I really am curious about the metric you used in your claim the 2018 ACC "worst in a decade." Why worst, or decade? Do you mean exactly 10 years, or is the whole thing kind of a typical football message board poster blowing off steam? (My wife's theory is that the boards bleed a lot of aggression out of men and among the benefits is we drive slower. Don't ask me. Sam rationale as the board sometimes. To be sure I agree the ACC was down in 2018. Who thought going in that FSU and VT would fall off the cliff, or that Miami would revert to, well, Miami? Or that Louisville and UNC would win one conference game between them? (Note to board, by the way: Brown for Fedora is bad for GT and the rest of the division. They have guaranteed him money for a staff, and he will nail down a superior group. And Fedora made himself a state punch line.) I grant it was weak, but it has been weaker within the last 10 years. What surprised me was that supposedly good coaches/recruiters were hired at FSU, VT, Virginia, Miami, and all of them collapsed in '18. But we should assume most of those programs will be back in 2019, so all this talking about close losses and bad breaks in 2018 needs to go away pretty quickly. Scores count and that's that.
