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Originally Posted by BajanYankee
Yeah...Maryland, Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina, NC State, Clemson and South Carolina were the founding members.
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The interesting thing is that South Carolina was always a more basketball-oriented school. They even won the conference outright the year before departing the ACC. |
South Carolina left the ACC because of the basketball program. Then Coach Frank McGuire got fed up with the "ACC powers" (should be read as the NC schools) doing everything they could to keep SC from becoming a power house.
While all this happened well before my time it is my understanding that there was an agreement that Clemson would leave the ACC at the same time as SC but they backed out at the last minute. But that is just another one of the long list of issues between Carolina and Clemson.
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I know South Carolina was once part of the ACC, but they joined the SEC forty years or so ago.
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Carolina joined the SEC along with Arkansas for the 1992 football season. In the gap between leaving the ACC and joining the SEC SC played as an independent in football and was in the Metro conference for other sports.
Leaving the ACC led to some dark times for Carolina athletics but ended up allowing us to make the best move possible joining the SEC.
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