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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5425236, member: 722"]
It certainly isn’t a determination of conference quality next year, but the ACC has had a lot of quality talent transfer into the conference for the upcoming season.

The ACC also did very well in high school recruiting, with 5 of the top 10 high school recruiting classes, and 9 in the top 35. (247 sports) Overall, the 247 newcomer rankings has 9 ACC teams in the top40 when combining the two talent sources. There are other ranking sources that agree the ACC has done well, even if they disagree about the exact rankings.

Maybe the strength of the SEC NIL last season surprised the ACC conference collectively, the ability to pay players directly from the university leveled the playing field, or for whatever other reason, but the ACC was terrible last season.

But whatever caused it, the conference seems to have come back very strong with both high school and transfer recruiting this season.

My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that a lot of very rich boosters throughout the ACC were embarrassed about the results last season, and opened up their wallets. It has been very strongly implied by knowledgeable posters here that the Syracuse boosters did exactly that, and the extra money had made a big difference in Red’s “recruiting” ability.

In short, ranking of talent is imprecise, and coaching, chemistry and every other factor determining team quality still has to come into play… But the ACC at least did a good job bringing in talent this off-season, and that is at least half the way to a good team.

I expect the ACC to be much better this season.
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