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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 288672, member: 780"]
Some more history:
 
 
The ACC needed a 7-2 super-majority to expand to include the schools that were originally selected  (Miami, Syracuse and BC)
Duke and UNC were against expansion... period.
 
The other 7 schools were for it. Until, the Gov. of VA, Warner, got pressure from VaTech. He then forced UVA to block ANY expansion (including just Miami) unless it included VT. They conference acquiesced and agreed to include VT in place of Syracuse. That was brought to a vote (again with Duke and UNC against).
 
 Then in a totally unexpected move, Mary Ann Fox, the Pres of NCSU, switched NCSU's vote to “no”. She would only agree to Miami and VT and demanded that the ACC explore more options than just BC for the 12th spot.
 
Maryanne Fox was on the Board of Notre Dame. Based on Fox’s input the ACC immediately reached out to ND. They quickly realized that ND only was willing to do an “affiliation” in FB (4 games a year) and not Conference membership.  They then came back to BC and brought BC in.
 
Mary Ann Fox thereafter did her best Rosanne Rosannadanna "Never mind" and hasn't been heard of since in the Conference expansion discussion.
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