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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 2103374, member: 3850"] Been talked about....rotating divisions....hasn't gotten any traction. Not much support from traditionalists....the southern programs wouldn't mind a North-South Division split...but the northern schools squeal every time that is brought up. Regionalism makes all sort of rivalry sense to me. You can bet, that if there is a move to go further to the northeast, that the southern schools will want a North-South divisional split. Every faction has its agenda....The Tobacco Road group like having Duke, UNC, Virginia together without FSU and Clemson and don't want to split it differently. Georgia Tech likes the Tobacco Road division it is in and counts Duke and UNC as major football rivals. FSU and Clemson aren't enamored about travelling to Boston and Syracuse, you never see their fans in the return game, and these far flung opponents have little chance of becoming a rivalry. None of the programs want to be locked out of playing one of Miami and FSU for the perceived recruiting benefits of playing in Florida. The Virginia contingent may (I do not know this) want to keep VT and Virginia in the same division. Every talk about division structure at the ACC meetings ends up a stalemate. Put FSU, Miami, and Clemson in the same group (as they should be in a North-South) and you may effectively create a football conference and a basketball conference, both housed in the ACC. And, then there is Notre Dame hanging about like the spectre of Christmas Future...and everybody wants them on the schedule. [/QUOTE]

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