Friday Afternoon Sanity Break

While we calmly and patiently wait for certain events to work themselves out, I wanted to share with you another possible divisional alignment for ACC football. The ACC guru in my office worked this out based on a lunchtime observation that I made. In the comments, share your guesses on how we came up with the alignments. Hint: Only Duke isn’t an obvious natural fit for its division – but they have to go somewhere.

Division A: Division B:
Clemson
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Duke
Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech
NC State
Wake Forest
Maryland
Boston College


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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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33 Responses to Friday Afternoon Sanity Break

  1. JeremyH 04/03/2009 at 5:34 PM #

    yup.

    ““I’m still here,” he said. “I’ve got a contract through October of 2013.”

    Fowler said he had heard the rumor, but assumed it was an April Fool’s joke that had taken off on the Internet.”

    Oh well, if you’re going to dream, dream big. And then wake up and take your lump of coal.

  2. Noah 04/03/2009 at 5:37 PM #

    Lee Fowler has said two things: His corporeal body still exists…and he has a contract.

    I believe him.

    I also don’t want to edit any of my previous comments.

  3. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 5:47 PM #

    Everyone just relax and let’s discuss the topic at hand. Fowler said nothing that isn’t a truism.

    Everything will work itself out over the next couple of weeks.

  4. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 5:53 PM #

    It seems that in ACC football, coaching beats talent. And thankfully, NC State looks primed to have both in the very near future.

  5. 61Packer 04/03/2009 at 6:38 PM #

    If we’re going to continue the ACC conference title game, which should be played in Charlotte every year rather than in half-empty stadiums all over Florida, the participants should be selected as the league’s best two teams, not the top team team in Division A and the top team in Division B. The Big 12 this year showed that league divisions allow the conference’s 4th best team in the league to make it into the title game, which happened.

    I just don’t like a situation where a team beats all of its division opponents and still could be left out of the league title game.

    If we MUST split the league into two divisions because people can’t count to 12 but can handle 6, then make the split sensible. Put the Big Four plus Clemson and FSU into one division, and BC, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Miami in the other. The Big Four and Clemson maintain historic ties, and FSU would be right at home with their arch-rivals Clemson and NC State. The other division would keep the longstanding rivalries among BC, Miami and Virginia Tech, plus would keep UVA and Va Tech plus Maryland close, and would make great sense in terms of travel, especially for Maryland and BC. Plus, it splits FSU and Miami, who will probably at some point continue to dominate the league. Georgia Tech might be the odd man out so to speak, but that’s better than killing so many other rivalries with the current divisions and the proposed ones I’ve seen on here so far.

  6. wolfpackdawg 04/03/2009 at 7:32 PM #

    (other than Duke, but Cutcliffe is considered more of a recruiter than X and O guy)

    Disagree….OC from hell at UTK…Great game plans/adjustments to the opposition ala Spurrier when he had talent.

  7. wufpup76 04/03/2009 at 8:26 PM #

    “Division A is the “recruiting” division. Division B is “coaching.”

    ^Interesting. Hopefully the “talent” will start really filtering over to Division B. One team in particular.

  8. packalum44 04/03/2009 at 9:58 PM #

    I agree 100% that Division B has better coaching. However, looking at the past 5-10 years, UVA gets out recruited by V-Tech every year. Not even close. UNC does not consistently out-recruit NC State or GA Tech. Clemson is only marginally better in recruiting.

    FL State and Miami consistently have top 10 classes. These guys should be the Duke/UNC of ACC football. Why do talented kids continue to go there?

    If you base the recruiting label on how these schools are PERCEIVED than I can buy it.

    VA Tech has best of both worlds which explains their recent ACC Titles.

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