Quote:The good news for ACC fans is that the conference survived the most recent round of realignment shenanigans and has found its way into the big five conference alignment for the upcoming college football playoff. The bad news is that there can be little argument the league is fifth among the quintet and still susceptible to the expansion yearnings of its more prosperous brethren.

So, what is the ACC to do? Glad you asked. Here is a modest, 12-step program to security.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football...c-football

I think it's a very good article. All of these are reasonable.

Basic rundown
1. Be grateful for what the ACC currently has.

2. FSU, develop Jameis Wilson into a star.

3. Miami, get an on-campus stadium.

4. Louisville, never let go of Tom Jurich.

5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

6. UNC, NCSU, and UVA, recruit your own turf better.

7. VT, pay attention to your offense.

8. Pitt, get your act back together.

9. BC and 'Cuse, become eastern powers once more.

10. North Carolina, behave!

11. Duke and Wake, hold that line.

12. Just win, baby!

Bonus: Seduce Notre Dame to the dark side.

Yep

(07-16-2013 04:04 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  

Quote:The good news for ACC fans is that the conference survived the most recent round of realignment shenanigans and has found its way into the big five conference alignment for the upcoming college football playoff. The bad news is that there can be little argument the league is fifth among the quintet and still susceptible to the expansion yearnings of its more prosperous brethren.

So, what is the ACC to do? Glad you asked. Here is a modest, 12-step program to security.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football...c-football

I think it's a very good article. All of these are reasonable.

Basic rundown
1. Be grateful for what the ACC currently has.

2. FSU, develop Jameis Wilson into a star.

3. Miami, get an on-campus stadium.

4. Louisville, never let go of Tom Jurich.

5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

6. UNC, NCSU, and UVA, recruit your own turf better.

7. VT, pay attention to your offense.

8. Pitt, get your act back together.

9. BC and 'Cuse, become eastern powers once more.

10. North Carolina, behave!

11. Duke and Wake, hold that line.

12. Just win, baby!

Bonus: Seduce Notre Dame to the dark side.

Miami building an on-campus stadium is not reasonable, nor possible.

Using the word fix supposes something is broken. I'm not sure.

(07-16-2013 09:51 PM)ndlutz Wrote:  Using the word fix supposes something is broken. I'm not sure.

yeah, the article was extremely condescending in tone, in my view, and not really in-tune with the feelings within the conference itself, nor if I remember correctly, did it mention the GOR, etc. It felt like it was written by a blog and provided no more realistic insight than some of those that frequent these boards.

In fact, while I was glancing over it on the newsstand, that article pretty much made my decision not to buy it for me.

#1 is pretty stupid.

The only thing the ACC needs to do is Just Win...

(07-16-2013 06:45 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  

(07-16-2013 04:04 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  

Quote:The good news for ACC fans is that the conference survived the most recent round of realignment shenanigans and has found its way into the big five conference alignment for the upcoming college football playoff. The bad news is that there can be little argument the league is fifth among the quintet and still susceptible to the expansion yearnings of its more prosperous brethren.

So, what is the ACC to do? Glad you asked. Here is a modest, 12-step program to security.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football...c-football

I think it's a very good article. All of these are reasonable.

Basic rundown
1. Be grateful for what the ACC currently has.

2. FSU, develop Jameis Wilson into a star.

3. Miami, get an on-campus stadium.

4. Louisville, never let go of Tom Jurich.

5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

6. UNC, NCSU, and UVA, recruit your own turf better.

7. VT, pay attention to your offense.

8. Pitt, get your act back together.

9. BC and 'Cuse, become eastern powers once more.

10. North Carolina, behave!

11. Duke and Wake, hold that line.

12. Just win, baby!

Bonus: Seduce Notre Dame to the dark side.

Miami building an on-campus stadium is not reasonable, nor possible.

Beat me to it! There's so much that pushes the opposite of that it's not even cool. The city of Coral Gables treats UM like crap, and plus - finding land in Miami in the dense parts like UM is in? Ha, that's a joke... I don't even know if a 30k seat stadium could fit! :(

Heck, I could have written that after 2 shots of JD and a couple of beer chasers....

Yeah, pretty terrible in my opinion. How dos he not mention the GOR?

Ok, that alternated between simplistic and dumb.

Basic rundown
1. Be grateful for what the ACC currently has.

- Kind of dumb, be grateful for the fifth best football conference. A better way to put it is to appreciate the building blocks that are in place and realize what is possible.

2. FSU, develop Jameis Wilson into a star.

- Silly. The quality of a football conference isn't based on one player, any more than it was based on Matt Ryan or CJ Spiller or whatever.

3. Miami, get an on-campus stadium.

- Never going to happen. People just need to stop agonizing over Miami attendence like it was ever different. Even in their glory years they didn't draw. It is what it is. When they are good they are great TV, they kick ass, and that's all.

