As for us being in the SEC ...
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With the conference as big and widespread as it is now, there is no narrow nexus of power now and the historical modus operandi has gone by the board. But it's all academic. The only way we will ever be in the ACC again is if we are placed there as part of a four or five super-conference structure that defines college athletics' largest division in the future..
I believe the name was Isaac Jackson, but the same concerns could have been applied to Freddie Soloman. They could not have been admitted here using ACC admission standards in place at the beginning of the 1970s. But all of that was soon to change when the NCAA adopted uniform test score and GPA standards (achieved while taking a core curriculum) for admission, as well as scholarship limitations for all Division One schools.
rest assured everythin' still goes thru greensboro.............always has, always will.......chapel hill, durham & raleigh the proverbial devils triangle
The Tobacco Road hegemony has been greatly diminished. Plus, three of those schools literally hate each other.
they always have hated each other.............& the league office remains in greensboro
It has to be someplace. That it is in Greensboro is of no more account than the SEC office being in Birmingham.
We will never play for a NC while in the SEC. I cringe every time I hear fans chanting SEC SEC....although...it really is the only thing we can hang our hat on historically (playing in the hardest football conf) other than the 3 good Spurrier years. At some point reality sits in and we just become great Cock fans. Good or bad.....screw the fairweather fans!
We're like the welfare program of the SEC. sit on our butt and get paid while everyone else does the hard work.
Vandy?
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Correct. Even now, the ACC we left no longer exists.
I'd still like to schedule more of our old ACC rivals in as many sports as is feasible. For me, Maryland counts as such a rival while Georgia Tech and VPI do not, even though I'd like to see the Hokie Gobblers and Yellow Jackets show up on schedules as well.
Glad Frank II has UVA on the schedule this year as a regular season, non-tournament game. Long time coming - it should have happened 45 years ago for the first time instead of 2018.
If you couldn't score at least a 900 on the old SAT, maybe college wasn't for you.
Each locale is still the center of the respective league's geographic footprint.
"geographic footprint"....................let me guess, u skipped geography class more than once?
I think all you needed was 800. But the ACC limited football scholarships to 40 per year when SEC schools were signing 90 and then weeding them out. But NCAA action leveled the playing field almost as soon as we left the ACC.
I think most are just tired of losing especially in football and somewhat in basketball. That just has to change otherwise we are just in it for the money and not wisely investing it to win. I'm not against Ray but Hyman and McGee were pretty tough cookies. Coaches knew they had to win. Got to look at these high paid coaches and say, "Here's everything you need. Now go win"
Not the same. That was the culmination of putting ourselves in a position we had built towards, and were prepared to continue. How long have we been in the SEC? 26 years? How many times have we won that? And have we placed ourselves in the top position for success in any way? We are always trying to catch up. We're building a football facility right now that will be second best in our own state - inferior to that of an ACC team we used to be ahead of in facilities. How have we been in the SEC this long and pulled off such a feat?
Again, I know. I had two years of Latin in high school. Use alum for both sexes as it seems simpler and easier, and have observed from reading the posts that most do not have a clue about alumnus, alumna, alumni, alumnae, etc., and don’t seem to care anyway.
J. Samuel Walker addresses the "800 rule" in his ACC Basketball book as well.
It was the 90 and weeding out which disturbed Bobby Dodd enough to convince the Georgia Tech administration to leave the SEC.
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Okay Earle, assuming that I am geographically challenged, where, in your opinion, are the geographic centers of the SEC & ACC?
it ain't greensboro, maybe south of the border where u can also pic up some fireworks.........uknow fireworks.....somethin' like u'd find @ the cheetah
Geographic center of the ACC is Reidsville, NC. For the SEC it is Hatley, MS.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...of-conference-tournament-locations-in-6-maps/
reidsville was my ole bbq stops on old 29 near danville........................ i don't wanna c hadly, looks like a wrong left turn outta tupelo
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