Tonight marks a milestone: It’s the final time that a UNC game will appear exclusively on Raycom. If you’re my age or younger, it’s definitely worth a pause to realize just how monumental the Raycom/Jefferson Pilot sports network was. In the days before cable, it’s how you watched your team play. Thanks to Carolina being a national team when the network was created, they were featured prominently on this syndicated network of stations that reached from Florida up to Maryland. In the old days of the eight- and nine- team ACC, every game felt like a big event.
As someone who is living in Boston, however, I have to say I’m happy for life to move on and for ESPN’s ACC Network to come.