If you could remove two schools from the ACC and add two to replace them, who would you choose and why?

I would remove Maryland & Boston College and add Louisville and University of Kentucky.

I think Boston College was a bad choice to ever join the ACC due its extreme distance from the other schools in the conference. With the higher travel costs and the amount of time needed for BC to come to any of the other schools, and vice versa, I think it would be wiser if they were a part of another conference.

Maryland has always been that "other" school - meaning we never could pair it up with any of the other schools. Our "pairs" are UVA/VT, the 4 NC based schools, GT/CU, UMiami/FSU. (oh, and I HATE MARYLAND)

Adding Louisville and UK would give us another great pair, another great in-state rivalry, and even more challenging games in both Football & Basketball.

3/26/2008 10:03:00 PM

add: Davidson

3/26/2008 10:03:21 PM

id remove you from sports talk

3/26/2008 10:03:30 PM

I'd only remove either Maryland or BC and add in South Carolina.

Would help us become a better football conference, and would add the Clemson/SC rivalry to the ACC.

3/26/2008 10:08:20 PM

i'd dissolve Duke's football program and Florida State's basketball program

3/26/2008 10:11:57 PM

id remove nc state's basketball

and potentially their football

3/26/2008 10:13:33 PM

I'd take us out. Maybe we could actually compete in another conference.

3/26/2008 10:15:36 PM

this thread is already full of stupid

3/26/2008 10:16:09 PM

^^ & ^^^ you can't take State out. We started the ACC.

BC is just too far away.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 10:17 PM. Reason : ^2]

3/26/2008 10:17:32 PM

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"Maryland has always been that "other" school "

You mean that "other" school that was a "founding member of the ACC."

3/26/2008 10:19:52 PM

remove bc for sure.

maybe add wvu. they have quality athletics lately, but it's a piss poor institution.

3/26/2008 10:20:13 PM

Did they recently move the state of West Virginia closer to the Altantic ocean?

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I didn't actually read all of the first post before responding. But JESUS CHRIST. You think Kentucky would leave the SEC? Georgia Tech is "paired" with Clemson? You people.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 10:24 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2008 10:21:32 PM

BC out. Add UF (to get all the big 3 florida schools), UGA (to turn Clean, Old Fashioned Hate into a conference game), South Carolina (turn The Battle for the Palmetto State into a conference game and reclaim an original member), WVU (bring back the Black Diamond Trophy rivalry with VaTech, along with rivalries with UMD and UVA), and either Penn State or Pitt (Pitt would be good for a rivalry with WVU and they do have good basketball) for a 16 team mega conference.

[Edited on March 26, 2008 at 10:25 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2008 10:24:16 PM

How about remove BC, Miami, and Virginia Tech to get our basketball conference round robin back....

3/26/2008 10:49:07 PM

Kentucky is not on the Atlantic coast!

3/26/2008 10:51:47 PM

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"How about remove BC, Miami, and Virginia Tech to get our basketball conference round robin back...."

3/26/2008 10:54:40 PM

I like it the way it is

academically it's a solid collection of east coast schools, a step above the big east and sec in that regard

3/26/2008 10:54:41 PM

add: arizona state

3/26/2008 11:01:25 PM

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"you can't take State out. We started the ACC. "

Yeah but get of Maryland for sure, dumb fuckers.

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"How about remove BC, Miami, and Virginia Tech to get our basketball conference round robin back...."

The smartest thing anyone said in this thread.

I'd dump the two distance extremes in Miami and BC and replace them with UGA and USC (Gamecocks, not Trojans).

3/26/2008 11:05:54 PM

While I would like to see the USC/Clemson rivalry as part of the conference, USC would not be a good replacement. Bottom line, there would be no benefit to the conference to have USC return.

3/26/2008 11:48:39 PM

- maryland and miami

+ Tennessee and South Carolina

3/27/2008 12:32:56 AM

- BC
+ WVU or SC

3/27/2008 12:36:08 AM

ATLANTIC COAST Conference











[Edited on March 27, 2008 at 12:47 AM. Reason : ]

3/27/2008 12:47:17 AM

Why does everyone want SC back?

And LOL at UT leaving the SEC. Best football conference to ACC, yeah right.

3/27/2008 12:54:46 AM

U Hawaii add

3/27/2008 12:55:44 AM

^^^ Someone needs to tell Arizona and Arizona State to GIT OUT of the Pac 10.

