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The ACC's Bloat

By AAN Staff
july 15, 2003  10:20 am
The ACC's Bloat
In its botched expansion, has the ACC "forsaken all it once stood for, selling out to football and TV?" Independent Weekly's Barry Jacobs looks at what the addition of Miami and Virginia Tech will do to the conference that was founded by football boosters but has always been known for its basketball power. "Here we were ... operating in a hostile takeover manner, with greed as the single manifestation of it, and nobody was telling anybody anything," William Friday, retired president of the University of North Carolina system and a leading advocate of athletic reform, tells Jacobs.
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