Holden Thorp: Louisville addition is about athletics

Posted Nov 28, 2012
North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp put it bluntly when asked why the ACC Council of Presidents chose to add Louisville over Cincinnati and UConn. Forget academics. This was all about sports. "It was really all of the presidents who discussed it, and I think that what we felt was that what the ACC needed the most was to add the most exciting sports program that we could," Thorp said (ESPN.com)

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