting some passion in the grandstands for the painfully emotionless first day of the expanded ACC Tournament. In the old ACC, people skipped work to see the quarterfinals. Now it takes an entire day to qualify teams for the quarterfinals, and many ticket-holders skip basketball in favor of work.
May 19, 2006 at 9:36 am
JMD
Why don’t they go ahead swallow up the entire Big East and go to 28? Seems like the right number to me.
May 19, 2006 at 9:41 am
sanchez
SANCHEZ!
May 19, 2006 at 11:29 am
dave
i think you need to update your graphic. bc called — they’re pissed.
May 19, 2006 at 2:23 pm