ACC Realignment?

I also like the idea of playing NC State every year. And I guess Virginia Tech or Virginia would be our non-divisional rivalry game.
 
Anything that gets VT out of our division is a good thing in my book.
 
BuzzMD said:
Won't put Miami and FSU in same region -- the ACC officials still have the disillusional dream about an ACC championship of Miami vs FSU being the end all be all.
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Yeah, that's their hang-up, which is lame. Sounds lovely, but it's never happened. Although, I bet the Big XII wishes Texas and Oklahoma were in different divisions this past season.
 
Though most of this has been hashed already
bellyseries said:
I looked at the UNC board (thanks ncjacket) and thought it about like ours. But they did have a discussion of ACC realignment (based on this article http://acc.starnewsonline.com/default.asp?item=2344686) the likes of which I don't remember seeing here.
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I still love the idea, so here's some more fuel...

Google search on 'ACC realignment' returns several links, one of which is an eggles chat board, which has a great thread discussing the topic written 3/10/09.
http://www.bcinterruption.com/2009/03/headlines-acc-realignment.html

The short version of their proposed realignment is below. The thing I liked most about theirs is that they included ACC winning % in parentheses for each team. Their argument is that the conferences would be balanced by the numbers even though most agree the South appears tougher in overall perception / reputation of the programs.

Note too that their split is purely geographic, splitting puke into the north.

ACC North
Virginia Tech (.781)
Boston College (.656)
Wake Forest (.563)
Virginia (.500)
Maryland (.469)
Duke (.031)

ACC South
Georgia Tech (.656)
Clemson (.563)
Florida State (.531)
Miami (FL) (.469)
North Carolina (.406)
NC State (.375)

Particularly if Butch Davis and Tom O'Brien continue their upward trending with the tearholes and wolfpucks, I'll put that ACC South up against any other division in college football.

In other threads, some have argued that a tougher conference means a smaller chance we survive to reach the MNC game, let alone win it. Though I agree with that, I'm still for it. Others have argued they'd rather have an exciting season than an easy road to the MNC. I disagree with that. You don't play to have an exciting competition (is dave braine using an alias on this board?), you play to win. That said, you still want the best teams, at full strength, and your best beats their best. No excuses.

It's SO much better to tell them "we beat your #1 QB and RB in your house on senior day... so shut up and make my fries."
 
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