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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5102725, member: 1145"]
UVA agreed to leave independance to join the 7 schools that had been in the SoCon to late to play in the first football season, but UVA was a charter member.

I'll bet you know absolutely nothing about SoCar leaving the ACC. Nor do you know that SoCar long had used its powers in SC state government to force Clemson to play football games vs SoCar in Columbia. The ACC putting a stop to that was SoCar's first furious hatred for the ACC.

The first fault of the ACC was indeed having 4 NC schools, rather than taking VPI (VT). The second great default was not in adding GT as soon as Bobby Dodd realized that independence was killing GT athletics, which was 1969. VT rather than Wake and then GT as #9 would have meant at last half the SoCar wild eyed complaints would have never amounted to anything, which means SoCar would not have left. With SoCar still in the ACC and GT added a decade earlier, FSU also would have been added at least a half decayed before it was added. That 10 team ACC could have wooed PSU. And then all college athletics would have been different.

What you will not get at all is that Wake was added because it also was founded in what we today call the Research Triangle: the town of Wake Forest is in Wake County, just like Raleigh. Wake in the ACC was local schools taking care of each other.

You really think the BT is ever going to sniff BC? Or Pitt? Or Syracuse? Well, it might take 1 of that trio if, and only if, ND demands it to join and PSU agrees.
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