That Awkward Family Reunion

You know how it is. Every year or so the family gathers for a reunion. You look forward to that one aunt’s chicken and hope that one cousin didn’t bring that friend who made their potato salad. You are all family. But there are those relatives you see all the time who attend every year and others that are around so infrequently you struggle to figure out how you’re even related.

The ACC began as conference in 1953 and since then our “family” has seen some welcome additions (GT, FSU, VPI) and those we were happy to disown (Maryland). Yet due to the expansion of our family, those we used to see regularly are drifting farther and farther apart.

This was the acknowledgement of both Dave Doeren &…