Originally Posted by
Indoor66
I agree with this whole post but especially the quoted sentence. The schools added little to the league and diluted its character.
But assured its existence. The eight or nine-team ACC would be out of business today as a major conference. More schools and larger viewer footprints were necessary for the massive TV contracts. Were the media companies wrong to focus on "number of schools" and "footprints" -- possibly, but they were the ones handing out the moola.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013