Dennis Dodd reminds me of Pat Forde. Each is a Missouri graduate, and each loves to ignite or pour kerosene on a fire of controversy.

But what most intrigues me about them is that each is always ready to regurgitate some put down of the ACC. What leads Mizzou-trained sports journalists to denigrate the ACC repeatedly? Familiarity did not breed that contempt; perhaps envy did.

An example of an ACC put-down from Forde is in his piece "Conference Expansion's Winners and Losers" http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=5291319. 

Forde places the ACC among the Losers: "The good news: It didn...

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