The CHARLOTTE OBSERVER goes with the header, "The new ACC is here. Yet the conference’s identity, like its future, remains very unclear." The ACC earlier this month "celebrated a new beginning and its newest member," the league "morphing into its new form, however long that configuration might last." A league with "deep roots along Tobacco Road, in ways both figurative and close to literal," has now "gone coast-to-coast, for better or worse." The celebration earlier this month "came with the feel of a carnival, or perhaps an all-day commercial designed to sell the perception that all is well in the ACC -- that if these aren’t the best of times, they’re at least as good as any other." Expansion was "all part of the journey, and perhaps an inevitable part of it." Now that it has arrived, though, "the ACC’s identity, like its future, has never been more muddled."
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