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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 4671100, member: 874"] The ACC has existed since 1953. The only rivalry that anyone has really cared about has been Duke/UNC. If rivalries came about easily, there would be more. We were fortunate to have SU/Georgetown for a while. It's too bad it couldn't last. We'll probaby never have anything like it again. Pitt and Louisville were never rivalries the way Georgetown and later UConn were, even under Dixon and Pitino. Think about it. Kentucky has been a blue blood for forever. Who is their heated rival? Nobody. Other schools in the SEC are happy when they beat them but there's nobody Kentucky hates enough to be a great rivalry. It's the same with UCLA. Rivalries are hard to establish. There have to be two teams that are really good for a sustained period of time that play frequent meaningful games with something on the line, and they have to take turns taking something away from each other. That's a lot of stars aligning. [/QUOTE]