(08-06-2023 01:42 PM)Purple Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 01:16 PM)CarRamrod Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 01:09 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(08-06-2023 12:45 PM)CarRamrod Wrote:  I'd absolutely love being in the ACC if some of our SBC rivals came too, but I am reluctant to think there's any chance of this happening in the next 5 years.

Your own doubts and misbelief are coloring your analysis. I'd say its more likely on a 5-10 year scale, and think thats when we will see ACC changes.

This is just like all the folks who said we couldn't compete in FBS, or Cig wouldn't win, or we wouldn't fill the stadium.

PG is right, there are way too many doubting Thomas's in the fanbase that don't recognize the potential. Others do understand it, all the way back to Coach Matthews, who has also said we have ACC potential.

100% agree we have ACC potential, the SI article seemed to suggest we are currently a expansion target which seems to be 5-10 years too early. If we get an ACC invite in the next 5 years I will gladly come back to the thread and say I was wrong. I am only cautious because there are a few in our fanbase that always expect our admin to produce small miracles and I find it completely unrealistic to expect our admin to get us into the ACC in the next 5 years.

We would not expect our admin to somehow perform a miracle and force our way into the ACC. The ACC has something to say about it, and as I said earlier, if you are the ACC and are looking to fill a slot, who else would you choose?

With two slots to fill, if I were the ACC, I would look no farther than App and JMU. ECU is more established in the FBS world, but they also suck at football. Plus, we are an ascending program with a larger budget than EZU, which I consider a descending program, or static, at best.

Agreed that those two make a lot of sense if ACC is thinking long-term. I find it hard to believe the NC/VA ACC schools would support it.