This post assumes all players will be healthy, which of course rarely happens
ACC predictions for the year 2014..?
UVA won the NCAA's (barely and some would say due to a lucky but clear touching the net violation by UCLA on championship point for UCLA) over UCLA with IMO three top ten players (Jenkins, Domijan, and Frank). I am not going just by the rankings.
Losing Jenkins means UVA will not be as good, but we do return Domijan and Frank both two time winners of the All American, so we probably still have two top 5 players this year. No one has that much talent at the top unless Rola returns to OSU for the spring semester.
We will have a lot of new guys available, but we do return both Shane brothers and Styslinger. We lost our #6 guy (Uriguen), who will be easily replaced with one of the new guys or sophs. Most think Thai Kwiatkowski (spelling?) was one of the top three American recruits and some UVA people think he could play as high as #3. He has been hurt and has not played since the spring.
WF seems to be moving up and Duke while losing Cunha is recruiting very well. However, I just do not think either can actually beat UVA and will likely lose 2-5 or maybe even 1-6 when they play.
Right now Domijan is in a "boot" with apparently a broken foot and has not played competitively since last spring. Frank had to withdraw from the Knoxville challenger due to back tightness after winning in round one. If they are both healthy come this spring UVA will be favored to win it all. UCLA lost Novikov to the pros, which is sort of like us losing Jenkins. Had he returned I think UCLA would be the favorite.
UGA seems to be lurking and UCLA and USC will be very good. If Rola returns OSU will be very strong at 1 and 2, but I am not sure about their depth.
Overall I think the ACC will be slightly better instead of having just two quality teams as it has for awhile. I doubt any other ACC team will be a top 10 team, although Duke might be barely. I do think WF and UNC could crack the top 20 or maybe even top 15. New member ND is a an unknown to me.