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CaneFan79 said:
This only changes when John Swofford dies...Maybe.
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Nah. Our administration along with FSU and the rest of the non-Carolina conference members will just shrug their collective shoulders as Thatcher Ainsworth, a man raised in Winston-Salem but educated at both UNC AND Dook, is ushered in as the successor.

I'll seriously never understand the inability of some factions in college sports to grab power. The football schools in the ACC fail to do it within their own conference. The Big Ten as a whole fails to do it in relation to allowing the smaller and less financially powerful SEC to control the NCAA (in relation to football). And the Pac 23 itself is just an outright joke when it comes to ANY power struggles even though it seemingly holds larger tv markets than both the Big 12 and SEC.
 
Tad Footeball said:
Nah. Our administration along with FSU and the rest of the non-Carolina conference members will just shrug their collective shoulders as Thatcher Ainsworth, a man raised in Winston-Salem but educated at both UNC AND Dook, is ushered in as the successor.

I'll seriously never understand the inability of some factions in college sports to grab power. The football schools in the ACC fail to do it within their own conference. The Big Ten as a whole fails to do it in relation to allowing the smaller and less financially powerful SEC to control the NCAA (in relation to football). And the Pac 23 itself is just an outright joke when it comes to ANY power struggles even though it seemingly holds larger tv markets than both the Big 12 and SEC.
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I could write for days on this subject (and if you look at some of my previous posts, I have!) but, all you need to do today is watch the Frozen Four final tonight on the four-letter. Minnesota-Duluth (Go Bulldogs, especially after beating O$Uck) will be playing the Domers. A look at the ethnically offensive nicknamed team's sweaters will show "B-I-G" on them. No, a kid named Braden Irél Griffin didn't get put to death by Brian Kelly at spring practices, it's THAT conference, one in competition with the ACC. Wait, didn't the Notre Lesbos just win with "ACC" on what passes for a jersey in NCAAW? What gives?!?

Notre Lame was in a perfectly good hockey conference, Hockey East (along with fellow ACC member BC), but were able to change when the BIG allowed associate membership. Did Swofford lay the guantlet down and tell Swarbrick that the ACC had bent over for them already and that no way was the ACC going to allow a potential (now reality) marketing coup by the BIG? Nope. Swofford and his successors will do what they want to do (The Domers being allowed into the ACC was Johnny Boy's doing) and this was just another "dog whistle" for the other schools to get in line because of the tyranny of geography and prestige. Miami and GT won't apply for the somewhat near Big 12 or SEC because of academic prestige and BC, Syracuse, and Pitt don't add value (read cable subscribers) to the BIG. FSU and L'ville (who Swofford bone-headedly added) have no academic worries, but are blocked by their fellow state school rivals from the SEC and the Big 12 featues such glorious matchups against Kansas and TTU. Finally, let's not forget Swofford's doomsday device: The member schools Granting of Rights to the ACC has for Tier 1 and 2 television rights, the Singularly Assured Destruction (SAD) concept which will keep them ruled by Swofford and his successors in perpetuity.
 
We just have to get back in it. I mean it was 10+ years to get in the first time.
 
Should be rotated between Carolina, Florida and Cuse with the dome. Sucks that the SEC has Georgia sewn up because that would be another nice venue. I guess we need another issue to move the game like the transgender bathroom issue moved it so easily to Orlando
 
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There are 4 conference teams located in NC and the conference headquarters are there as well. It's not shocking.

Wouldn't mind seeing it played somewhere different each year.
 
I'm surprised they're not playing it in South Bend even though ND isn't a football member
 
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