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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 1463185, member: 153"]
The ACC, as it owns a highly populated region, should have a natural advantage over the B12, which is essentially Texas and nothing else.

The problem for the ACC is that while it owns Virginia, North Carolina and half of South Carolina, it has populated itself with a bunch of smaller private schools and big state schools that don't own their states. So having Pitt and Miami and BC and Wake Forest and Syracuse isn't really much better than having, say, Oklahoma St., Baylor, Kansas and West Virginia.

From the geographic footprint, this anti-ACC argument looks silly because of the value of that ACC coastline.

But then when you're a North Carolina or NC State or Virginia or Florida St., you can't take for granted that BC or Wake Forest or Georgia Tech somehow trumps Kansas St. when it comes to eyeballs.

No, not necessarily. You've essentially devalued the geography you occupy by buying up the least valuable real estate in the area, hoping that it will increase.

This is the ACCs weakness. As much as Texas looks down its nose at the very thought of Iowa St., you can bet that North Carolina is wondering why on earth it is subsidizing BC.
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