And that was only half of it. Jim Boeheim threw such a fit about having to go to Blacksburg that I was told it was mostly to appease him that our Bball program was left out. The other part of the story was that the old Metro Conference upon hearing of our football program joining a conference (we were independents in football) and led by the scumbag Denny Crum voted to kick Va Tech out of the Metro for all sports essentially leaving us without a conference affiliation for anything but football. Luckily the A10 allowed us to sweep the remaining pieces of our athletic department into their league where we languished. This is why I will gladly tell Denny Crum or Jim Boeheim to go screw themselves if I ever run in to them. I was not happy when those 2 programs were sucked into the ACC. That was how I remember it.