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Game Day Hero [4486]
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So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 17, 2025, 5:05 PM
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So the ACC makes up a little more than five percent of the tourney field. If you count UNC's consolation bid and expand the pool to 68 then the ACC makes up almost six percent of the field.
Meanwhile, two ACC teams made the 12-team football playoff. Meaning the ACC made up almost 18 percent of the football playoff field.
So is the ACC a football conference now?
Go Tigers.
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 17, 2025, 5:11 PM
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Tnet maff at its best
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Orange Immortal [62175]
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 17, 2025, 6:36 PM
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Gotta love it y'all
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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I ran this by google before posting.
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Mar 18, 2025, 9:51 AM
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I'm very confident in the maths.
The ACC made up a larger share of the CFP than the NCAA tournament. That this fact is unpalatable to many passionate ACC basketball fans does not negate it.
Therefore, it is reasonable to wonder whether the ACC's push to expand its football footprint in pursuit of an ever-greater share of overall athletics revenues, is beginning to come to fruition.
I for one am grateful that the ACC has had the courage to embrace this vision. Clemson did it when hiring Dabo Swinney and look at what has come to pass.
UNC blazed a similar trail recently by hiring Bill Belichick, and I expect their football success under his leadership (and the resulting financial windfall) will emolden other basketball programs to follow suit.
Because the money has been, is, and always will be in football. The sooner these basketball schools learn this, the better off the ACC will be in the long-term.
All that's needed now is for Coach Brownell to take what he's learned in his 15 seasons under Dabo Swinney and apply it at IU, another storied basketball school whose program has fallen on hard times but whose football team also made the CFP.
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Paw Master [17827]
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What happens when a basketball team actually advances? Does the pendulum
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Mar 17, 2025, 5:15 PM
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swing back to basketball again?
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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Yes.
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Mar 18, 2025, 11:20 AM
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Wins over McNeese State, San Diego State, Mt. St. Marys/American, and Creighton would tell the world the ACC is most definitely back.
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Orange Blooded [2366]
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Re: Yes.
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Mar 18, 2025, 11:30 AM
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ACC leads in winning percentage and Elite 8 appearances over the last 5 tournaments. They never left. They just don't get any respect.
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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You forgot all the quality losses.
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Mar 18, 2025, 1:29 PM
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Rival Killer [3025]
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Re: Yes.
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Mar 19, 2025, 5:43 AM
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In ESECPN world:
One negative year for the ACC is a permanent trend.
One negative year for the SEC is ignored.
One positive year for the SEC is a permanent trend.
Decades of positive years for the ACC is ignored.
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Paw Master [17827]
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it will certainly send a better message than losing 100% of your playoff games..
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Mar 19, 2025, 2:41 AM
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by multiple TDs
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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You're so right. Texas and Penn State
Mar 19, 2025, 2:05 PM
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are absolutely to football what San Diego State, Creighton of Omaha, American/Mt. St. Mary's, and McNeese State are to basketball.
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Paw Master [17827]
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You act like none of these ACC schools will face those equivalents when they
Mar 19, 2025, 11:46 PM
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advance into the Sweet 16...We will face a 4 seed in the second round, I doubt we lose by 2 TDs
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Re: You act like none of these ACC schools will face those equivalents when they
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Mar 20, 2025, 12:03 AM
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This guy said we’d beat Duke, he gonna go on record for the tourney, or just whine like a little bi#### (vizacil).
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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Your initial response
Mar 20, 2025, 12:17 PM
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invited a comparison between ACC football first-round success, and ACC basketball first-round success.
But now that you've pivoted to a more tenable position, I'll respond by saying that, should two or more ACC basketball teams advance to the E8 or beyond (which we can all agree would be a decent outcome), I'll be happy to reconvene here and discuss whether the ACC is in danger of returning to its roots as a basketball conference.
I say "in danger of" because of course we all know that football is where the money is. And in today's landscape, the marshaling of financial resources has never been more vital for D1 athletics programs. Continuing to champion the ACC in basketball is a one-way ticket to Big East status.
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Athletic Dir [1186]
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Re: Yes.
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Hoping the only win there is the one over McNeese State by the Tigers. I would love to see looserville and dook lose in the first round.
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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Clearly you are a right-thinking ACC football fan***
Mar 20, 2025, 1:12 PM
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and have the conference's long-term interests at heart.
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 17, 2025, 5:44 PM
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Doesn't matter because it will change every year.
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Clemson Conqueror [11246]
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 17, 2025, 7:04 PM
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3, 4, 4%, 5% whose counting?
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Paw Warrior [4627]
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 18, 2025, 9:57 AM
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The AcC basketball has dropped virtually every year for the past 15. Sure, we had a top heavy team or two, but the quality of the league is built around the entire league and face it, our league stinks.
Are we football league, yes.
Then, baseball, soccer, golf,softball, tennis,track, gymnastics etc and way down the list, is basketball.
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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I fear you may be right.
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Mar 18, 2025, 10:16 AM
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But all is not lost, assuming the ACC is willing to embrace its burgeoning identity as a football conference.
This is especially true now that the SEC is shifting its focus from football to basketball -- something our esteemed colleague Francis Marion has pointed out.
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Commissioner [1250]
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Re: I fear you may be right.
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Mar 18, 2025, 2:03 PM
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I’m afraid a slightly deeper analysis will reveal this conference stinks in both fb and bb.
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Rival Killer [3025]
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Re: I fear you may be right.
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LOL to the SEC shifting their focus. What a ridiculous take. It’s just the current topic and the paid shills are just pumping it. Yeah, they did awesome in non conf THIS year. But look at the last 5 like a previous post pointed out. And the SEC hasn’t won a BB championship in 13 years.
They get slaughtered practically every year in the first 2 rounds. Why? Hmmm. Simply because they are OVERRATED.
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This is very well done thread,
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Mar 19, 2025, 6:41 AM
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A1ASauce® . Well thought out and more than tinged with the rich aroma of sarcasm! In fact, if your poasts were being read to me, I'd think the arthur was Francis Marion® . Is he mentoring you?
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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Nurturing is probably the better word.
Mar 19, 2025, 2:00 PM
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FM is quite the coach and teacher.
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Game Changer [2070]
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Any cogent discussion of convergent and divergent
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Mar 19, 2025, 6:55 AM
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shifts in the tectonics of conferential competitive identification must include consideration of archetypal parabellum theory and laws for computational human dynamics.
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CU Medallion [19752]
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Re: Any cogent discussion of convergent and divergent
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Mar 19, 2025, 7:52 AM
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Game Changer [2070]
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The wife saw your response and said,
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Mar 19, 2025, 10:36 PM
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"That was appropriate."
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Re: So three ACC teams made the 64-team basketball playoff.
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Mar 19, 2025, 10:39 PM
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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This gif is deeply, deeply troubling.
Mar 20, 2025, 1:18 PM
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Please strive to bring a little more class to the thread(s).
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Re: This gif is deeply, deeply troubling.
Mar 20, 2025, 6:47 PM
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Should only be one ACC team left now. ACC bias got North Carolina in. The committee is living in the past selecting them. They only won one Quad 1 game and lost all the rest.
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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Just worry about beating Wofford.
Mar 20, 2025, 6:52 PM
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Would hate to see another SEC program tumble so early in the tournament, given the conference's fresh focus on basketball over football.
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Rival Killer [2777]
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Re: Just worry about beating Wofford.
Mar 20, 2025, 6:57 PM
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Game Day Hero [4486]
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I'm sure you've heard this before, but
Mar 20, 2025, 6:59 PM
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you should probably see if you can make that thing a little bigger.
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