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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 3917558, member: 628"] Yep. And the notion that the ACC hasn’t been focused on football during expansion is false. While they didn’t necessarily set our to add VaTech in 2003, that pivot certainly helped football far more than hoops. I’ve told this tale here before, but the addition of Pitt in 2011 was entirely a football driven move. The ACC would have added UConn if they solely prioritized hoops, but the football-dominant schools did not want UConn. They preferred adding Pitt for their football history and access to recruit-rich western PA. And the conference made a similar choice two years later when they took Louisville. Since hoops was largely a wash, they chose the upside of UL football over the dead-end UConn football program. [/QUOTE]