Point your Web browser to www. theacc.com and hit return. Within seconds you'll be greeted by a parade of colorful logos from the nine member schools of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the scrappy eastern flank of the NCAA. The ACC site offers a chat room for fans, links to the universities and the latest conference poop.
But where are the girls? If you're a true ACC devotee, you know that the women are incomparable--sweet as blackstrap molasses, sharp as Georgia pine needles and as beautiful as a cloudless Carolina sky.
Maybe we can help here.
When Playboy first dropped in on the ACC in September 1983, we dubbed the women "the cream of the crop." Our revisit in April 1990 proved our point. But things have changed since then. For one thing, Florida State University joined the lineup in 1991, adding a whiff of the ocean to the conference known for its forests and rolling green hills. FSU also upped the conference's beauty quotient.
Clearly we had a mission. To get a more detailed picture of the new and improved ACC, we sent Contributing Photographers David Chan and David Mecey. Did these guys ace their assignment? Would we be running this if they hadn't?
