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The Future of the ACC
Nice piece in the Christian Science Monitor about what expansion means for the ACC’s basketball programs. Especially telling is this excerpt that quotes Wake Forest prof John Llewellyn:
Basketball defined this region in a way no other sport had, and at the very least, new accents and distant sponsors will dilute the Dixie flavor. “The preeminence of the ACC was a way in which the South became part of a nation,” says Professor Llewellyn. “We were best in the nation at something, which, other than writers of modern fiction, we haven’t managed in too many categories.”
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It happened to NASCAR a few years back and it’s now a huge national money machine instead of a regional laughingstock for the rest of the country. As George Carlin said, “Who wants to watch a bunch of yahoos going around in circles at 200 mph? The same five rednecks win every week anyway.” Well, now the whole country does, George…
This may be good in the long run for the region. God knows we need *something* to happen here besides all our manufacturing jobs going to Mexico and China.