re: 10/04 Various games thread

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Honest question, what was the deciding factor, when the ACC expanded in selecting a school like Pitt over Cincinnati?

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Good question. I'm not sure I remember. Some guesses:
1) Pitt was a member of the Big East for over 20 years, Cincy was only in the Big East for 8 years so Pitt was more established as a Power 6 team. Cincy was a C-USA team before that.

2)Pitt is the #2 team in PA, and had a historic rivalry with Penn State, while Cincy, even if they often were #2 in OH, has no such rivalry with Ohio State ( except for 3 years in basketball in the 1960s,) so I think the ACC felt Pitt was a bigger poke in the eye to the Big Ten as far as having a team in Big Ten country.

These are just my guesses, I don't know for sure.