If Boston College and Syracuse get most of the cable subscribers in the states of Massachusetts and New York paying for the ACC Network, it's good enough for me. The major cable provider in New York City, Altice Cablevision, has already contracted to pay. The Walt Disney Company made it happen. Now we need Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon, and ATT to follow.

The fans of all of these schools have passion when their teams are doing well. WVU is stronger because they get the whole state, not just their alumni. But the ECU passion isn't the same as WVU, and their average football attendance from 2017 isn't much different than Syracuse and Boston College.

ECU 36,727
Boston College 35,924
Syracuse 33,929

All three can bump that up close to 50K when they are winning consistently. The ACC needed to get itself on television in New York and Massachusetts/New England. We didn't need any help with that in North Carolina.

I get concerned when teams don't make the effort to compete. The recent year where BC lost every football and basketball game in the ACC was a concern. But I see them gradually turning that back around now, so concerned less. They went to a Bowl Game and the NIT this year. I think they made some coaching mistakes that they have corrected. This recent Pitt performance in basketball has me worried. But hopefully Jeff Capel can fix it. I didn't like UVA holding onto Mike London so long. But things can improve.