ACC Tournament time? Cue expansion haters.
Mar 10, 2010
The ACC Tournament starts tomorrow, which inevitably bring back the "expansion stinks" meme.
I find it interesting that none of the pundits gleefully poking fun of John Swofford and the ACC ever present a solution to the conference’s "problems". They won't even touch the flawed logic of praising the Big East despite the conference having 4 more teams than the ACC.
It’s worth pointing out the loudest critics of expansion typically originates from the older media contingent. In essence, those who made their bones covering ACC basketball. And no matter how hard they close their eyes and wish their romanticized ACC of yesteryear would return, it’s never coming back.
Sit in a room with long-time ACC writers and bring up the “round robin” format. It would be like asking a room full of “Star Wars” die-hards to opine on the prequel trilogy or Tolkien fiends who were offended by the sequencing of "The Lord of the Rings."
The league had to modernized in order to survive in a changing sports climate. Otherwise the conference would have evolved into a type of boutique shop that only sells vintage books about basketball. Instead of focusing so much energy complaining, perhaps one should ponder an existence without expansion. It might just get them out of their stubborn refusal to accept the big picture.
