Hokies.. the day has come where we get to look over our schedule 10000's of times and give our best case and worst case scenarios for ACC play.
Sooo what's everyone's dream scenario? Thursday Night game would have to be guaranteed especially since we did ACC a favor twice last year. Any others?
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I don't need to see the schedule. My prediction: Undefuented.
I'm already preparing my angry response to our getting shafted by the ACC again.
Every year we have to play BC it's a shaft
What, you do not like winning?
We're only 2-2 against BC in the last four years though.
Good point, but they have also given us a few tough losses (2006, 2007, 2008, 2013 were all very rough). Additionally, I think the better point is that the stupid locked crossover thing keeps us from getting to play Clemson/FSU with any regularity.
That, possibly, and the stupid removal of the 9th conference game.
FIFY
Yes but that's not the ACC's fault
*ECU
Give me a home Friday night game, preferably against UVA but GT or Miami aren't bad either if it's in late October, an away Thursday night game, and a bye week before GT. @UNC I think will be a Thursday night. Otherwise, I would rather not play GT, Miami and UNC back to back to back.
Love home Friday night games. Need to make that the new Thursday night tradition. Better TV, better travel.
You're going to be disappointed.
Eh, there's still a guaranteed 12 games that I'll watch.
This is disappointing to me. I've loved the Friday games in the last couple of seasons. The NC State game was different, but it's probably one of my favorites because it was memorable. You can always count on Friday games to be at night, and there's no rush to get back home for work the next day. I realize this is complicated for the people who work during the day and who live quite a ways away or have high school football in the fall. As long as there's one Thursday night game at home and it doesn't rain almost every freaking game like it did last year, I'm okay.
AnOSU and Duke and UNC were ok I thought. Some of the games run together.
I don't like the Friday night games personally and I could see it being an issue getting recruits to attend since they will be playing. I love Thursday night games and we better have a home one this year after playing some funky schedules for the ACC the last few years.
This is a failure of the ACC and the AD's that allow it to happen. There is no reasona. Schedule comes out end of January and only for a year at a time.
I'd rather it not come out during the season. There's plenty to talk about during the season so I like the discussion generated in the winter. With that being said, I guess they could always do it a year in advance. Like for example, the 2017 schedule come out in January of 2016.
Besides, we spend all season yelling at the ACC. Why not have something to fuel it year round!
I hate the ACC
You must not be old enough to remember the Big East days.
Both the ACC and the Big East can be inept. The ACC is solid situation for Tech, but the conference has its shortcomings too.
I don't see how my age, the Big East, or whether the two are even related has anything to do with my disdain for the ACC's management team. We're not in the Big East. We're in the ACC. I'm going to limit the extents of my dissatisfaction to something that still exists.
Cause the Big East sucked and we are in a better conference now. That is why. But yes, the ACC has its shortcomings too.
yeah, sure the ACC is a better situation for us than the BE was. I get that. There's no need to patronize me about it though. Just because I don't mention the BE doesn't mean I don't appreciate that the ACC is better for VT. I don't think there is any point in bringing up how crappy the BE was. We're in the ACC now and the league is still lagging behind all of the other major conferences in many ways. It's like saying you're thankful that we're on a solid piece of dog poo instead of the steaming heap of diarrhea over in the corner. It's still shit.
I can't say that I was patronizing you but sorry if you felt that way.
you weren't...when cds7c wrote "You must not be old enough to remember the Big East days." I took that to be kind of patronizing. I wasn't referring to what you wrote directly.
Wow, I meant it literally. Literally, if you lived through the Big East stuff, you can't be but so upset about the ACC.
But I see you apparently have a whole litany of issues against the ACC that I don't relate to. It's not an age thing, it's a "this is a more important issue to you" thing.
If you lived through the Big East, you can't possibly ever be upset about how the ACC runs things.
It's like those hungry Ethiopian kids from the 80's complaining about organic beef. Unpossible.
Or, that's like giving an Ethiopian Kid a veggie-burger when everyone else is getting a ribeye. The point isn't that we're in better shape than we were. We are. The point is that everyone around us is still ahead of the ACC. We made a big step up to the ACC but we're still playing second fiddle to the SEC, B1G, BIGXII, and PAC in many ways. I hate the ACC. I hate veggie-burgers. I wouldn't be so upset with the ACC (or veggie-burgers) if I wasn't surrounded by much better options (like the rest of the P5,,,or ribeyes)
The Big East was an incredibly unstable conference and had terrible leadership, but the original Big East was arguably a much better football conference than the ACC ever has been. Yeah, the ACC is filled with all very stable and prominent academic institutions, but the leadership needs a drastic change.
John Swofford needs to basically retire very soon. We are lagging behind other conferences significantly in TV revenue, the ACC network now is never going to happen, and I still think the conference's leadership and power brokers are too basketball-centric. And that was ultimately the downfall of the Big East - they couldn't figure out that football revenue drives the bus. Adding Pitt and 'Cuse may have been a great move for basketball, but it did nothing but dilute the ACC schedule further. Add in the fact that the ACC's proposal for more flexibility in determining a conference championship was shot down, and Clemson, FSU, Louisville, and GT are blocking the move to a 9-game schedule, the conference is essentially stuck with the status quo. It's not only a shame that Clemson/VT/Miami/UL/FSU/GT don't all play each other more often, but it's really watering down the ACC's slate of regular season games. The best football teams need to be playing each other, and it's a travesty when cross divisional schools will host each other less than once a decade.
