http://research.unc.edu/about/facts-rankings/research-funding/index.htm

That… is a lot of money.

Correction - UNC & Duke have lots of money. which is why Swofford could not give a rats rear-end about football or it’s impact on most of the members of the ACC.
In fact, it would NOT surprise me if he was hoping the pitiful deal he cut for the ACC is a way to level the football field for his baby blue friends while driving other sports further down the sinkhole.
And Tarhole fans wonder why we despise them so much…...just hope we can find a way to get out of this pathetic conference.

Yeah there is no stick to Carolina sentiment…

Jealousy is no way to live a life dude. Enjoy the blue cheese.

Wonder what FSU’s ranking in US News was in 1990 compared to today. I think I know.
The ACC is awful.

Hilarious that Clemson is a better school by US News ranking than South Carolina and you feel inferior to them because of football. Talk about tail wagging the dog. You do belong in another conference. We are too pathetic for losers like you.

I grew up in NC and there is plenty of STICK to the UNC sentiment. All my wife’s family are die-hard UNC wine & cheese crowd so I know the stick of which I speak.
I could care less what you think or your idiocy regarding USuC. Do us all a favor and go back to the hippies/wierdos on Franklin St or He’s Not Here or wherever you bike or Prius to in Chapel Hole.
We do agree that we would all be happier if we could separate our sports so maybe, just maybe, the planets will align and we can be in a real conference while you live in your little blue world.

Sounds like somebody didn’t get into Carolina!!

While I hear that from the baby blue crowd, and it can be funny (but not after you hear it 10000 times), there is not a chance in the world, with a free ride, would you ever find me going to UNC.
I am a proud grad of UNC-Wilmington so if you mean that Carolina, I did get in.
So, let’s just say I despise UNC, want out of any conference with UNC in it or Swofford running it, and leave it at that.
I’ll give you the last word; gotta go milk the cows.

SoPinesHeel - 18 May 2012 03:34 PM

Sounds like somebody didn’t get into Carolina!!

That’s Georgia Tech’s lame comeback… Willie Parker went to UNC and he can’t even write his own name.

I think the intent of my post was mistaken. The fact is the Academic money is way more than any athletic money. While folks seem to think it’s money driving the football train. How will leaving the ACC impact any academic grant money? As for the above insults….. Goodbye, then. I hope you get your wish, and that school can go. I visited there last season. I met lots of really nice people. There are lots of nice folks in Chapel Hill, also. Generalities show a small perspective.

Willie Parker cant write his own name? Maybe that is why he didn’t ever seem to start in Chapel Hill. I just always thought Bunting hated him.

Back to driving my Prius. 50.3 miles to the gallon today.

Wilmington is an ag school?