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. waxhaw 04/03/2009 at 1:02 PM #

    It puts us in a division with all of the teams we traditionally have trouble with?

  2. GAWolf 04/03/2009 at 1:05 PM #

    It’s an amazing day when no NC State fans want to talk “Carolina Conspiracy.”

  3. old13 04/03/2009 at 1:05 PM #

    Looks like somewhat overlapping Northern and Southern Divisions.

  4. Tampa-Pack 04/03/2009 at 1:07 PM #

    Number of conference championships divided between two divisions?

  5. RedPRS22 04/03/2009 at 1:09 PM #

    Best looking girls? (No offense Division B…)

  6. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 1:18 PM #

    Nobody’s got it right yet!

  7. PittsburghPackFan 04/03/2009 at 1:19 PM #

    Has-Beens vs Up-and-Comers?

  8. JasonP 04/03/2009 at 1:28 PM #

    The Haughty vs the Naughty?

  9. Alpha Wolf 04/03/2009 at 1:30 PM #

    You got me on that one.

    It’s not land grant schools.

    Or original members.

  10. JeremyH 04/03/2009 at 1:56 PM #

    B is stacked to the gills, except for us. ouch.

  11. boxorice 04/03/2009 at 2:12 PM #

    Schools with the best looking coeds and Duke?

  12. boxorice 04/03/2009 at 2:12 PM #

    Damn, sorry Red, I overlooked your comment.

  13. codebrown 04/03/2009 at 2:17 PM #

    Girls to Guys ratio of the student body?

  14. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 2:24 PM #

    Think more in terms of recent history and how the programs are structured.

  15. howlie 04/03/2009 at 2:45 PM #

    Self-described “elite” schools
    vs.
    ‘blue collar’ &/or ‘small’ schools with no fanbase

  16. JasonP 04/03/2009 at 2:50 PM #

    The Worthy vs the Red Headed Step Children

  17. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 2:51 PM #

    Nobody’s even warm yet. You guys must have stayed up too late last night for some reason.

  18. buttPACKer 04/03/2009 at 3:02 PM #

    ^You guys must have stayed up too late last night for some reason.

    that’s good.

  19. waxhaw 04/03/2009 at 3:24 PM #

    Our division would have represented 7 of the 8 slots in ACC championship games.

  20. Gene 04/03/2009 at 3:32 PM #

    Tenure of coaches / number of recent coaching changes over past several years?

  21. StateofthePack 04/03/2009 at 3:35 PM #

    Division A features the teams that have supposedly everything in place to compete, be a national and conference player but for the past 5-7 years have not. Division b features the up and comers, the flash in the pan teams that don’t have supposed staying power.

    Or the media darlings in Division A vs the teams in Division B which are always the underdog against the other division’s geographic counterpart or against an outside presence. uva-vt, ncsu-unc, wf-unc, bc vs pro mentality, maryland vs pro mentality, gt vs uga and being in an sec town.

  22. hoop 04/03/2009 at 4:00 PM #

    Div. A has teams with the highest national recognition. Div. B does not.

  23. Skillet73 04/03/2009 at 4:02 PM #

    Why don’t we just do directional divisions (i.e. North and South) like other conferences. Obviously when we get to NC it can be split many different ways, but this is what I feel makes the two divisions the most balanced under the N/S conditions:

    NORTH
    Boston College
    Maryland
    Virginia
    Virginia Tech
    Wake Forest
    NC State

    SOUTH
    North Carolina
    Duke
    Clemson
    Georgia Tech
    Florida State
    Miami

  24. BJD95 04/03/2009 at 4:56 PM #

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

    Over the past several years, Division A teams (other than Duke, but Cutcliffe is considered more of a recruiter than X and O guy) has brought in elite talent, but not coached it well. Division B teams have outperformed what the talent base would lead one to expect, because they’ve had excellent coaching.

    Thoughts?

  25. old13 04/03/2009 at 5:02 PM #

    OK, SFN. What’s your take on the WRAL report?

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