ACC expansion.

I just can't get all that excited about the ACC's addition of the University of Miami and Virginia Tech, or what it all means to other conferences. To the extent that it makes the existing ACC schools' football programs better, that's fine and dandy, but I don't see how this is going to help Duke's 2-for-the-21st-century record. (They can't beat Northwestern, how can they possibly beat Miami?) And it certainly doesn't help the ACC's basketball reputation. Duke (like most ACC schools) will end up adding four more automatic wins to its schedule, but at the cost of removing four other games from the schedule - and Duke schedules some stiff non-conference games for experience. If they end up not being able to play Michigan State or Boston College so they can instead play Miami, Duke - and ultimately the ACC - ends up becoming weaker.

And all the hullabaloo about how wrong it is that the Big East was raided, and this will be the death of the Big East - utter baloney. Funny how the people decrying the ACC expansion are either sportwriters in Big East cities or administrators in Big East schools. If what was "done to them" was so evil, why is it all right for the Big East to raid Conference USA, for Louisville? And where were these voices when Virginia Tech bolted from the Atlantic 10 Conference to join the Big East in 2000? Or when the Southwest Conference was torn asunder in the mid 90's? Oh, that's right: Hypocrites don't need to be consistent, just loud.