(10-04-2017 09:53 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(10-04-2017 09:42 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  I'm unfamiliar, but is there "beef" between ACC brass and West Virginia?

I come from ACC territory so let me give this a wack: The ACC's problem with WVU has never been based on a specific issue, like UConn filing a lawsuit against them. It's cultural. The ACC, particularly the Carolina-Virginia core, has long had an elitist attitude. They have wanted to be viewed nationally as enlightened and progressive. And part of that is looking down their noses at schools like WVU, which they regard as an uncouth, backwards, "mountain" school. A wrong view, IMO, but i think that's the stereotype the ACC has of WVU.

ACC schools have always craved the respect of elite northern institutions, and they fear that northern schools tend to lump everything south of the Mason-Dixon line together in one undesirable bag. So they taken pains to avoid rubbing elbows with deep south schools (the SEC), and also schools they perceive as being backwoods/backwards, like WVU.