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Date Posted: 09:56:19 06/20/03 Fri
Author: Bigfoot
Subject: ACC expansion, continued

For an interesting (and scathing) commentary on the sorry state of affairs in the ACC, read Jenkins' story, "Greedy ACC: Fat Cats And Pigskin," in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14390-2003Jun19.html?referrer=email

An excerpt:

"The ACC is so determined to get bigger that it seems not to care what the cost to the collegiate landscape. Its ravening expansion plan would mean the virtual destruction of the Big East and trigger similar destruction of other conferences, a domino effect. The bigs would get bigger and all other schools in search of athletic revenue would starve and shrink. But who cares?

"Not most ACC members, or the traitorous Big East presidents thinking of joining them, or Virginia Tech, which is apparently for sale. You could probably buy the Blacksburg campus from an Internet e-tailer."

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