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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 289824, member: 628"]
... is that by and large it is totally under it's own control.  
 
If we assume that the league doesn't suffer any defections, then what we're left with is a conference that is a clear (and deserved) #5 on the major conference pecking order. But that perception can change relatively quickly with improved on-field performance.  Not every league can say that.  The Big East is always going to be perceived as an also-ran, even if, say a Boise State, goes 12-0.  It's a structural flaw in the conference.
 
I mean if the ACC was in it's looming 14 team configuration in the 1990s it would have been viewed as one of the pre-eminent football conferences in the nation, given the tremendous success of FSU and Miami, along with the top-25 caliber quality depth of programs like Syracuse, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Virginia Teach, Virginia, etc.
 
The ACC hasn't fared too well the past decade, but I don't think that there is anything institutional about that. There's no endemic reason why FSU and Miami can't become top 10 programs again, or why another 4-6 programs can't be solid top 25 finishers on an annual basis. Schools in this conference just have to [I]do[/I] it.
 
And if they don't, what can you do?
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