Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim has been around the Big East since 1979. He’s seen the league grow and rumble through tough times — and that counts years separate from the threats and effects of expansion.

He just doesn’t believe that everything everyone says will happen will in fact happen … and that includes not just the possible moves, but the subsequent success most expect will follow.

He’s witnessed how the ACC and Big East reformed before and he took notes before, during and after. This is not necessarily a new view, but then again, it’s not what Boeheim says that matters as much as how he says it.

“Boston College is in the A.C.C., and no one cares about it there,” Boeheim said of the former Big East program that joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2005. “They have hung on in football, but Miami and Florida State will get strong again and they’ll be an afterthought in football.

“I don’t think we’ll do well in the Big Ten. It’s possible, but I don’t think we’d do well at all. I just don’t see how Syracuse or Rutgers fits in with Iowa and Illinois.”

Boeheim said that players in recruiting hotbeds like New York, Philadelphia and Washington, the lifeblood markets for Big East universities, probably would not find playing in a Midwest-dominated league appealing.

“Say a couple schools go to the Big Ten,” Boeheim said. “Who’s to say a New York City kid would want to go there? There’s no logical reason for that kid to want to do that. But someone with a big ego in a football conference is taking over. I just don’t think it helps recruiting to be in the Big Ten.”