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Great article that a lot of people should read. Especially this part...
May 10, 2024, 10:19 AM
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A BAD TIME FOR A FOOTBALL SLUMP
In any other time in college athletics history, the ACC’s relative football slump in the mid-to-late 2000s might not have mattered as much, in a financial sense. But this was not any other time. This was, to the contrary, a time when football strength, and having attractive football games to sell, as TV inventory, came to matter more than anything. It was the worst time for a conference’s most valuable football brands to enter into prolonged dormancy but that’s what happened, and quickly. FSU during the 2006 season endured a 30-0 home loss against Wake Forest, and became mired in mediocrity in Bobby Bowden’s final seasons. Miami became the nation’s most consistently disappointing program. Virginia Tech, while maintaining its presence in the top 25, was never quite what it was in the early 2000s. Clemson, meanwhile, had not yet elevated its program. And no other ACC school emerged. If the ACC’s first football championship game was a hit, its second — a snoozer of a 9-6 Wake Forest victory against Georgia Tech — was a comparative disaster. Boston College then made the next two league title games after that, losing both to Virginia Tech. With FSU and Miami down, and with nobody else picking up the slack, a national narrative began to take hold: ACC football was weak. A joke. Fair or not, the narrative persisted. It still does, in a way.
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Re: Great article that a lot of people should read. Especially this part...
May 10, 2024, 10:29 AM
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ACC FB has always been weak, with the exception of a couple teams who got tired of carrying the conference. It's an effing basketball conference. ALWAYS has been. And I hope it dies because of that.
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May 10, 2024, 10:42 AM
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Completely Solid Orange ... I was thinking 2023-24 was the first year in I do not know how long that Clemson Basketball outperformed Clemson Football. Surprising. Bad timing for realignment value. And the transfer portal was a factor at some level.
The game vs. UGA looms BIG. If Clemson finds a way to win, Dabo will make a statement and get a high level of redemption in the national media. If UGA wins and if they win big (which I don't expect), Clemson, and especially Dabo will be rocked for not utilizing the transfer portal. And the ACC will take another hit. Clemson needs to be at peak performance for UGA.
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