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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 741792, member: 1145"] I have been talking for years about the sea change that came over college football beginning in the late 1950s and set rather firmly by the mid-60s, and the 2-platoon system is the only connecting rod. Before that, all kinds of private schools that afterwards began to struggle were at least regional powers: Dook, Rice, Tulane, SMU, TCU were some of the schools that fell off the map and settled far down the totem pole. I think Pitt was still a fully private school when the 2-platoon fall was completed. Pitt was bad until Johnny Majors revived the program. Some state schools that also found it very difficult to recruit for 2 platoon football also declined precipitously. Minnesota might be the best example. I think that some basic sense of what has happened to private schools underlies the widespread Big Ten fan assumption that ACC football is doomed to utter failure at some point. [/QUOTE]