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Optimum words, “down the road.”

Again, you put a lot on the table to contemplate. I certainly can agree that if Tech becomes a top 10 team much of our bellyaching will vanish. We have no solid proof yet that NIL and the portal are going to catapult us into the elites of college ball. I still actually want my athletes to...

NBA scouts, I imagine, are pretty level headed and no-nonsense, but are there people / agents acting on behalf of different players to try to “sell” them on ability and potential? Just trying to figure out the “monster game” comment.

You not only hear me, you are getting close to understanding me. I never said the slippery slope just started for me. Perhaps it has for others, I don’t know. I too was aware of the “mercenaries” starting to infiltrate in previous decades. My hope at that time was that it would not continue...

They get credit for being the “flag ship” of North Carolina. They’ve been getting invitations to bowl games since before I was born for that reason alone.

Gee, I kind of enjoyed it when Yale came to Harvard. It had flavor. Kind of like when you stumble onto one of those European folk festivals that’s been in the same village for 500 years. I don’t know what I want either but I can picture a dystopian future that I will have no interest in.

I tend to watch one or two streaming services because the others are inferior. But I would gladly watch more services if the others showed improvement. When it comes to entertainment it is not a zero sum game in my opinion. So market share does not necessarily mean one product gaining is...

What is the size of that area now, 47 counties? 😂

You might as well drop the mic after this truth bomb. Continually amazes me that fans can construct a more cogent argument than ACC leadership. Meanwhile, over in the SEC, the fans, ESPN talking heads, and game day production crews, all perfectly reflect the talking points laid out by...

Yes, repeating again, the SEC was vociferous and forceful saying no matter what happens in the coming conference championships “you better include at least one SEC team in the playoff or else.”

I think you have nailed the slippery slope. Some of us are finding our interest in college football is inversely related to the degree it becomes professionalized. My understanding is that colleges bringing in “ringers” to bolster their teams was a thing early in the game. Rules were...

Inoculate yourself from the pain.

Your comments are clarifying and I don’t entirely disagree. Slight quibble, might be semantics, King certainly made a “business decision” to come to Tech, and there’s no shame in that, but I bet there is something about the Tech culture that also helped sell him. That is what some of us mean...

And that it was just one big orgy of eliteness with all those elite opponents playing against an elite coach with an elite team on an elite field.

Yep, there is no, “We try harder” in their marketing. 😊

Market size is huge. Would not argue otherwise. But whether your market is large or small you need a sales plan. ACC never seemed to get around to that.

And that really is an elite atmosphere, before the word elite became a dirty word.

Oh, but now that they have the mighty CGC, they are all set for a championship season.

Agree completely and have said for years that the ACC failed at hyping itself the way the SEC does. FSU, being left out of thevplayoffs, something the committee telegraphed might happen even before the QB injury, tells me the ship has sailed on the ACC being able to hype itself into...

I don’t begrudge anyone enjoying playing Duke. That’s a good thing. It’s clearly my issue. I just don’t think trading them for a new set of conference rivals would cause that much of a loss of interest. Would local Illinois fans in the stadium, for instance, more than make up for losing Duke...