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<blockquote data-quote="bigrabbit" data-source="post: 1007330" data-attributes="member: 6023"><p>UVA is a minor part of all this speculation, but fwiw, I grew up in Virginia and have family members who went to both vpi and uva, including some really plugged into athletics at vpi.. Between the two, vpi far and away fits the sec “selling your soul for athletics” culture more so than uva. In fact, there has been almost an underlying mistrust of money and sports at uva, like the purity of the uva academic culture depends a bit on losing. Also, while the SWVA area is Hicksville, vpi has dominated NOVA for quite a while, really rabid fans in that large media market. Very insecure bunch, tired of uva looking down on them. I don’t know if vpi and uva are a package deal now - maybe someone knows the state politics on that. Historically uva acted independently and vpi was awful until Beamer came back, maybe that changed with vpi getting better at football and joining the acc.</p><p>I could see unc jumping to sec although unc is, in their heart of hearts, a basketball school (imo). I’ve watched folks breaking down crying in bars on Franklin St watching unc lose a basketball game. Never saw that with football, more like “yeah as usual we suck” in football.</p><p>Maybe none of that matters, just a scramble for $$.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigrabbit, post: 1007330, member: 6023"] UVA is a minor part of all this speculation, but fwiw, I grew up in Virginia and have family members who went to both vpi and uva, including some really plugged into athletics at vpi.. Between the two, vpi far and away fits the sec “selling your soul for athletics” culture more so than uva. In fact, there has been almost an underlying mistrust of money and sports at uva, like the purity of the uva academic culture depends a bit on losing. Also, while the SWVA area is Hicksville, vpi has dominated NOVA for quite a while, really rabid fans in that large media market. Very insecure bunch, tired of uva looking down on them. I don’t know if vpi and uva are a package deal now - maybe someone knows the state politics on that. Historically uva acted independently and vpi was awful until Beamer came back, maybe that changed with vpi getting better at football and joining the acc. I could see unc jumping to sec although unc is, in their heart of hearts, a basketball school (imo). I’ve watched folks breaking down crying in bars on Franklin St watching unc lose a basketball game. Never saw that with football, more like “yeah as usual we suck” in football. Maybe none of that matters, just a scramble for $$. [/QUOTE]
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