Quote:Though the ACC has a big foot print when it comes to viewership, there is concern outside the conference if there are enough passionate fans to support its own network. Though schools like Clemson, FSU, UNC, Duke, NC State, Louisville, Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech have very passionate fan bases in football or basketball, there are also schools such as Miami, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Boston College and Pitt that have very small or fickle fan bases.

Grouped with Wake and BC. Ugh. Small? Not really. Not a diploma factory, but about the size of Clemson. Fickle? Well probably guilty as charged after three staggeringly incompetent Athletic Directors on the trot and an academic side that sees that as the perfect time to levy additional academic barriers that nobody else has. And the last bit which is ignored which I think also effects Miami (and to a much lesser degree NC State): exportation. There simply aren't enough serious engineering jobs in metro Atlanta to handle 25,000 graduates a year. So GT exports quite a lot of its graduates. Befitting a transient city (why it hits Miami too). You may not find a concentrated high density cluster of GT fans, but you'll find they're all over the greater I-85 corridor and wherever serious manufacturing is going on.