Post by EvilVodka on Dec 22, 2023 14:23:42 GMT
Initially, Miami FL and Virginia Tech were good additions back in 2004.
Boston College? and later Pitt and Syracuse? The northeast has always had a problem producing top-notch football programs. Besides most of the area up there being shadowed by numerous professional teams, the only football school that has elite success is Penn State. The NE is a weak spot in the overall map of college football.
The ACC should have gone west towards Texas. Football first schools in good markets and excellent recruiting I think would have provided the ACC with better football inventory. TCU would have been a great addition. Hell, even looking back on the last 20 years, I think Oklahoma State and Kansas State are better football additions than most of the ACC.
West Virginia might have cured some of the lackluster enthusiasm of the Pitt fanbase.
Boston College and Syracuse just haven't done much for the ACC. Syracuse just got blown out by South Florida last night
They ended up adding more to the bottom and middle than to the top
The other mistake I think was adding Notre Dame as a partial. Notre Dame really could have saved the ACC. They were even given a conference schedule during Covid.
How has Notre Dame handled all of the speculation about the ACC splitting over the last 2 years? silence
What a selfish school ND has been...they behave more like a leech or parasite than an active conference member
So, who knows if it would have made a difference. But imagine West Virginia and TCU in the ACC instead of Boston College and Syracuse. What about West Virginia, TCU, Houston, Kansas, K-State, and Oklahoma State instead of BC, Syracuse, and Pitt?
Texas has always been a key component of expansion, and the NE has always been a deathtrap
