re: Question for Carolina fans

Multitude of factors. We started really competing at a high level, winning the football ACC championship in 1969 and basketball in 1971. We had good but mean players from up north and conference darlings UNC, Duke and UM coudln't stand this upstart and started trying to make it more difficult for us to compete. Also we were losing out to SEC teams for recruits because of more strict academic requirements for the ACC. Paul Dietzel and the AD then made the decision to leave the conference. Dietzel in particular thought we were hitting a ceiling in competition as well.

But mainly UNC and Dookie being jealous that we were starting to upset the applecart.