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[QUOTE="atom58, post: 1633535, member: 5312"]
There is really a split between some of the (younger?) people who post on sites like Tomahawk Nation and most of the 80,000 or so (older?) people who actually attend games in Tallahassee. I think most of the latter group are satisfied with ACC membership and realize joining the SEC would likely mean the journey to a national title game would be more difficult. The last two years of bowl game losses for whatever reason tend to bring people back to reality. Also, the faculty would be in an uproar if FSU went to an academically inferior conference. Many of them have degrees from UNC, UVA, Ga Tech, and "Big 10" schools where academics matter. It is after all [I]a university with a football program[/I] not a football team with a university. Bobby Bowden always said that if handled properly (run cleanly), a football program could serve as a positive advertisement for the school and that is what happened following the 1987 season when we defeated Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl and were 2nd to Miami in the AP poll. Both the number of freshman applications and the quality of those applicants soared during that time, and the football program even contributed $1 million to the library.
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