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Stmpy, you are a royal ACC guy and I appreciate that. I don't have anything against UVA since I believe UVA was one of the schools along with UNC, Duke and Wake that wanted the Huskies.
However, comparing B1G taking to ACC taking Louisville is just ridiculous. B1G took RU because they wanted a new market and RU is similar in profile to other B1G schools. RU might suck in everything but they at least fit the profile. UL, on the other hand, has zero in common with ACC schools. They are a horrible academic school in a small market, not on the Atlantic coast, and is the distant second school in a poor state. I understand ACC did it out of fear and desperation. But, realignment is a long term marriage, not picking schools based on what have you done for me lately. Meanwhile, you got a school that fit every single ACC profile and you skipped us and leave us to die in the AAC while commuter schools like UL get a life boat? UL is a pig with a bright lipstick. They fudged their revenue by screwing over city of Louisviile with a shady lease. Did you know YUM center is $800M in debt and the bond that financed it is in junk status?
You can't blame UCONN fans for being bitter. We can't stand the ACC because of its short sightness and acting like the old BE. You guys also gave ND the old BE deal. The worst of it all is you guys let BCU block us and let their of an AD brag about it to the media. Because of these moves, ACC is doomed to fail once sugar daddy ESPiN has no more use for it or when FSU get a better offer elsewhere. The fact that ACC s now made up of bunch of schools with not much in common is not a good thing either. In the ACC, only UVA and UNC are our peers. You can't fault us for wanting to go to a conference with many schools that are similar to us.
Ok. I totally understand and agree that the CR that has gone on in the past 20 years or so disrupted the Big East Conference and the ACC is responsible for adding the bulk of the Big East schools that left. I also get the distaste for Gene DeFillippo's comments. I didn't like those either, and they didn't represent the ACC. He had to come back and clarify that. I don't get the BC position still.
I'm used to the diversity of institutions in the ACC. I find that healthy rather than unhealthy. We have football focused schools, basketball focused schools, lacrosse schools, baseball schools, etc. I find that if everyone were the same, it would be boring. What the league has in common are strong athletic departments and new schools with potential to have them. UConn has one. That's why I like UConn. Maryland's has been falling apart. That's why I'm not so unhappy about their departure even given the long history. You would know Rutgers' better than me.