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[QUOTE="atom58, post: 4773284, member: 5312"]
Those folks want to go back to the regional ACC prior to 1990 when with some difficulty FSU was admitted. You may not know this but several schools (Duke was one, maybe UNC or Wake another) voted against the move initially but later the conference made the vote unanimous as it would insure its survival against the SEC. The SEC would have admitted FSU but Bowden saw an easier path to the NC and basketball $$$ at that time was greater than FB $$$. The SEC was severely pi**ed as they thought they would put FSU in the SE conference and then "shut them up". We (and Miami) were making too much noise in the SE. UF stopped playing Miami supposedly because of the difficulty of their SEC schedule. The real reason is that Miami was beating them like a drum. I always heard that UF, UGa, Kentucky, and S Carolina had a pact to vote against FSU, Ga Tech, UL, and Clemson. They don't need them as they are already in those states and they do not want to help their in-state rivals with recruiting or $$$.

That guy you met was living in the past. Those days are gone forever. We have arrived at 1959's "Airplane Conference" idea.
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