(10-12-2014 02:44 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(10-12-2014 02:27 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-12-2014 11:37 AM)Maize Wrote:  Point well made...only thing is it was reported that the B1G did have it eyes on Georgia Tech...the Atlanta Market is quite large....also Swagger was pimping Louisville to replace Maryland when they left for the B1G.

Well yea, once we're this far into the clustereff ... Louisville was the right call. My point is expansion was poorly done from the outset. The last year before the ACC expanded they were #1 in the nation in overall Sagarin and, top to bottom, the best conference in football in the country. There have been many questionable moves since. I would rather have seen, from the position of strength in 2003, the ACC raid the SEC East and the and pick up a few sensible pieces here and there.

Florida State
Florida
Miami
UCF

Georgia
Georgia Tech
Clemson
South Carolina

North Carolina
NC State
Wake Forest
Duke

Tennessee
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Maryland

I really think all this realignment is long term unstable. A la carte is going to come along and make the Jim Delanys of the world go from genius to foolish.

GTS,

There was no way that the ACC was ever going to be able to poach schools from the SEC back in 2003, which, imo, is the reason that the Acc poached the BE in the first place. Even if Sagarin did have the ACC as the strongest conference top to bottom, in the minds of public opinion, back then, the BE was seen as the stronger conference on the field with Miami, VT and a very strong Syracuse, along with WV and BC.

Unstable....maybe but with the ACC really it is in good shape compared to the Big XII. Also, I doubt any school would leave the SEC for the ACC and if regaining USCjr was a goal it should have been done back in the 90s before they got the SEC invite.

You do have a excellent point on the coming A la Carte...with the new NBA Deal that is coming sooner rather than later...

These conversations bashing other teams is stupid. All of us that are in the current ACC will sink or swim together! We all should be promoting each other. We have a wonderful conference, so be happy and keep getting better.

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