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Flanker

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Conference affiliation


I arrived at Tech when Tech joined the Big East so I watched the program grow under Beamer. Tech began Big East play in the Fall of 1991 and their breakthrough season of nine wins came in 1993. That was the third year of conference membership that helped elevate Tech's program and Tech hadn't been in a football conference in the modern era.

Tech got into the ACC partly due to political pressure from Governor Mark Warner and the support of UVA President John Casteen. UVA was already in the ACC so I'm sure some argued that Tech did not enlarge the conference footprint. Jim Weaver's fiscal stewardship was even a factor in Tech's admission to the ACC.


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Link: Political influence helped Tech get in the ACC


Posted: 09/15/2021 at 11:04AM



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