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Article: Florida State disputes Charlotte Observer report on school's role in ACC expansion plan.
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- PC World
- Article date:
- June 12, 2003
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Byline: Randy Beard
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Sandy D'Alemberte doesn't mind saying he has long supported the Atlantic Coast Conference expanding to 12 teams. Like most people not suffering from a Big East identity crisis, he also believes Miami would be a great conference rival for Florida State.
But the former FSU president denies he ever threatened to pull the Seminoles out of the ACC in 2001 if the conference didn't expand by adding the Hurricanes.
"The words never crossed my lips and the thought never crossed my mind," said D'Alemberte, FSU's president emeritus who is now teaching law classes again.
D'Alemberte may have never said it, ...