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Conference Expansion: Stanford, California and SMU Join the ACC

SCDeac said:
I guess I was thinking more of an academic/ACC culture fit. Plus NOLA would be a nice road trip and the Houston market is eyeballs. Maybe consider Navy. They actually have nice TV numbers and bringing them in with Stanford might help budge ND.
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Love the optimism but if ND hasn’t budged yet, Stanford and Navy aren’t doing it.
 
wakelaw13 said:
Brah. Go to a game at State or just walk around Cameron Village. I don’t particularly like the fanbase, but the chick situation isn’t a problem.
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Good to know. Things must have changed. Twenty years ago I was told by a close friend at State it was a different story. He used to say campus was Bricks and Dicks
 
WakeFanAdam said:
Good to know. Things must have changed. Twenty years ago I was told by a close friend at State it was a different story. He used to say campus was Bricks and Dicks
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This is why the Tiki Hut girls were such a big deal.
 
Liquid Karma said:
Cute. Now spend more than 48 hours there.

The middle part of this country is a shithole.
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You maybe need to get out more, LK. Plenty of shithole areas in the Carolinas. A lot, actually. The proximity to mountains and beaches offsets that somewhat, but I don't think you'd be living in shithole neighborhoods in the midwest.

(NOTE: I've spent about 72 hours in Lincoln for activities unrelated to Cornhusker football, and it was ok, not shitholey, but not somewhere I'd want to live.)
 
I think the ACC should look into SMU - they're a good enough school and they help the conference expand into Texas. Then the decision is to pick schools in the eastern half of the US or the western.
 
Stanford is completely gettable right now. They are the premier academic school that competes at the highest level , they have more national championships than any other college, they are from the biggest state in our country and their conference just fell apart and they don’t have a date to the prom. Go get them.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
You maybe need to get out more, LK. Plenty of shithole areas in the Carolinas. A lot, actually. The proximity to mountains and beaches offsets that somewhat, but I don't think you'd be living in shithole neighborhoods in the midwest.

(NOTE: I've spent about 72 hours in Lincoln for activities unrelated to Cornhusker football, and it was ok, not shitholey, but not somewhere I'd want to live.)
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I lived in the Midwest for 3 years. I’d rather live in the shittiest place in NC than the nicest city in the Midwest. I will never go back.
 
SC DEAC said:
Stanford is completely gettable right now. They are the premier academic school that competes at the highest level , they have more national championships than any other college, they are from the biggest state in our country and their conference just fell apart and they don’t have a date to the prom. Go get them.
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Not that hard to win national championships when you’re like 1 of 4 schools competing in a lot of those sports, but I agree we should grab them.
 
SC DEAC said:
Stanford is completely gettable right now. They are the premier academic school that competes at the highest level , they have more national championships than any other college, they are from the biggest state in our country and their conference just fell apart and they don’t have a date to the prom. Go get them.
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100%. Travel sucks but it’s travel or die at this point.
 
rawarr said:
someone else will pick up Stanford and the ACC will release a story about how they looked at it really, really hard
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That tweet yesterday about how the presidents were getting ready to meet to discuss inviting 5-7 PAC teams was on-brand. Are they genuinely incompetent or guilefully trying to make it seem like they’re doing something proactive?
 
Stanford makes zero sense as an acquisition. I don't know why anybody would think otherwise. The ACC's westernmost school is Louisville. The academics of Stanford are a lame reason to go get them, and the access to CA recruiting makes no sense because California kids aren't going to play in NC on the off chance that they may play in Palo Alto one year out of four. Besides, Cali kids would rather go play in the Big 10 for one of the other west coast brands.

Somebody mentioned SMU, which makes more sense and has more geographic proximity, but it's still a reach.

Connecticut brings nothing except basketball. If the ACC is looking to counter the Big 12 as a basketball conference, that makes sense.

The best thing about the Big 10 expansion is it eliminates options for Clemson, FSU, UNC, and Miami. I don't think the SEC is in a hurry to add any of those schools.
 
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