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Message: [QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 4560972, member: 39"] I don’t buy the ACC thing… in the slightest. It changed recruiting, certainly. You couldn’t sell the road games to Philly or NYC you could in the BE. But you sure could sell a different competitive environment and playing against top teams. Different, more competitive against top teams, but the shift to the ACC should not have caused recruiting to fall off a cliff. You know as well as any that the move to the ACC coincided with the sanctions, which hurt but also would not have been a killer if not for the… shall we say… change in recruiting strategy from the HC, which was the biggest piece that changed the dynamic. Virginia is not a blue blood. Virginia Tech has stunk historically. Miami too. You can say we are an outlier in the league but we have the most history of anyone outside the top 2, have resources comparable, and have a fairly rich talent pool to work from (unlike football). [/QUOTE]