(07-29-2013 11:07 PM)john01992 Wrote: (07-29-2013 10:03 PM)jrj84105 Wrote: This may not be the best way to display this data, but here's a pie chart of team years by conference for the current ACC members.
By comparison, here's what the Big East (now AAC) would have looked like with Boise and SDSU.
it be cool to see that for the pac12 & b12. but the b10 takes the cake......
I think instead of SIAA, you mean SAIAA South Atlantic Intecollegiate Athletic Association 1907-1922 with members Maryland, UNC, NC State, UVa, VT, and Clemon who dropped out in 1910. UNC, Clemson and UVa were members of the SIAA and VT was a member for one year and NC State (NC A&M) was a brief member.
The core of the conference is SAIAA, Southern Conference, ACC, with UNC, NC State, UVa, VT, Clemson and Maryland being there in 1907 until today. UNC, NC State and Maryland are the only three to be in all iterations of the conference for the last 106 years. Clemson ditched the SAIAA to go back to the SIAA in 1911 and stayed there for 10 years until rejoining the main group in 1921. UVa quit the SoCon in 1936 and rejoined the group in the ACC in 1953. VT was effectively blackballed out to the ACC for 50 years between 1953 and 2003. Duke (Trinity) didn't join the SAIAA or the SoCon until 1928. Wake Forest did not join the SoCon until 1937. GT was in the SIAA and the SoCon from the 1890's to 1933, dropped out of the SEC in 1964 and rejoined the ACC branch in 1978.
The ACC's history is very much like the P12 with similar happenings over the years, except when the PAC 6 reformed itself after tossing out UCLA in the 50's, it kept it's old PCC records with the new conference name - PAC 5/6/8/10/12
The ACC didn't do this with SoCon records back to 1933, let alone 1921.
It would interesting to see the chart with the SAIAA/SoCon/ACC in one slice.