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[QUOTE="SmilinBob, post: 5282906, member: 857"]
I agree with a lot of what you and Bob said as well.  I'd like to add a few things and see what y'all think.

A few things about the ACC that are different than the SEC/Big10.  The ACC schedules home and homes with smaller conference schools which is often taboo with the SEC/Big10 and these are often trap games with little upside.   Can't lose to the preverbal directional school.

The SEC/Big 10 have huge state schools which are consumers and dollars for networks and the like.  That bring$ a perspective that can be slanted towards those teams and also it's a way to "educate" the neutral viewer, like pushing the chefs special at a restaurant for the undecided/casual patron.

Alumni that are the people talking and pushing a perspective and narrative like they do in politics on networks and the like.  There is a extreme bias here and it's incredibly difficult to listen to "experts" when their narrative is slanted.

The phallic issue and big stadiums.  I used to battle post on rivals and this was something often brought up.  The disrespect for smaller stadiums and using that to determine what is a "real" football program and what is not considered "serious" about football.  That goes with facilities as well.  this isn't just a fan thing as players as well do this and we did see this in basketball when we filled the Dome with 30k, it's a heck of a selling point.  Passion helps and SU fans do help with that with noise in football but overall the conference lacks in this.
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