Also Notre Dame and Marquette to GIT OUT of the Big East.

3/27/2008 1:00:21 AM

taking out maryland is one of the dumbest things I've ever read

3/27/2008 1:10:27 AM

please to start a conference of just NC schools. We call it the Mid-Atlantic State Between Virginia and South Carolina Conference, or for you lazy people the MASBVSC.

This thread is full of stupid. It isn't even interesting to discuss.

3/27/2008 1:26:29 AM

take out BC and add georgetown. that would give maryland an instate rival and add another basketball power to the conference

3/27/2008 5:39:37 AM

They play D-II football.

3/27/2008 5:42:37 AM

so do dook, unc, and state. whats your point?

3/27/2008 5:43:24 AM

BOOYOW

3/27/2008 5:44:27 AM

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"I'd take us out. Maybe we could actually compete in another conference."

unless that conference was in division 2 then I doubt it

3/27/2008 6:42:08 AM

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"and even more challenging games in both Football & Basketball."

speaking as nc state students on the nc state message board WE DON'T SEEM TO NEED ANYTHING MORE CHALLENGING RIGHT NOW

3/27/2008 6:55:34 AM

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"ake out BC and add georgetown. that would give maryland an instate rival and add another basketball power to the conference"

I like that idea.

3/27/2008 7:09:11 AM

Take out BC and Wake Forest, put in South Carolina and Georgia. I really have no explanation for the move...but I think South Carolina has always belonged in the ACC and I couldn't think of another team to take out so I picked on the little private school in Winston Salem.

3/27/2008 7:16:57 AM

take out BC and Maryland and add SC and Georgia. everyone has an in conference, in state rival.

3/27/2008 7:29:34 AM

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"there would be no benefit to the conference to have USC return."

well, for one, ncstate wouldnt have finished last in bball this year.

3/27/2008 7:35:12 AM

its ok the way it is, was better pre-BC, VT, and UM

3/27/2008 7:39:06 AM

Delete Boston College and Maryland

Add South Carolina and Tennessee (In a dream world)

3/27/2008 7:43:21 AM

Delete BC and Miami. BC give nothing to the conference, the city only cares about professional sports, and there's no point to having a lone northeastern school, that's what the Big East is for. Miami was brought in solely for football and they have not delivered. They have no fans unless they're challenging for the national championship.

There's really no one worth adding that would come. South Carolina would be the most logical but they'd be stupid to leave the SEC for the ACC. Ditto for other schools in our geographic zone such as Florida and Georgia.

So just leave it at ten teams.

Although if we could do sport-specific switches, jettison Duke to C-USA for football and replace them with East Carolina...which will never happen, but neither will anything else in this thread.


[Edited on March 27, 2008 at 8:11 AM. Reason : /]

3/27/2008 8:07:24 AM

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"well, for one, ncstate wouldnt have finished last in bball this year."

I'm really not so sure about this...

3/27/2008 8:17:23 AM

If davidson and charlotte would develope football programs they'd fit right in... and give dook someone to beat in football (maybe)

3/27/2008 8:41:12 AM

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"I think Boston College was a bad choice to ever join the ACC due its extreme distance from the other schools in the conference. With the higher travel costs and the amount of time needed for BC to come to any of the other schools, and vice versa, I think it would be wiser if they were a part of another conference."

using that logic you'd take out miami as well considering they take exactly the same time to travel to.

not maryland, despite their awful fans.

this thread is all kinds of fail

3/27/2008 8:45:40 AM

Add Georgia and South Carolina and get rid of BC.

3/27/2008 8:49:39 AM

^^^Davidson has a D-1 football team and they play in the Pioneer League with Valpo, Drake, Campbell, etc. They don't offer scholarships for football, which hurts them for football. In 2000, Davidson went undefeated ending the season 10-0 with a 41-17 victory over Georgetown @ Davidson



[Edited on March 27, 2008 at 8:52 AM. Reason : another ^]

3/27/2008 8:52:00 AM

delete BC and add UNC-Pembroke!! Look what they did to Clemson!!!! (well not really)

3/27/2008 8:55:50 AM

id add app state and ecu

and take out boston college and maryland

3/27/2008 9:33:54 AM

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"add georgetown. that would give maryland an instate rival"

Do you people even think before you post? Georgetown is in D.C., Maryland is in...um Maryland

3/27/2008 9:41:09 AM

wouldn't remove any. would add UConn and Syracuse

3/27/2008 9:42:18 AM