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[QUOTE="Jasoncuse, post: 2034106, member: 470"]
I don't agree with the over the top aspect of the OP, but I can see bball slipping and staying down below the level we've grown accustom to. The ACC should only help the football program, but the basketball program is currently in the middle of a confluence of bad factors...sanctions, coaching questions, poor recruiting, poor results, etc. Maybe it's just all those things, but maybe our move to the ACC has had something to do with our lesser results? With true blue bloods in the conference, something we didn't have to deal with in the BE, we aren't the top dog any more. We can be the 3rd banana, but that's our ceiling. And being so far from the center of the ACC, I sometimes wonder if we're too much of an outsider in this bball league to have consistent elite success. We really need the JB to Hop transition to have immediate and strong on-court success or we do face a lengthy stay in mediocrity. In the BE, we could always rely on being in the middle of some of the best rivalries in college hoops and our recruiting footprint was more a part of the conference footprint.

Hopefully this is all just a really bad stretch, but the results have been trending way down with our performance against power 5+1 programs, in the ACC and overall quality of play. It's a tenuous position to be in with a legendary coach at the end of his coaching line.
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