I refuse to be excited about an ACC schedule until they announce that are moving to a nine game ACC schedule thus ensuring that every team plays each other at least once every three years. 6 Division games, and 3 cross - division games. One permanent - 2 rotating.
As for the Clemson, GT, FSU potential complaints, buck up and play up. I know one of them voted for the nine game schedule. To many teams in our conference are made fun of for their scheduling. GT, UNC, NC State - I am looking at you. More often than not, they have two FCS schools or the weakest G5 schools they can find on their schedules.
other side of fence.
Clemson and FSU both enjoy the fact that they don't play us except every 4-6 years.. both teams have legit rivalries in the SEC and adding a 9th game ACC game would provide 0 benefits for them.
Clemson gets to play Auburn and South Carolina...
FSu gets to play Ole Miss and UF
Never happen no school will take 9 conference games, ND and SEC rivalry game as their schedule.
I have no idea how they're going to do it, but I'm preparing myself for total and utter disappointment. #goacc
yeah no doubt! It seems like every year since ~2008 our schedule has gotten progressively worse. Every single year I say something like "There's no way our schedule can possibly be worse than it was last year" and every single year the ACC proves me wrong. It's amazing. I've given up hope. I have come to terms with the fact that we're going to have a crappy schedule. I'm still going to root for the team every saturday (or thursday...or friday) all season long. Go Hokies.
As long as East Carolina is still on it, the schedule can't be bad.
Dear ACC,
Thanks a lot for scheduling us on [date] against [team]. You really weren't thinking that one through, were you?
You know in Blacksburg we love [weekday] night games, particularly against [team] or [team], but you didn't even consider giving us even a little [emotion] , did you? You thought, 'Oh, well we have [Blacksburg school] and we can schedule them against [team] on [date] if we want to, can't we?'. Yes, technically you can, but wouldn't you consider throwing [fanbase] a bone every now and again?
It's bad enough that we scheduled ourselves for [infinite time period] against [mid major from one state southward], but you won't even let us schedule [national runner up] or [historical power in talent rich state] for at least another [infinite time period], instead forcing us to play yearly against [boring northern Catholic non-rival school], usually at [early game time].
At least we get to play [at better Catholic school] and against [school of deluded rednecks] next year and win our [infinite time period]th-straight game against [house of douchebaggery].
[expletive] you guys.
#go[conference of incompetent scheduling]
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Sorry for bringing up such an old thread but it looks like Andy Staples of SI stole my mad lib style:
http://www.campusrush.com/college-football-preseason-feature-mad-libs-19...
Will Virginia Tech be playing? If so, gonna watch. Regardless of day/time.
Virginia Tech? must be confused for Virginia Tech University
How has the schedule not leaked by now?
UNC schedule leaked.... Oct. 8th (sat) against us.
2 minutes early!!!
Also, they play Duke on 4 days of rest and have a stretch of FSU-VT-Miami in back to back weeks.
2016 Schedule & Results
Date VT Rank Opponent Result TV Location
Sat., Sep 3, 2016 Liberty TBA Lane Stadium
Sat., Sep 10, 2016 vs. Tennessee TBA Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. - Battle at Bristol
Sat., Sep 17, 2016 Boston College * TBA Lane Stadium
Sat., Sep 24, 2016 East Carolina TBA Lane Stadium
Sat., Oct 8, 2016 at North Carolina * TBA Chapel Hill, N.C.
Sat., Oct 15, 2016 at Syracuse * TBA Syracuse, N.Y.
Thu., Oct 20, 2016 Miami * 7:30 p.m. ESPN Lane Stadium
Thu., Oct 27, 2016 at Pittsburgh * 7:30 p.m. ESPN Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sat., Nov 5, 2016 at Duke * TBA Durham, N.C.
Sat., Nov 12, 2016 Georgia Tech * TBA Lane Stadium
Sat., Nov 19, 2016 at Notre Dame TBA Notre Dame, Ind.
Sat., Nov 26, 2016 Virginia * TBA Lane Stadium
Sat., Dec 3, 2016 Atlantic vs. Coastal TBA Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, N.C. - ACC Championship
Back-to-back Thursday nights, with Miami at home. Nice.
Bad part is Pitt has a bye the wee before playing us on Thursday. We have Miami.
Time to get vacation dates in. Also really wish the ACC alternated Duke/UNC for home away games.
Don't Like:
- Miami on four days rest
- Bye Week in Week 5
Like:
-Thursday night game? That's it I guess.
hokiesports.com has it updated for 2016
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/schedule/
Short week after traveling to Syracuse. Hopefully the U is not bak
Pitt has a tough September with Penn State, OkSt, and UNC.
November 19th vs. Notre Dame also looks very much like it could be destined for primetime after looking at the other schedules.
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All in all, we actually got dealt a good hand this year. Pretty much everyone will be coming into our game beat up, and our tough games are split up until the very end.
Only home game in October is at night on short rest.