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    Revise the Atlantic Coast Conference

    From my point of view the ACC needs to change. Start Leading! Stop measuring micro markets and running after money and do the right thing.

    College football and basketball will be drastically different within a generation. I think North Carolina and Louisville need to be kicked out of the damn conference.

    Replace them with Army & Navy. In short order the NCAA will be gone. Does the ACC want to become a hood ornament for shoe companies and networks?

    Return to core values. Perhaps membership needs to be predicated on mission, endowment and quality, not the size of the potential TV market.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamHouston View Post
    From my point of view the ACC needs to change. Start Leading! Stop measuring micro markets and running after money and do the right thing.

    College football and basketball will be drastically different within a generation. I think North Carolina and Louisville need to be kicked out of the damn conference.

    Replace them with Army & Navy. In short order the NCAA will be gone. Does the ACC want to become a hood ornament for shoe companies and networks?

    Return to core values. Perhaps membership needs to be predicated on mission, endowment and quality, not the size of the potential TV market.
    Totally agree, but Swofford would have to be booted first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamHouston View Post
    From my point of view the ACC needs to change. Start Leading! Stop measuring micro markets and running after money and do the right thing.

    College football and basketball will be drastically different within a generation. I think North Carolina and Louisville need to be kicked out of the damn conference.

    Replace them with Army & Navy. In short order the NCAA will be gone. Does the ACC want to become a hood ornament for shoe companies and networks?

    Return to core values. Perhaps membership needs to be predicated on mission, endowment and quality, not the size of the potential TV market.
    Come on...why do you want to insult Louisville like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamHouston View Post
    From my point of view the ACC needs to change. Start Leading! Stop measuring micro markets and running after money and do the right thing.

    College football and basketball will be drastically different within a generation. I think North Carolina and Louisville need to be kicked out of the damn conference.

    Replace them with Army & Navy. In short order the NCAA will be gone. Does the ACC want to become a hood ornament for shoe companies and networks?

    Return to core values. Perhaps membership needs to be predicated on mission, endowment and quality, not the size of the potential TV market.
    Well, winning the conference in basketball would certainly get a bit easier.

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    Values? Morals? Honor? Doing the 'right' thing? That is, unfortunately, not the USA we live in today.
    Money, winning, ratings - no matter what. That's what it's all about now.

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    Join Date
    Feb 2007
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    North Carolina
    Quote Originally Posted by arnie View Post
    Totally agree, but Swofford would have to be booted first.
    Wholly agree as well, but I don't think it's a realistic expectation. However, I do think it may be possible to have Swofford removed as ACC commish - unprecendented bad press/infractions during his tenure as commissioner and previously as AD

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    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    I'm afraid i cannot see any scenario in which Duke "stops running after money." It's what we do.

    In terms of reform, I was thinking more in terms of dividing the ACC into two divisions, "Academic" and "Shameless."
    We could put ourselves in the Academic division along with, I dunno, BC, Wake, UVA...we know who gets an automatic bid
    for the Shameless division.

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    Raleigh
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    I'm afraid i cannot see any scenario in which Duke "stops running after money." It's what we do.

    In terms of reform, I was thinking more in terms of dividing the ACC into two divisions, "Academic" and "Shameless."
    We could put ourselves in the Academic division along with, I dunno, BC, Wake, UVA...we know who gets an automatic bid
    for the Shameless division.
    Only one?
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

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