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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2691820, member: 6620"] Fairfield...your points on academic reputation and cache certainly are ones that resonate in guidance offices of high schools on that I-95 corridor from Boston to Richmond. However, part of the future focus of the prospective student-athletes that ACC Coaches are after is the basketball program and that's what I was referring to in my note. And that's why I focused on Wes Moore of NC State and Kenny Brooks of Va. Tech., who have made excellent strides in performance and are starting to yield better recruits. For instance, I fully expect Dara Mabrey to do well under Brook's guidance for the Hokies. And the drawn-out ending of the Sylvia Hatchell era is pulling the Tarheels back into the middle of the pack. So, my thought is a less-than-top-notch basketball program can also hinder attempts to bring in the types of students that both you and I are referencing. Will Tina Thompson be able to up the ante? Time will tell. BTW, many different universities can have majors that are draws to different types of interests. I know many friends from Virginia who have kids at Va. Tech to get engineering degrees and two of my best friends studied landscape architecture at NC State. We've got lots of colleges in this country where you can learn and make a mark (says the father of four, whose last is just graduating from college this May! ;)) [/QUOTE]