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Read your history. The original move was to be Miami, Cuse, and BC


Miami's athletic dept was hemorraging money and still had national relevance. Swofford approached UM President Donna Shalala about joining the ACC and allowed her to choose Syracuse and Boston College (for various personal and political reasons) as their escape partners.

Big East commish Mike Tranghese got wind of the deal and went public with it. Chaos and lawsuits ensued. Public shaming. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.

Thanks to Virginia governor Mark Warner strong-arming UVA into voting against any ACC expansion that didn't include VT, we were able to backdoor our way in.

For those of us that followed the story closely it was a horrible roller coaster ride. There was a serious possibility that VT would have been stuck on the outside looking in.

Swofford botched that first expansion attempt and has been showing his ineptitude ever since.

(In response to this post by chuckd4vt)

Posted: 06/07/2016 at 2:15PM



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