We used to be forward-looking. Personally, I thought we hit a home run in '92 with FSU, and then '04 and Miami and VPI. After we added Miami, which I think was announced in 2003, right after they'd played for a national title and only a few years after VPI had played for a national title, I was convinced back then that the ACC was going to be the best power conference.
Then, Miami fell apart, and FSU also fell apart at the same time.
As a conference, we were a national non-factor until FSU in 2013.
I think sometimes our conference made moves that seemed to be very smart. I thought getting Notre Dame locked into 5-games per year with the ACC was a great thing, too. But adding programs like Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Louisville...to me, that's when we started adding numbers without adding value.