{"id":72,"date":"2006-09-13T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-09-13T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:33:03","slug":"nc-state-to-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"NC State to the MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All these years we&#8217;ve labored under the apparently misguided presumption that if we spend millions of dollars and build extravagant field houses and pressbox towers complete with extravagant suites and weight rooms and practice fields, and we enclose our antiquated, yet somewhat charming, cow pasture of a stadium and erect massive statues and scoreboards and we launch a seemingly uncoordinated attack on the entire gameday &#8220;experience&#8221; in order to bring the attention onto the actual game itself and we keep making everything pretty, and we have contrived &#8220;traditions&#8221; like a Walk of damn Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then naturally we&#8217;ll draw the five-star and blue chip talent from South Florida to Raleigh that will promptly catapult us out of ACC mediocrity and into Jacksonville in December and Tempe in January.<\/p>\n<p>All these years we&#8217;ve tried to draw a correlation between all of the above and winning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And we now know, that in fact, we are not at that next level because we do not accept non-qualifiers into our program.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems like an easy fix to me.<\/p>\n<p>We should just secede to the MAC.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely we could finish second in that conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear&#8230; All these years we&#8217;ve labored under the apparently misguided presumption that if we spend millions of dollars and build extravagant field houses and pressbox towers complete with extravagant suites and weight rooms and practice fields, and we enclose our antiquated, yet somewhat charming, cow pasture of a stadium and erect massive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NC State to the MAC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}