Originally Posted by
HereBeforeCoachK
First of all, the crashing of Miami and Florida State is a huge reason. Then you add in that Va Tech slipped some. Clemson has risen to the top as that was going on, but the league went from 3 premiere programs to only one.
As for the stadiums...it's not the stadiums per se. It's the lack of fans to fill them...so many private schools...and even Pitt and Syracuse are kind of quasi private...and Miami is fully private, in addition to Duke, WF, BC and so on. T
Originally Posted by
AustinDevil
Isn't Syracuse actually, fully private? (Tho one of the better private draws not named SC or Notre Dame...)
Pitt is publicly funded but independently run, although once was totally private:
In 1966 the state designated Pitt as a state-related university, which allows it to receive public funds (currently more than $160 million per year). This allows the university to offer reduced tuition to Pennsylvania residents, but it remains under independent control. Pitt is typically listed as a public university.
Syracuse is fully private -- as are BC, Duke, Wake, and Miami -- and let's not forget Notre Dame.
HBCK may be thinking of Cornell, which is charmingly listed as a "public and statutory Ivy League research university." Statutory as in land-grant college; it qualifies for public funding -- I always thought it was the ag school.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013