I'll admit there may actually be some legs to Travis' implication that the ACC added Syracuse and Pitt because of an inevitable departure of two teams to the SEC. I think it would've been smarter for them to take West Virginia as ACC football could use the help. If we're going to expand and we're going to do it right, pulling out all the stops to get North Carolina here should be priority one. As I've been saying since Day 1 of this whole expansion thing, we're not going to go out and get Florida State, Clemson, bring back Georgia Tech, etc. It will be either Virginia or Virginia Tech, and one of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, and Wake Forest. Duke and Wake Forest are pretty much 0% chance. We have a much better shot at getting VT than we do UVA. VT fits in with us and it wasn't so long ago that they were apart of the Big East, so they're clearly willing to move in a way that grants them upward mobility. However, they'd also be losing that easy road to the BCS. UVA's a great school, one of the most beautiful campuses I've ever set foot on, would add to our academics, and would give Ole Miss fans someone to talk about "gameday fashion" with. Between UNC and NC State....NC State is a campus in the middle of a city. I didn't think it was great to look at. Reminds me of Cincinnati's campus. They'd be a middle of the road addition in all aspects. UNC however is where the fan base is, the prestige, and of course, the money. A full on assault should be made to get them to join us. Wouldn't be terribly hard to convince them to play Duke once a year and us twice instead of vice versa as it currently stands. Lord knows the UK-UNC games the past couple of seasons have been infinitely more interesting than the Duke-UNC games.
"Johnny, we're going to kick your ass today." -UK Coach Fran Curci to UT Coach Johnny Majors before Curci's last game.Final score....UK 21 - UT 10
dcbl, on 28 January 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:
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