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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 779406, member: 628"] I suspect that Gross preferred the Atlantic because it originally enabled us to maintain three annual northeast games: BC, Maryland, and Pitt as our permanent division cross-over. Would have kept us in front of two big alumni bases (Boston, D.C. metro) every other year. If the trade-off was having the most northeastern opponents possible vs. having our premium opponents be FSU and Clemson instead of returning to Miami and VaTech, I think that's defensible. Obviously that calculus changed when Maryland bolted. The Coastal would have had the advantage of renewing those great series with Miami/VaTech and facilitating easier/more attractive trips (in terms of location) to UNC, UVA and GaTech as opposed to NC State, Wake and Louisville. But what can you do, I'll take the Atlantic 1,000,000X + infinity over the AAC. [/QUOTE]