Then Explain All of This:

a little stupid. Frankly, the problems most of us older folks have seen are a little less obvious than in the past, but here are a few snubs by the ACC

ACC Baseball tourney in Grennville: Until the recent move to Florida, the ACC Baseball touney had its top 6 attendance records while playing in Greenville. ACC schools NC State and UNC complained about a home advantage for Clemson, and it moved around to dead stadiums pretty much every year until the recent move to Florida. These same folks see no problem with the ACC Basketball tourney being held almost every year in North Carolina.

ACC Athlete of the Year: Prior to the recent exapnsion in 2004, in the 50 years of ACC Athletes of the year up to that time, Clemson was the last school to receive this honor. Even newbies Tech and FSU had a winner before Clemson.

Read the ACC website, anytime. You've got to dig to find something positive about Clemson.

The 1984 extra year of football probation (granted a long time ago).

Officiating: In football games, particularly when playing NC State and UNC over the years. Many examples, the best is 1999 at NC State where the enitre crew was suspended because TV showed the crew gave NC State 2 TD's that were not catches in a 4 point loss by the Tigers. The 1985 Maryland and UNC games. IMO however, basketball officiating is even worse. Anybody remember our best chance to beat UNC at Chapel Hill? We had something like 41 fouls called on us. Had to finish the game with 4 players on the court.

Now, do I think they sit around conspiring to do harm to Clemson, no. I do think if given an option of helping one of the Big Four, or justly siding with Clemson, we are royally screwed by the ACC every time.

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1. As AD at UNC, he led the charge by the ACC to add an extra year of probation to the NCAA imposed penalties on Clemson in the early 1980s.

2. After the "brawl" against South Carolina, he attempted to give our players multi-game suspensions the next year (along with a bowl ban) but thankfully Dr. Phillips stood tall and refused to let him do it. Look
at the penalties he imposed on us versus those he imposed (none whatsoever) against FSU in their pre-game brawl against Florida and Miami in their post-game brawl against LSU.

3. The favoritism he shows for UNC is Thursday night game scheduling. UNC has never hosted a Thursday night game on campus despite the ACC making a rule that each school has to host once every two years, if ESPN
requests.

4. The way he has allowed Mike Martin and the NAACP to strong-arm him into no longer having the ACC baseball tournament in SC. Correct me if I am wrong, but did the NAACP not agree to the compromise of removing the
Confederate flag from atop the State House dome to somewhere else on the grounds? If it were the state of North Carolina would he really allow the NCAA to brow-beat a member institution over an issue that they have
zero control over?

5. His refusal to publicly reprimand officials who time and again make blatant errors in games involving Clemson, including:

-He failed to fire Rick Hartzell after his comments prior to the 95 or 96 UNC basketball game in Chapel Hill where we proceeded to "commit" 41 fouls to UNC's 9 and finish the game with 4 players.

-He allowed Jimbo Howey to continue to be an ACC official despite his well-known connection to USC and the Gamecock Club after several bad calls against Clemson including most notably the pass interference call in 98 at UVA that allowed UVA to win the game. Howey later admitted he blew the call.

-He refused to fire Jim Knight, Ron Cherry, Mike Wood, and others who have shown their blatant incompetence, and favoritism on Wood's part,time and again. The examples are too numerous for me to list.

6. His refusal to even entertain helping Ray Ray (or at least his underlings' refusal) and then lying about it and bow to media pressures...

7. The BC Game...

I could go on and on.....

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for ACC conspiracy theorists

1984

That was a lifetime ago.***

It was but Swofford was still trying to run the ACC*******

Some things run deep and long!!!***

Here is the thing, if you are under 25 it probably sounds

AMEN***

I only mention how bad the refs are in our games because

Theres at least 1 more overturned call than there should be***