(11-29-2019 05:24 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(11-27-2019 04:09 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  We’ve talked what if regarding the ACC on here before but let’s spin this one:

VT and WVU get invited to be founding members of a 10 member ACC.

The presence of those two helps Maryland, SC, and Clemson curtail the elitism of the other 5 and SC never gets mad enough to leave.

GT gets added as #11 in 1978.

Virginia Tech wasn't a big enough program in 1953. It was playing at 17,000 seat Miles Stadium.

So how's this scenario? Georgetown dropped out of major college football just two years before the ACC got started. In its last season it played Penn State, Miami, Maryland, Boston College and Villanova (among others) en route to a 2-7 record, and had played Wake and NC State a few years earlier. They played in a 30,000 seat stadium. Had they hung on, does the ACC find them as a traveling partner with Maryland?

I believe Virginia Tech played big games in Roanoke and Norfolk.*

..and definitely no on Georgetown. You have to imagine the people in charge then considering Georgetown.


*Richmond too