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Message: [QUOTE="Yawkey Way, post: 1569172, member: 4458"] The BIG 10 was always a better football conference than the ACC. The ACC was primarily a Basketball Conference before Swofford took over as Commish, and competing in the same waters as the Big East in football and Basketball. If we look at the ACC when Swofford took over, with his chief rival at the time ,the Big East, Swofford was able to clearly win that battle by proactvely acting to transform the ACC from primarily a Basketball League to a balanced league between football and Basketball..... AND.... put his main rival league, the BE into a competitive tailspin, resulting in a spin off by that league of its football programs, and making the BE a collection of Basketball schools. Swofford negotiated a solid, if unspectacular, TV contract for the league, and kept FSU, Clemson from bolting, and made BE Commish Tranghese to look like a fool with his no vision, and utter incompetence. It is now the B12 that is a league with vitriol and divisiveness among its members. Commish Delaney of the BIG dealt reasonably well with the strong hand he was dealt, but the addition of Rutgers and Maryland ( while losing Notre Dame to the ACC in all sports for football) does not compare all that well with the tenure moves of Swofford during the same tenure periods in my opinion. The additions by Swofford of Miami, Virginia Tech, BC, Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse, ND (for all but football ) solidified the league as a P5 conference, and made the league far more than just the southern tobccco road basketball oriented league the ACC was prior to Swofford's tenure and work. If you consider the entire body of work of Swofford as Commissioner during the league realignments and expansions to be one of " incompetence " compared to others, then we'll just have to respectfully disagree on this. [/QUOTE]

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