The ACC: Post expansion analysis

I doubt they invite any of those teams.

BC is going nowhere, they burned so many bridges when they left the BE, all 3 were told to never come back.

ECU would need a better bball program, sorry but that's still the ACC's bread and butter.

USC was already in the conference for some time and left years ago.

Nobody is getting the boot anytime soon.

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, then why did the ACC bring in VT & UM ? ? ? I mean, their hoops success is pretty limited beyond Dell Curry & Rick Barry respectively . . .

 

You don't seem to grasp how awful ECU's basketball team is. Take it from someone who has seen them play, they're much, much worse at basketball than Duke is at football.

 

VT and Miami were nowhere near as bad as ECU is in bball, and while ECU has had good football seasons, they've had nothing comparable to anything VT or Miami has had.

Remember, VT's main reason of getting in is b/c the Gov. of VA basically threatened to take away funding from UVA if they didn't vote and lobby for VT to get in. The ACC wanted Syracuse the entire time.

 

I wondered when someone would get to this. We pulled political strings to get in.

To the Va Tech backer who had the incriminating photos of important people in Virginia politics?

THANK YOU!

 

Well, they did beat NC State last year. On second thought, nevermind.

 

Off-topic however:

Give duke a couple years in football, they will not be VT caliber or anything, but for the first time in like 103019230812039 years, Duke brought in a pretty decent recruiting class. Something I never thought I would say....

 

I have heard Penn State's name mentioned.

 

no chance penn state leaves the big 10 for the acc.....thats dumb. as bad as the big 10 is, they are still wayyyyyy better than the acc.

 

In the big picture (all sports), you think the Big Ten is wayyyyyy better than the ACC? I'll give you football and Penn State is good in volleyball, but I think the ACC more than holds its own everywhere else. ACC/Big Ten challenge anyone?

It was a few years back (2002-2003) and I may not remember exactly, but during expansion, Penn State wanted in the ACC. The powers that be chose B.C. instead because of the media outlets. Penn State at the time had been pretty mediocre in football for about 5 years. They of course then enjoyed a 11-1 season in 2005.

Everyone can take shots at pretty much every conference besides the SEC at this point, but we are only 3 games into a long football season. It's hard to define a conference's success after 3 weekends.