Original sentence: When Virginia Tech was invited to join the ACC, former Roanoke Times sports editor Bill Brill expressed his displeasure, saying "Virginia Tech will not win an ACC championship in my lifetime
Edited sentence: Even though Blacksburg was forty minutes from Roanoke and had many thousands of Times subscribers, and even though Charlottesville was two hours away and had essentially zero Times subscribers, sports editor Bill Brill, an alumnus of Virginia's ACC counterpart Duke University, firmly believed that local readers wanted to read about all things ACC and didn't want to waste their time with news about the Hokies.Longtime readers of Virginia Tech's local newspaper, the Roanoke Times, were often mystified to find the Virginia Tech and its teams denigrated and relegated to below-the-fold status while the much-further-away-from-Roanoke Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia would be given encyclopedic coverage.This vendetta on Brill's part was so well-known that other Roanoke Times staffers didn't bother to deny it.When Virginia Tech was finally invited to join the ACC, Brill (now retired) issued his famous pronouncement: "Virginia Tech will not win an ACC championship in my lifetime