Please keep in mind that, although, the last 1 and 1/2 years have been rocky, Carolina did win, or share, the ACC Title(either reugular season or tournament) in 1998,1999, 2000, 2001,2002 AND 2005( and, YES , I am aware of the "what have you done for me lately" school of thought ), but I hardly call that underachieving.

Boris, your comments are right on, especially the ones about recruits. A good example is Megan Hodge. During her recruiting process precious little was said about staying close to home and going to UNC or Duke or any other ACC school for that matter. While I am not so naive as to think that UNC or Duke actually had a chance to land her, or that going to school in your home state trumps( or should trump )other considerations such as possibly playing for a national championship, or in the toughest conference against the best competion or simply the desire to go away for college, and while I'm sure many will ridicule this post by saying "Why in the heck would any elite player go to an ACC school when they have the chance to play at an elite program such as Penn State" I'm simply saying that Megan Hodge exemplifies the problems that ACC schools seem to have in recruiting nationally elite players.( i.e. they seem to have little hope of recruiting elite in-state players much less elite players from elsewhere in spite of the fact that the ACC offers many attractive choices for a college education)