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RE: I know you don't like divisions,,,, but hear me out
(02-27-2024 11:04 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (02-27-2024 07:58 PM)esayem Wrote: (02-27-2024 03:46 PM)SouthernConfBoy Wrote: (02-27-2024 10:09 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (02-27-2024 08:27 AM)Garrettabc Wrote: Make it 21 teams:
Stan, Cal, SMU, TCU, OSU, WSU, Utah
UNC, NCSU, Wake, Duke, UVA, GT, Clem
UM, Pitt, VT, SU, BC, UL, Cinci
That would be best case scenario if the ACC is able to raid the B12 and not take any G schools.
Getting warmer...
The full history of Virginia Tech really is lost on the casual follower. You spent a scant 13 years in the Big East, only three of which where they allowed you to play basketball. It's as if the 40 years with UNC, NC State, UVa, MD, and Duke counted for nothing.
NC State (52), UNC (45), WF and Miami (40), and Clemson (34) have been your historic rival in addition to West Va., Richmond, and Bill & Lee.
The Gobblers chief rivals are the Keydets!
As late as the Bill Dooley era, VMI was considered an important rivalry. It would be difficult to overstate the impact that Frank Beamer had on Virginia Tech football. It's almost like it was reborn around 1993.
I think one of the things that tilts VT's important rivalry games in the direction of some old SoCon foes is the need for VT to play games in Richmond and the Tidewater. VMI, Richmond, William & Mary were at the important other end of the equation for about 8 games in Norfolk between 1958 and 1984. William & Mary, VMI, Vandy, and West Va played games with VT in Richmond during the same time span.
In fact a VT home game could be played in Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, or in Roanoke, or in Norfolk, or in Richmond, or even in Bluefield West Virginia (NC State played VT there once upon a time).
VT did not have a legitimate on campus football stadium until Lane was complete in 67. Ironically NC State and WF both completed new stadiums in the same time frame.
Few remember today that the reason Bill Dooley went to VT was that Carolina was not going to allow him to be his own AD like Frank McGuire was at South Carolina. So he took his ball and went to VT and became head coach and AD. That led to a falling out between the ptb between UNC and VT that lasted 15 or more years but you would have never read about it in the papers.
Even after they were blackballed they were never completely outside the orbit of the ACC. Just like South Carolina if they came back tomorrow, in three years you would have never known they left.
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I know you don't like divisions,,,, but hear me out
