CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WDRB) – ACC Basketball Media Day used to be the land of the giants.
Roy Williams posting up Rick Bozich in a corner to talk about a dadgum column from six months earlier (he was a Bozich fan).
Mike Krzyzewski rolling in with national media in tow, sitting down to solve the game’s problems.
Jim Boeheim asking if they’d opened any good restaurants in North Carolina yet. Rick Pitino ranting that they’d closed a nearby street for a Trump rally. Tony Bennett explaining the beauty in a 47-43 win.
Now? The commissioner is quoting bracketologists like gospel and begging Congress to bail out the church.
The ACC, once a sovereign nation of cutting nets and crafting legends, has been reduced to PowerPoint presentations and “viewership incentives.” Rivalries that spanned generati