OK, Now I'm Really Pissed

My hatred of John Swofford and the ACC expansion his reign of terror as conference commissioner hath wrought is well-documented. But, in the words of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "you ain't seen n-n-n-nothin yet."
The ACC and Big 10 released the slate of games for their annual challenge yesterday; 11 games in three nights, highlighted by Greg Oden's Ohio State Buckeyes headed to Chapel Hill for a showdown with a UNC team that will likely start the season ranked #2 in the country. With 11 teams in the improperly-named Big 10 (vs. 12 in the ACC), there are only 11 games to be played, meaning one ACC team gets left in the cold. In 2006, that team will be the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
What. The. Fuck.
Words can't even described how furious I am right now. (I'm about to defend Skip Prosser for crap's sake, which should shed some light into my surprising fury over a snub from a made-for-ESPN event.) How could they leave Wake out while including three bastardized Big East rejects? (Hell, Big East reject is a term too kind for Virginia Tech and Miami, schools that didn't enter the Big East until after Vanilla Ice's popularity had come and gone.)
How could Clemson, a school whose basketball history George Mason can now mock, get a game when Wake Forest, the home of Dickie Henric, Tim Duncan and Chris Paul, gets left in Winston-Salem to playing freakin' App. State? Aaaaahhhhh, it's so damn infuriating. I'm going to need the cathartic rush that only list-making can give.
ACC Teams invited to the "ACC/Big 10 Challenge"
Boston College - If those Duke lacrosse players get convicted and, subsequently, thrown out of Duke, I'm sure Al Skinner would have no problem giving them a scholarship.
Clemson - When your claim to fame is losing 42 straight games in Chapel Hill, it's time to reevaluate the practicality of having a basketball program.
Florida State - They last time they made the Tournament, Monica Lewinsky's dress was the lead story on the news.
Maryland - Wake might be bad next year, but Maryland's going to be so bad some people actually believed Gary Williams might have even thought about taking the Charlotte Bobcats job.
Miami - Are Miami.
N.C. State - Homeless guys are starting to turn down the job as N.C. State head basketball coach.
Virginia Tech - Seriously, don't even get me started.
Listen, I know Wake Forest basketball doesn't have the history of a Duke or a North Carolina and, thus, don't command the same kind of respect those programs receive and deserve. And the Deacs were terrible in 2005 and figure to be worse in 2006 (although I think they'll win more than three games); but they are still a program with recent history and enough rep to nab an invite to a Challenge they've played in every year since it's founding. That they've played well in the Challenge is even more of a reason to include them. Of the 20 teams to play more than six games in the Challenge, Wake has the second-best record of all of them. (Only Duke has a better record than Wake's 6-1 Challenge mark.)
It's not as if Virginia Tech or Miami is going to be so good in 2006-07 that they need to be on TV. It's not like N.C. State is going to be sneaking around the top ten. Wake got shafted because they're the school with the smallest enrollment, by far, in the ACC and, as a result, has the fewest alumni to watch games and get ESPN advertising dollars. I don't begrudge ESPN's right to pick VT over Wake, that's their prerogative as rights holder to the event. But John Swofford negotiates that deal and should have stepped up and demanded that Wake Forest, a founding member of the ACC, be included in the Challenge that bears it conference's name. If he wants Virginia Tech to be in a challenge, they can rename it the Convicted Felons/Big 10 Challenge and put it on CourtTV.
Shit.