So about the ACC in MSG

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Why do we act like 2005 was a sacred date of some sort for conference affiliation?]

Because that is why MU & others left CUSA for the Big East after the ACC raided the Big East of Boston College, Virginia Tech and Miami.

The problem isn't conference shifting, its the fact that the ACC has always targeted the Big East, and for reasons beyond football. Why do they want the tourney in MSG? Becaue they knows its "The world's most famous arena". They know it is the premier facility. They want to be known as the best conference in the nation and the best conference in the nation plays their conference tournament in Madison Square Garden. They want it just to prove that they are top dog.

They can kiss the Big East's ass.

Look, the AD at BC slipped up and told the media that "ESPN told them what schools to target". ESPN was pissed that the Big East didn't take their contract, so ESPN and their affiliates will continue to take shot after shot after shot at the Big East and pump up the ACC as much as they can. While I would like to say we need to get used to that, it is asinine that this would even go on. These are supposedly institutions of higher education, but they are far from it in the way they are going about things.