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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 280627, member: 1145"]
ACC Presidents will defer to the Commissioner on matters like whether it is better to have only conference champs in a 4 team playoff. He will certainly hear what everybody has to say, but he will develop a plan and implement it. 
 
Swofford has a long range plan to get ND to join, and part of it includes closer ties with the SEC. If, for example, we eventually get to something like the Pac-Big Ten deal to have every league team play 1 game annually against a team in the allied conference, then ND as an ACC member could use that to play in Texas (say in the Jerry Jones Dome against either A&M or Arkansas) or in St. Louis (against Mizzou) or in the Super Dome (against LSU or Bama). 
 
UNC has wasted Top 10 talent in the Davis years - see all the NFL players produced. So if Fedora is like the young Mack Brown, whose final 2 UNC teams were Top 5, then UNC can se a big rise before long. Fedora inherits more talent than Mack did, and Fedora is more experienced as HC than Mack was when came to Chapel Hill. Clemson has had Top 10 talent many times the past 20 years and choked it away. If Dabo can learn from his mistakes, Clemson can be Top 10 this year. Beamer's teams tend to overachieve a little based on available talent, but blow 1 or 2 games it should have won every year. If the Hokies can stop losing games they should win and stop losing 1 big OOC game badly each year, VT can be a Top 5 team.
 
Pitt sits surrounded by talent. If ACC membership and new HC Chryst mean that Pitt starts recruiting PA and adjacent OH better, and if Chryst needs little time to learn on the job, Pitt can be a Top 10 team. 
 
We are not that far off.
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