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Atlee Hokie

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Swofford screwed up the 1st expansion because of his own stupidity.


It doesn't take a lot of brilliance to realize you need to have all the votes you need in your pocket before you announce a public vote.

How in hell could Swofford call for a vote on Miami, Syracuse, and BC, when he didn't have the votes needed, unless either UNC or Duke had lied to him about voting for expansion with those three teams.

I'm quite sure the HOO president had told Swofford before hand, UVA would not vote for any expansion that didn't include VT.

Swofford embarrassed himself when he couldn't get 8 of 10 votes needed the first time, and then continually embarrassed himself when he continued to have these public meetings without making the changes needed to have expansion.

Once he included VT instead of either Syracuse, or BC, the vote succeeded immediately.

If he had 8 votes in his pocket at the first public meeting, he would have been gold.


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Posted: 04/21/2016 at 3:23PM



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