RE: Congrats Syracuse
The evolution of the ACC:
1. SIAA (The Grandfather Conference) - 1884-1921 - UNC, Georgia, Texas, Clemson, etc., etc. (dozens of schools from Texas, to Kentucky, to Virginia, to the East Coast to Florida)
2. SAIAA (The Grandmother Conference) - 1907-1921 - UNC, NC State, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, William and Mary, Richmond, Georgetown
Maryland and NC State were instrumental in this break away from the SIAA, as the SIAA had dozens of schools and travel was unreal and championships in football were based on as few as four games.
3. Southern Conference (The Mother Conference) 1921-Present - The SAIAA, plus most of the SIAA, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Ole Miss, MSU, GT, Vandy, Florida, Sewanee, Tulane, South Carolina, Clemson, Kentucky, LSU, Tennessee
This was the SEC schools pulling out of the SIAA and leaving the small schools behind and merging with the one day ACC core.
4A. Southeastern Conference (Big Brother) (Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, GT, Vandy, Florida, Sewanee, Tulane, Kentucky, LSU, Tennessee, MSU, Georgia)
This was the SEC schools pulling out of a SoCon that had added Duke and a number of others growing to 23 teams.
4B. ACC (Little Brother) (Maryland, Duke, Clemson, South Carolina, NC State, UNC, Wake Forest) - VT, WVA blackballed
This was Maryland and Duke pulling out of a 17 team Southern Conference due to hate for West Virginia, and anger at VT's president supporting a Bowl Ban.
All of this happened while FSU was still a girl's school, Louisville was still a city college, and Miami was too far away for anyone to want to travel. To the best of my knowledge only Pitt, Syracuse, and BC were never in one of these incarnations.
The only major schools that associated in the 1890's to 1900's that are not still together in some fashion in the SEC and ACC are Texas and Maryland and of course both have an ego problem.
This might go a ways to highlighting why the ACC was so pissed at MD's hijacking by the Maryland's moles from the B10. Maryland was a core school from 1907, not 1953 as it often tossed out by sloppy, stupid media people. However it's also informative to know that Maryland has always been an initiator of moving and changing conference makeup to better suit themselves.
(This post was last modified: 12-28-2013 03:02 PM by lumberpack4.)
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