4. Louisville, never let go of Tom Jurich.

- That would certainly be a loss

5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

- I would hope that's understood

6. UNC, NCSU, and UVA, recruit your own turf better.

- True

7. VT, pay attention to your offense.

- Pretty simplistic. Offense is an issue, recruiting is an issue overall. I'd say it's more like VT, make sure you're keeping up with the times

8. Pitt, get your act back together.
- How to fix ACC football? Get better!

9. BC and 'Cuse, become eastern powers once more.
- How to fix ACC football? Get better!

10. North Carolina, behave!
- True for sure, but they also have to play better and win more

11. Duke and Wake, hold that line.
- Agree with this

12. Just win, baby!
- Wow, thanks for that.

Bonus: Seduce Notre Dame to the dark side.
- If it happens it happens, but the ACC doesn't need to be doing anything to court Notre Dame football. How a decision affects Notre Dame's future interest in full membership should not even be a consideration.

Yep.

Yep, bottom line, "Just win baby and the rest will take care of its self!"

Yeah, if Miami beats UF and Clemson beats UGA is which are pretty evenly matched games, and UNC upsets USC, the whole perception of the conference changes overnight. That reverberates through the entire season. And I'm not even talking about long-shot upsets like VT-Alabama and UVA-Oregon.

Literally, we just need three schools to show out on on one game each, and nobody to have a head scratching loss.

It's not that big a deal, not much different than the way ACC bowl season played out. We just never manage to do it though.

Miami will never ever get an on-campus stadium.

Three reasons why:
1) the Miami Marlins - The ole' girl aka the Orange Bowl and its 6-7 Miami home football games was traded for a retractable roof, 82 home games for the Marlins and a fat bill for the residents of Miami.

2) the city officials of Miami do not have a clue - Miami, under Donna Shalala's leadership, raised money for the Orange Bowl to get upgrades. They basically asked the city to fund half of the bill, but the city officials evidently do not like the Hurricanes for what ever reason and decided to pass. This ultimately forced Miami's hand to make a deal to play in the Dolphins stadium - which is what I believe the city officials wanted all along.

3) location, location, location - there is really no place to put an on-campus stadium. I know there has been some talk that Miami could build a football stadium in Miami's Tropical Park, but this talk have been going on for years.

Truthfully speaking, the Hurricanes best bet is for 1) the Marlins to stink up the place, 2) the Marlins move somewhere else, and finally 3) restructure the Marlins field to host football.

(07-17-2013 01:29 PM)LUcanesfan Wrote:  Miami will never ever get an on-campus stadium.

Three reasons why:
1) the Miami Marlins - The ole' girl aka the Orange Bowl and its 6-7 Miami home football games was traded for a retractable roof, 82 home games for the Marlins and a fat bill for the residents of Miami.

2) the city officials of Miami do not have a clue - Miami, under Donna Shalala's leadership, raised money for the Orange Bowl to get upgrades. They basically asked the city to fund half of the bill, but the city officials evidently do not like the Hurricanes for what ever reason and decided to pass. This ultimately forced Miami's hand to make a deal to play in the Dolphins stadium - which is what I believe the city officials wanted all along.

3) location, location, location - there is really no place to put an on-campus stadium. I know there has been some talk that Miami could build a football stadium in Miami's Tropical Park, but this talk have been going on for years.

Truthfully speaking, the Hurricanes best bet is for 1) the Marlins to stink up the place, 2) the Marlins move somewhere else, and finally 3) restructure the Marlins field to host football.

Tropical Park is the closest place to Gables to put it, but honestly, that doesn't solve a lot of the issues people assume would be solved by an on-campus stadium. The Tropical Park location would still be off-campus and attendance would still wax and wane based on expectations and wins. A facility there would allow a more customized stadium to hide some of those issues, but it wouldn't fix them, and honestly, parking and traffic would probably horrible. At least Metrorail went to the med center where you could then walk to the OB.

But given a choice, I think Tropical Park would still be better than Sun Life. Sun Life is just too far away.

To put in perspective some of the fan base support issues Miami has locally, Miami was giving away tickets the last time it won a national championship in 2001 (literally, they were handing out tickets to the UW game, a Sat night game, on the med campus when Miami was 10-0 and ranked #1). Miami really doesn't draw all that well until people in Miami expect them to be in a national championship race. The next year, when they went 12-1, the OB was much fuller.

(07-16-2013 04:04 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  

Quote:.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football...c-football

I think it's a very good article. All of these are reasonable.

Basic rundown
1. Be grateful for what the ACC currently has.

2. FSU, develop Jameis Wilson into a star.

3. Miami, get an on-campus stadium.

4. Louisville, never let go of Tom Jurich.

5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

6. UNC, NCSU, and UVA, recruit your own turf better.

7. VT, pay attention to your offense.

8. Pitt, get your act back together.

9. BC and 'Cuse, become eastern powers once more.

10. North Carolina, behave!

11. Duke and Wake, hold that line.

12. Just win, baby!

Bonus: Seduce Notre Dame to the dark side.

UM will never have an On campus stadium. No room for one.

Quote:5. Clemson, be prepared for Chad Morris to leave.

We are.

Current WR Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Jeff Scott is learning at the right hand of Morris, and is heavily involved in offensive game planning.

You may notice something conspicuously missing.

(07-19-2013 01:53 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  You may notice something conspicuously missing.

Yeah! They left out Maryland! How dare they!