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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 995463" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>The ACC isn’t going to disappear. It is not that the ACC is falling in comparison to others, it’s that others are accelerating ahead. Those are very different dynamics.</p><p></p><p>Tech was in the Southern Conference and left it to form the SEC. It left the ACC to become independent. It was on the outside looking and and wasting away. It tried to get back into the SEC but was rebuffed. Still, even as late as the 1990’s, the gap between spend per player in the SEC was higher, but it wasn’t obscenely higher. Today it is.</p><p></p><p>What differentiated the ACC from others 40 years ago was basketball dominance. That is gone. FSU and Miami were supposed to elevate the conference and they did, until both football programs went dormant. The ACC would be in a very different space if the FSU and Miami of the 1990’s had maintained their football reputations. Neither did. </p><p></p><p>Today, the game of athletics is entertainment and media drives it now. Kim King spoke to this 30 years ago and summed it up … “Tech doesn’t have the resources to win a Natty today, but it does have the resources to be a consistent Top 25.”</p><p></p><p>None of this is new. It’s been evolving for at least 30 years, but like most things, it’s accelerating. But, if South Alabama or Tulane or Cincinnati can field competitive teams, so can GT. I’m kinda excited about playing Stanford, and Cal and looking forward to the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 995463, member: 2957"] The ACC isn’t going to disappear. It is not that the ACC is falling in comparison to others, it’s that others are accelerating ahead. Those are very different dynamics. Tech was in the Southern Conference and left it to form the SEC. It left the ACC to become independent. It was on the outside looking and and wasting away. It tried to get back into the SEC but was rebuffed. Still, even as late as the 1990’s, the gap between spend per player in the SEC was higher, but it wasn’t obscenely higher. Today it is. What differentiated the ACC from others 40 years ago was basketball dominance. That is gone. FSU and Miami were supposed to elevate the conference and they did, until both football programs went dormant. The ACC would be in a very different space if the FSU and Miami of the 1990’s had maintained their football reputations. Neither did. Today, the game of athletics is entertainment and media drives it now. Kim King spoke to this 30 years ago and summed it up … “Tech doesn’t have the resources to win a Natty today, but it does have the resources to be a consistent Top 25.” None of this is new. It’s been evolving for at least 30 years, but like most things, it’s accelerating. But, if South Alabama or Tulane or Cincinnati can field competitive teams, so can GT. I’m kinda excited about playing Stanford, and Cal and looking forward to the future. [/QUOTE]
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