Among Syracuse's future ACC rivals, only North Carolina State, whose recruiting class is ranked No. 81 by Scout.com, has a worse rating than Syracuse.

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The ACC is not the only conference with rules concerning the withdrawal of a school and this is not the first time that a conference has sued a departing school over the breach of those terms.

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The only losers in the deal are the ACC and Big East, which are forced to watch valued members walk out and take some valued conference tradition with them.

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One important thing to note in his piece is the effect on not only the non-AQs, but also the ACC and Big East.

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In each of the past two seasons, Duke had won the first meeting only to have UNC win the second to clinch the ACC regular-season title.

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Syracuse was ranked No. 73 on Wednesday on recruiting service Scout.com, just behind future ACC partners Duke and Georgia Tech but ahead only of Boston College.

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Virginia and Alabama are also the only two schools out of the SEC, Big Ten or ACC to turn a larger profit in the athletic department than their football program profit.

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Guidelines from the ACC and the American Heart Association say that Zetia should only be used in patients who can't get their cholesterol down far enough with statins.

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