The ACC is 2nd of 2 conferences in southeast, mediocre among BCS conferences in basketball and a joke in football according to media and coaches polls and computers like Sagarin ratings used to determine pointspreads, plus it's the least fair conference with its tourney in NC every year and ref bias, Big East is dead last in both sports. Wake has the worst alltime win percentage of 114 div.IA programs and should move to new Big East where they would be much more competitive instead of continuing to steal money from the ACC. Duke and other ACC alums often live in northeast and want to be able to watch games and expand the TV region while improving the school's exposure and prestige and endowment, administrators want to stop losing millions every year in sports so they can fund more scholarships and dominate sports nationally, raise number of applicants, and improve academics, etc.
Conferences are always evolving, constantly adding and dropping schools, even the ACC, the link below shows that every major and minor conference has had multiple changes over the years, lots of teams leave for better conferences and more money:
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/sports/conferenceratings/history.html" target="_blank">http://www.angelfire.com/sports/conferenceratings/history.html</a>
Also, ACC and Big East have the worst traditions by far among the 6 major BCS conferences, and are the two weakest overall, that along with the gap between the haves and have nots in each conference and the worse than communist distribution agreement and archaic and reactionary voting system and unfair conference tourney location and unwieldy distribution with each concentrated in just part of the coast and ACC concentrated in just one small market, etc., make those 2 the most unstable conferences.
The ACC was formed in 1953 when 7 schools left the Southern Conference, which itself was formed in 1921 by 14 members of the 30 member Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Southern Conference has had 41 different members and changed several times, like when 13 of 23 members left to form the SEC. Southern Conference used to have schools like Washington and Lee, University of the South, and Wake Forest, obviously that doesn't mean those schools are worthy of being in top conferences now.
<a href="http://wajl10.com/history/conf/southern.htm" target="_blank">http://wajl10.com/history/conf/southern.htm</a>
All conferences evolve, and schools are always looking to be in better leagues, preferably the best, but if they ever do get in the best like the Ivy League, they never leave and have no reason to. Atlantic League with Syracuse, BC, Penn State, UMD, UVA, Duke, UNC, GT, FSU, and Miami, would dominate the east with half the US population and more than half the media and money, and the first conference of the third millennium would be the best in every sport and every way forever.
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