Miami is the third team from the ACC Coastal division to be in trouble with the NCAA in a little...

Miami is the third team from the ACC Coastal division to be in trouble with the NCAA in a little over a year.

If you'd asked me to tell you whether Georgia Tech, Miami, and North Carolina were in the same division, I'd have had no idea.

I'm not sure whether it's impressive or disturbing that someone knows this, though, in the author's defense, he is a fan of an ACC team.

Go 'Dawgs!

9 months ago T Kyle King 17 comments 0 recs |

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If you've ever asked yourself, "Do ACC fans have a sense of humor?" . . .

. . . the answer is, “No”:

Dawg Sports . . . now pissing people off, one conference at a time!

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 17, 2011 11:02 PM EDT reply actions

dude, you are in a twitter war? /smirk

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Aug 17, 2011 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions

i'm very proud

of Kyle’s ability to embrace the twitters. he set out to embrace it some time ago, and he has succeeded.

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Aug 17, 2011 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, because I wasn't infuriating enough people in real life and in the blogosphere, . . .

. . . I had to go out and get people outraged on Twitter, too! :)

Do you know how difficult it is to make someone mad in 140-character bursts?

And along comes vineyarddawg with the “Someone is wrong on the internet!” .gif in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 17, 2011 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm proud of you for becoming such an instigator, like the great our 3rd idol (behind Dusty Rhodes and Gen. Patton)...

http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Aug 18, 2011 7:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Actually, this was the picture I had in mind.

It applies to your original post.

by vineyarddawg on Aug 18, 2011 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions

Also, whenever I go off to a Twitter war, . . .

. . . I wear my Nike Pro Combat typing gloves. (They’re aerated, so my fingers can breathe!)

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 17, 2011 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions

are they black? or just look black on vhs?

"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Aug 17, 2011 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Sadly, I do not have a VHS tape of me typing at a computer keyboard.

Oh, all right, yeah, I do. I’ll upload it to YouTube when I get a free couple of minutes.

/Commodore64’d

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Aug 17, 2011 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions

In the Bleachers...

What a fitting name.

"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone

by RedCrake on Aug 17, 2011 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

They act as if its your fault that the ACC has weird division alignments.

To quote myself from EDSBS:

You just have to remember that the Virginias are in the same division, and UNC is there too. UNC brings along Duke. That means NC State and Wake are bumped over into the other division. Virginia Tech played FSU in a title game one year, so Miami is in the VaTech division. Because Wake is in the other division and beat GaTech one year, that means GaTech is also in the Virginia division. That leaves Clemson, BC, Maryland left over to be in the Wake Forest division!

Really though. B1G is about to have a similar problem with its divisions. No one is going to remember which division is Leaders and which is Legends, just like no one remembers which is Atlantic and which is Coastal. Geographic names (even when there are oddities like Vanderbilt being farther west than Auburn) are easy to remember because most of us have at one point looked at a map of these United States.

Having to remember which random teams are considered Coastal and which random teams are considered Legends does not make it easy on the casual viewer. B1G might be able to get away with it due to its breakdown being roughly Northwest and Southeast Divisions. SEC is easy to remember. Big XII was easy to remember. PAC-12 is easy to remember, despite not even having a season yet! Conference USA, if you can remember the teams, is easy to remember.

To be concise: Geography is easy to remember. Seemingly random placement is not.

The 984 Has Spoken!

by The984 on Aug 18, 2011 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I hate to try to make an argument in favor of the B1G...

… but here we are.

At least with the B1G you can remember that one division has all the M’s, all the N’s, and Iowa. All the other teams are in the other division. I have no idea which one is leaders and which one is legends, however.

The ACC’s divisions are just a random mish-mash with little logical meaning behind it. I could simply memorize the teams in each division… but I choose not to. When the ACC becomes relevant nationally in football, then maybe we can talk.

by vineyarddawg on Aug 18, 2011 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

You can’t put a price tag on integrity, though, and the ACC’s got it. The ACC has earned a reputation for hiring coaches with consciences…
h/t Blutarsky

Really?

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Aug 18, 2011 8:47 AM EDT reply actions