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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 162212" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I think the problem is that a lot of the people who are sports writers or broadcasters don't really know that much about the sports themselves. Ditto the usual fan. So they go with the easy analysis: they peg conferences and the teams within them with certain sports.</p><p></p><p>For the ACC, that sport is, for better or worse, basketball. It is the basketball league in most everyone's mind in the sports media, just like the SEC is the football league. Upsetting this convenient stereotyping makes it harder to keep up with the sports and to sell them to fans. So even people who really do know their stuff tend to stick with it and switch narratives about the "dominant conference" with the seasons.</p><p></p><p>Now, this makes about zero sense. The P-5 conferences are spending a lot of time and money trying to even the playing field in all sports and it is paying off. But there it is and it'll take a lot of time and a lot more change before it stops.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 162212, member: 265"] I think the problem is that a lot of the people who are sports writers or broadcasters don't really know that much about the sports themselves. Ditto the usual fan. So they go with the easy analysis: they peg conferences and the teams within them with certain sports. For the ACC, that sport is, for better or worse, basketball. It is the basketball league in most everyone's mind in the sports media, just like the SEC is the football league. Upsetting this convenient stereotyping makes it harder to keep up with the sports and to sell them to fans. So even people who really do know their stuff tend to stick with it and switch narratives about the "dominant conference" with the seasons. Now, this makes about zero sense. The P-5 conferences are spending a lot of time and money trying to even the playing field in all sports and it is paying off. But there it is and it'll take a lot of time and a lot more change before it stops. [/QUOTE]
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