{"id":315,"date":"2007-11-28T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T02:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/unc-takes-top-spot-in-college-athletics\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:47:05","slug":"unc-takes-top-spot-in-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/unc-takes-top-spot-in-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Takes Top Spot in College Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/1578376.jpeg?w=762&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Stack Magazine Elite 50\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Wanted to give my alma mater UNC some props for placing #1 in the\u00c2\u00a0inaugural\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Elite 50&#8221; by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stack.com\/\">STACK Magazine<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The magazine ranks athletic programs by looking at academia, performance and athletic opportunities. \u00c2\u00a0Nearby Duke University also did well placing #5. Those in-the-know can probably guess the #2 team: Stanford. Hopefully this will not go the way of the Athletic Directors Cup where we win the first year and Stanford wins every year afterwards.\u00c2\u00a0The value in this #1 ranking is that the magazine is given out to high school students. \u00c2\u00a0 High school students who include in their ranks high caliber athletes that UNC and other schools want to recruit.\u00c2\u00a0In this business, good publicity goes a long way.Other ACC schools making the Elite 50 include UVA (11), Maryland (24), Clemson (30), Boston College (31) and Wake Forest (35).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to give my alma mater UNC some props for placing #1 in the\u00c2\u00a0inaugural\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Elite 50&#8221; by\u00c2\u00a0STACK Magazine.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The magazine ranks athletic programs by looking at academia, performance and athletic opportunities. \u00c2\u00a0Nearby Duke University also did well placing #5. Those in-the-know can probably guess the #2 team: Stanford. Hopefully this will not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,42,25,2,22,41],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}