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<blockquote data-quote="GTJason" data-source="post: 8101" data-attributes="member: 94"><p>This is a purely football discussion. I think the issue is outside of ACC country (mid-atlantic) other people roll their eyes at the chant of ACC and in ACC country there is no need to chant it. The reality is most people don't chant for their conference. Do you know any Alabama fans that chant SEC (I don't know any actually so this is a semi-serious if rhetorical question?) They don't need to. UGA fans do it because they need an excuse for their few losses per year - sometimes it's a good argument. I know a few TAMU grads who openly mock teams like UGA for chanting SEC. The argument they have is they beat the national champion last year. I don't think the LSU fans cheered SEC after the MNC game 2 years ago.</p><p></p><p>The reality is the SEC has a few teams each year that could beat up on almost everyone in the country and they have a few that wouldn't do well in the former big east. The ACC has many teams that are pretty much middle of the road. How close were we to beating the #10 team in the country and getting to play Northern Illinois in the Orange bowl? Would it have been a good thing for the conference had we gone 8-6 with an orange bowl win? No not at all, but we would have loved it. What if we went 7-7 with an orange bowl loss to NIU? We did good work for the conference this past year beating USC and I enjoyed that matchup - mostly because I expected to get killed and we won by more than the scoreboard indicated. My point is the ACC won't be respected until we have a juggernaut or 2 that can beat up on everyone in the country. FSU and Clemson have all of the "intangibles" but can't seem to win. The reality is none of us are going to be happy unless GT is the team to hoist the crystal ball. Let's say Clemson runs the table and plays in the MNC and our only 2 losses are to them (reg season + ACCCG) and we win a BCS bowl. Are we cheering for Clemson in the MNC game or are we saying f' Clemson for screwing up our season? I'm thinking the latter but that's how I am, many would cheer for conference pride</p><p></p><p>TL;DR version: Winning cures everything</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTJason, post: 8101, member: 94"] This is a purely football discussion. I think the issue is outside of ACC country (mid-atlantic) other people roll their eyes at the chant of ACC and in ACC country there is no need to chant it. The reality is most people don't chant for their conference. Do you know any Alabama fans that chant SEC (I don't know any actually so this is a semi-serious if rhetorical question?) They don't need to. UGA fans do it because they need an excuse for their few losses per year - sometimes it's a good argument. I know a few TAMU grads who openly mock teams like UGA for chanting SEC. The argument they have is they beat the national champion last year. I don't think the LSU fans cheered SEC after the MNC game 2 years ago. The reality is the SEC has a few teams each year that could beat up on almost everyone in the country and they have a few that wouldn't do well in the former big east. The ACC has many teams that are pretty much middle of the road. How close were we to beating the #10 team in the country and getting to play Northern Illinois in the Orange bowl? Would it have been a good thing for the conference had we gone 8-6 with an orange bowl win? No not at all, but we would have loved it. What if we went 7-7 with an orange bowl loss to NIU? We did good work for the conference this past year beating USC and I enjoyed that matchup - mostly because I expected to get killed and we won by more than the scoreboard indicated. My point is the ACC won't be respected until we have a juggernaut or 2 that can beat up on everyone in the country. FSU and Clemson have all of the "intangibles" but can't seem to win. The reality is none of us are going to be happy unless GT is the team to hoist the crystal ball. Let's say Clemson runs the table and plays in the MNC and our only 2 losses are to them (reg season + ACCCG) and we win a BCS bowl. Are we cheering for Clemson in the MNC game or are we saying f' Clemson for screwing up our season? I'm thinking the latter but that's how I am, many would cheer for conference pride TL;DR version: Winning cures everything [/QUOTE]
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