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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 887472, member: 874"]
I hope your right.  Here are the obstacles we have to overcome to establish good rivalries:
1.  Both teams have to be good often enough for the games to matter.
2.  They have to play often, preferably twice per year.
 
The only consistently good teams in the ACC over the last decade or two have been Duke and UNC.  They will never be our rival.  No matter how much we grow to hate them or enjoy beating them, the feelings will never be mutual.
 
That probably leaves Pitt or Louisville as our best chance.  We already dislike both.  But despite both teams being arguably better than G-town recently, who drew bigger crowds to the Dome?  Georgetown.  Why?  Because we still hated them more because of what had been established by numerous big games over time.  Will the ACC, as it's constructed, allow for that same thing to happen naturally?  Who knows?  I tend to think not, because we won't be guaranteed to play them often enough.  The only reason there are assigned "rivals" is so that they could find a way to allow Duke and UNC to play twice every year.  That's the only established rivalry in the league, and it's the only one they care about.
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