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I hate the ACC Coastal

It's the worst Power 5 division in FBS college football and it has been for nearly a decade. What's more frustrating is the fact we've only won it once in the same time frame. I have many reasons for despising this embarrassingly bad division, and I often have reoccurring fantasies about not being associated with it anymore. Listed below are my reasons and additional details:

1) It's a breathing ground for mediocrity

Calling it mediocre is being nice. The last time a Coastal Champion won the ACC Championship game was 2010. Since then, the Coastal Champion has lost to the Atlantic Champion by an average of 22 points a game, with only a small handful of them being one score contests. In the same time frame, the Coastal Champion has finished the season with an average of 9.5 total wins INCLUDING a bowl game. NY6 or BCS bowl wins since 2010? Only 1. Not a single team has been in the college football playoff conversation unless you want to include our 2017 squad.

2) Severe lack of tradition amongst its teams

There are few "football" schools and 0 exciting or relevent rivalries within the division. Other than Miami, what program has a rich history of winning and dominating on the gridiron? Since 1980, the only other school credited with a National Title was Georgia Tech in 1990. Virginia Tech became a much better program in the late 90's and early 2000's, but they weren't anything special before before that, and they're still inconsistent and average today. Virginia Tech is still our biggest competition in the Coastal each year despite being a .500 ball club most of the time.

3) Like it or not, Miami is the team with the X on its back

Some people on here will disagree with me on this, but I believe Miami is the team everyone wants to beat each year. We are everyones Super Bowl. Why? Because there's no one else. There's not a team in the Coastal who has the history this program has, and no team who recruits as well as we do. No other Coastal team has as many draft picks either. Sure, maybe a lot of those draft picks in the last 10 years have been late rounders, but we still get more guys drafted and put more guys in the NFL than any other Coastal team. You'd think this would change after 15 years of average Miami football, but there are no other division foes who have done anything to lead us to believe they're the team to beat each season.

4) You can only get so excited about playing .500 divisional opponents

Yeah, you can only get so excited about playing UNC, Duke, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech in anything other than basketball. I assure you College Gameday will not be present at any of these schools in 2020, nor will they be there for any regular season game involving 2 Coastal teams. There's a small chance we'll see a ranked Miami play a ranked UNC or Virginia Tech, but I doubt it would be considered "College Gameday" worthy. Other than Virginia Tech, and sometimes UNC or Miami, the stadiums will be half empty and the games will have low stakes.

I can only think of one year (2016) when the Coastal wasn't a complete joke of a division. It's gotten progressively worse in the last 2-3 years. Most folks think it's better for us to play in a division with an easier schedule, but I disagree. Playing a soft schedule every year will not make this program better or bring us back to relevancy. The Big East was NEVER this bad when Miami was in it!

I'd love to see us schedule tougher non-conference opponents each year, and I pray for an annual Miami/UF matchup, or more games against Notre Dame! Unlikely, but I can dream, right?!

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