It's official... The ACC is an abomination of a conference

Perhaps the entire conference takes on the personality of the commissioner, and since John Swofford is a little girl...
 
#1stinga6 said:
That is probably one of the most ignorant statements I have heard in a while. If our conference continues to get man handled by every other major conference we will start to lose bowl games and money, but I can see how it's no big deal and you "could care less":ugh:
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It doesn't bother me if teams in our conference lose every bowl game- it matters to me if we lose.. I am a fan of GT not the teams we play, sure it makes us look good when Duke or CLemson does good but come Sunday morning I could care less what UNC did..If we take care of our own business everything will work it self out{winning OUR games} I can't stand when the Ga fans cheer for other SEC teams to me it does not make sense. I'm sure I'm a minority with this subject, Oh well. Now you can can start your week wondering about what the Carolina schools are going to do against whoever:bowdown:, I'll worry about Tech.
 
btw- ACC has always cared alot more about basketball than football in case you haven't noticed.
 
goose said:
btw- ACC has always cared alot more about basketball than football in case you haven't noticed.
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Actually, slightly more than half prefer football...

Basketball
Duke
UNC
Maryland
Wake
NCSU

Football
FSU
Clemson
GT
VT
Miami
BC
UVA

UVA is a toss-up, but I'll throw them in with football since they suck at both.
 
From Dr. Saturday:
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/blog/dr_saturday/post/Sunday-Morning-Rewind-RIP-ACC?urn=ncaaf,104579
I don't do the "conference wars" thing, but the overwhelming stench of the weekend is the ACC flopping around like a bunch of gasping fish: Alabama routed Atlantic Division favorite Clemson, Coastal Division favorite Virginia Tech was undercut by East Carolina, N.C. State was dead on arrival at South Carolina on Thursday, North Carolina struggled most of the night with McNeese State and Virginia offered even less resistance than expected in rolling over for Southern Cal. It's only wins were over I-AA teams (McNeese, Jacksonville State, Charleston Southern, James Madison, Delaware) or their functional equivalents (Baylor, Kent State).

The question now is, does the conference even have an opportunity for the rest of the season to atone for its terrible start? Assuming Georgia Tech, Florida State and Clemson's closing in-state tangles with the SEC are too late to make a difference in public/media perception, the only opportunities the conference has to make any kind of notable statement outside of its own borders are Virginia Tech's trip to Nebraska, Maryland's game with California, Florida State's game with Colorado in Jacksonville and Boston College's game with Notre Dame, maybe, depending on how good the Huskers, Bears, Buffs and Irish turn out to be. For the record, only Cal, at 7-6, finished with a winning mark among that group last year. With the only possible national contenders already eliminated from the race -- are you going to push Wake Forest? Really? -- the ACC can pack it and hold its fingeres for a miraculous turnaround in its territorial adventures come November.
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Watching ECU-Va Tech in Charlotte was great this weekend - my ECU grad daughter and student son loved it and Hokie fans were pretty shook up after the game. Losing by a blocked punt for TD really burned them.

The next two weeks are huge for us. BC is possibly as good as anyone in the conference on defense. But, they are beatable without Ryan. Va Tech lost three great linebackers and a very good DE last year - their replacments are not of the same quality. Their young RB's are good, not great. They have a big, experienced OL but were so much slower than ECU's front seven. ECU's OL blocked them well in the second half. Get these next two wins and we become a real threat to win our division.

The conference is down, so why not see the bright side and win now. Grobe and Johnson could establish themselves by year's end as the conference's current best coaches.
 
77GTFan said:
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The conference is down, so why not see the bright side and win now. Grobe and Johnson could establish themselves by year's end as the conference's current best coaches.
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There is definitely a crack in the door; but can we get through it? VT's defense is young, and playing them early will be to our advantage.
 
goose said:
It doesn't bother me if teams in our conference lose every bowl game- it matters to me if we lose.. I am a fan of GT not the teams we play, sure it makes us look good when Duke or CLemson does good but come Sunday morning I could care less what UNC did..If we take care of our own business everything will work it self out{winning OUR games} I can't stand when the Ga fans cheer for other SEC teams to me it does not make sense. I'm sure I'm a minority with this subject, Oh well. Now you can can start your week wondering about what the Carolina schools are going to do against whoever:bowdown:, I'll worry about Tech.
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If you are worried about Tech, then you should be worried about the things that affect the Tech program.

The fortune of the of the ACC affects the Tech program in a VERY direct way.

To me it is a moot point as the Chicken Littles on the board and among the media overreact to short term trends. Anyone who has bothered to track the fortunes of the BCS conferences over more than a few seasons using an objective measure knows that EVERY BCS conference has been up and down over the past ten years. It wasn't that long ago people were talking about the weak PAC 10 (and it was true at the time.)

The only way a weak ACC would benefit Tech is if we could pull the stunt Ohio State has managed, to ride a currently weak conference to a MNC game. But that only works when the perception of conference strength lags reality. The voters take time to realize that the Big 10 outside of OSU is weak.

I get your point, but think you are misguided in chiding those who follow the fortune of the ACC as a conference.

Ideally, GT would sit atop a strong ACC and beat a weak UGA for 80% of the time (need a couple of wins on ocassion to keep them hopeful;)). The situation now is less than ideal and it would be nice to see it turn around.
 
I'm totally pleased to be playing in an abomination of a conference for our first major rebuilding year in a decade. It should work out very well for us.

I couldn't have been happier with the results of this weekend. Everyone on our conference schedule is beatable.
 
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