ACC Discussion 2019

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Boaty1 said:
Watching Florida play both Miami and UVA this year to 1 score games I think the gap between teams like them and Auburn and the ACC is grossly exaggerated.

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Each year we are both in the CFP, both have similar records, bowl teams (10 to 10 this year), and OOC records. Sometimes we’re a little worse, sometimes a little better.

The biggest difference I see is recruiting - the SEC typically has 7 or 8 teams ranked in the top 25. It’s amazing they don’t do any better than they do given that.

For example, Tennessee has averaged a top 15 recruiting class forever. But they’ve gone 12 years since having a 10-win season, and they’ve only had a record over 0.500 in SEC play once over that time.
 

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Each year we are both in the CFP, both have similar records, bowl teams (10 to 10 this year), and OOC records. Sometimes we’re a little worse, sometimes a little better.

The biggest difference I see is recruiting - the SEC typically has 7 or 8 teams ranked in the top 25. It’s amazing they don’t do any better than they do given that.

For example, Tennessee has averaged a top 15 recruiting class forever. But they’ve gone 12 years since having a 10-win season, and they’ve only had a record over 0.500 in SEC play once over that time.
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An SEC fan would say if a team like Tennesse is in another conference they would be one of the best teams. Losses to Ga State and BYU in the non conference make that laughable. One SEC fan told me Miss State would be the second best team in the ACC this year. Then Louisvilke beats them by double digits. The SEC was very good at the top this year and may be again next year. The issue is when people make the gap between them and other conferences more than it is.
 

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An SEC fan would say if a team like Tennesse is in another conference they would be one of the best teams. Losses to Ga State and BYU in the non conference make that laughable. One SEC fan told me Miss State would be the second best team in the ACC this year. Then Louisvilke beats them by double digits. The SEC was very good at the top this year and may be again next year. The issue is when people make the gap between them and other conferences more than it is.
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I heard that crap from a Navy grad about how their conference was just as good as the ACC. I’m like “dude, we went 3-1 head to head this year, and that includes Georgia Tech and NC State who were the 2 bottom teams in the conference.”
 

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After seeing Virginia and UNC play in their bowls, the coastal could shape up to be pretty solid next year. Virginia is a relatively young team, but they’re losing one of the best playmakers in the ACC at QB, and their 2 best receivers. UNC looks like they may have the 2nd best QB in the league behind Clemson, and have been recruiting at a solid pace for the past few seasons. Miami always has the talent to win 10 games a year, but who knows when they’ll actually put it together. Duke and VT will both be down next year, and Pitt and Tech should be pretty average.
 

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JacketOff said:
After seeing Virginia and UNC play in their bowls, the coastal could shape up to be pretty solid next year. Virginia is a relatively young team, but they’re losing one of the best playmakers in the ACC at QB, and their 2 best receivers. UNC looks like they may have the 2nd best QB in the league behind Clemson, and have been recruiting at a solid pace for the past few seasons. Miami always has the talent to win 10 games a year, but who knows when they’ll actually put it together. Duke and VT will both be down next year, and Pitt and Tech should be pretty average.
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I think VT will be good next years. They are a VERY young team. I believe they return 21 of 22 starters.
 

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JacketOff said:
After seeing Virginia and UNC play in their bowls, the coastal could shape up to be pretty solid next year. Virginia is a relatively young team, but they’re losing one of the best playmakers in the ACC at QB, and their 2 best receivers. UNC looks like they may have the 2nd best QB in the league behind Clemson, and have been recruiting at a solid pace for the past few seasons. Miami always has the talent to win 10 games a year, but who knows when they’ll actually put it together. Duke and VT will both be down next year, and Pitt and Tech should be pretty average.
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I expect Duke, UVA, and possibly Pitt to be at the bottom of the Coastal next year. UVA loses at least 9 starters and 11 of their guys in the two deep who are seniors, and I can't imagine the backup qb is nearly as talented, much less experienced as Perkins was. VT should be pretty good if the new d coordinator is decent. Miami probably sucks again because Diaz has no clue what he's doing- could very well be canned end of next season.
 
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Boaty1 said:
Watching Florida play both Miami and UVA this year to 1 score games I think the gap between teams like them and Auburn and the ACC is grossly exaggerated.

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Exactly!
I was watching part of this game and at one point FLA had the ball and made about a 6 yard run and the idiot announcer made a comment that what would have been a 1-2 yard run against a much faster SEC def equaled longer runs vs the ACC.....unbelievable.
 
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Guess this goes here.

Man David Polleck just slammed the ACC when he was on The Dan Patrick show this morning. Patrick was reviewing LSU vs Clemson and Polleck took the time to announce that the ACC is the worst conference in the country. He said nobody respected the conference and that’s why Clemson struggles to get any respect.

On one hand I like it, it’s the stuff that feeds rivalries but on the other this is so lame. It’s like driving with blinders on and thinking the road itself is the prettiest part of the landscape.

Who the hell are Bama, Florida, Ga and LSU playing ? Vanderbilt? South Carolina ? ( who Ga lost to ), Kentucky ? I mean come on. None of the bottom 8 SEC teams could beat Clemson and they would struggle against any other conference on a game to game basis. Plus Clemson has beaten the top SEC team in the big game. So based on that there’s nobody in the SEC that can challenge Clemson, Polleck must have forgotten huh?

Delusional media, another example of the influence they exercise over society. False narratives in the face of ACC NC’s in 2 of 3 years.
 
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