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I’d like to see numbers from those states by ACross

My point is that about 40 percent of the student body is midwestern and that should be acknowledged and embraced and not camouflaged and disavowed. We are not eastern or southern or mid Atlantic.

We have a midwestern center of gravity. A national presence for sure. But we are a fish out of water in the ACC. Most especially in footballl.

The answer is not to join the Big 10 though I would prefer it to the fka Southern Com]nference. I think the answer is implosion and recruit the likes of Texas, Penn State,Nebraska, Miami, BYU and a couple others to blow up the conference/ESPN monster dream it all up again.