Exhibit 11


Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20004

October 26, 2004

STI Classic Funds
101 Federal Street
Boston, Massachusetts  02110

Re:  Opinion of Counsel Relating to the Registration Statement Filed on Form
     N-14 Under the Securities Act of 1933


Ladies and Gentlemen:

We refer to the registration statement on Form N-14 (the "Registration
Statement") of the STI Classic Funds (the "Trust"), a Massachusetts business
trust, with respect to the Trust's Information and Technology Fund (the "Selling
Fund"), relating to the transfer of all the assets and stated liabilities of the
Selling Fund in exchange for shares of the Trust's Aggressive Growth Stock Fund
(the "Acquiring Fund"), followed by the distribution to the Selling Fund's
shareholders of the Acquiring Fund's shares in exchange for the Selling Fund's
shares in complete liquidation of the Selling Fund.

We have been requested by the Trust to furnish this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. With your permission, all assumptions and statements of
reliance herein have been made without any independent investigation or
verification on our part except to the extent otherwise expressly stated, and we
express no opinion with respect to the subject matter or accuracy of such
assumptions or items relied upon.

In connection with this opinion, we have reviewed, among other things, copies of
the following documents:

     (a)  a certificate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as to the existence
          of the Trust, which is duly authorized and validly existing under the
          laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts;

     (b)  copies of the Trust's Agreement and Declaration of Trust and of all
          amendments and all supplements thereto (the "Declaration of Trust");

     (c)  a certificate executed by Julie Powers, the Assistant Secretary of the
          Trust, certifying to and attaching copies of the Trust's Declaration
          of Trust and

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                  Amended and Restated By-Laws, and certain resolutions
                  adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Trust authorizing
                  the issuance of the shares; and

         (d)      a printer's proof of the Registration Statement.

In our capacity as counsel to the Trust, we have examined the originals, or
certified, conformed or reproduced copies, of all records, agreements,
instruments and documents as we have deemed relevant or necessary as the basis
for the opinion hereinafter expressed. In all such examinations, we have assumed
the legal capacity of all natural persons executing documents, the genuineness
of all signatures, the authenticity of all original or cerztified copies, and
the conformity to original or certified copies of all copies submitted to us as
conformed or reproduced copies. As to various questions of fact relevant to such
opinion, we have relied upon, and assume the accuracy of, certificates and oral
or written statements of public officials and officers or representatives of the
Trust. We have assumed that the Registration Statement, as filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, will be in substantially the form of the
printer's proof referred to in paragraph (d) above.

          Based upon, and subject to, the limitations set forth herein, we are
          of the opinion that the issuance of the Acquiring Fund's shares by the
          Trust has been duly and validly authorized by all appropriate action
          and, upon delivery thereof and payment therefor in accordance with the
          Registration Statement, the Acquiring Fund's shares, when issued, will
          be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable under the laws of the
          Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement on Form N-14. In giving this consent, we do not concede
that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7
of the 1933 Act.

Very truly yours,


/s/ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP