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I have to agree with Random Hokie. I've always thought this forum's interest bordering on obsession in what we wear is a trifle odd.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Ditto.
The ACC Wheel of Destiny is put to bed. ACC is legit. I'm just pissed we didn't have a role in legitimizing it.
First thing I thought when I saw it. That's a kickoff time, I'd imagine.
It's almost like Fuente is the Platonic Form of a coach. If you asked me what I thought the ideal coach response to something was, Fuente is basically batting 1.000 at giving those responses.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. How can you argue that?
With a nine conference game setup, the ACC hands us a nine game schedule. That's it. That's the level of commitment have: accepting the schedule we're given.
With the 8+2, we have the mandate to schedule two P5 opponents, and no assistance in actually scheduling them. Of all non-conference games, a P5 is the most difficult to schedule. P5 programs often have their non-conference games scheduled years in advance. (See the future schedules section of HokieSports as an example.) So when does the mandate start? Immediately? Good luck.
And P5 non-conference games are notorious for postponements. Wisconsin has postponed our home and home two or three times now. With a two game mandate, if a P5 opponent postpones/cancels and we're required to replace that game with another P5, that's going to be basically impossible on short notice.
No, it's not even in the same zip code as far as scheduling difficulty is concerned. The 9+1 format would actually make scheduling easier for the AD (by reducing non-conference games needing to be scheduled from 4 to 3 each year), while the 8+2 completely handcuffs the AD and might damn well require the impossible. The only way an 8+2 might work is if they allow counting ND as a P5 opponent and also enter into an agreement with another P5 conference akin to the B1G/ACC Challenge in hoops.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. They might go for counting ND as a P5 opponent. They'll never let it count as one of the 9 conference games, because it isn't.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I want rotating divisions. Two pods of four, two pods of three. Pods based on geographical proximity. A pod of four gets grouped with a pod of three for two seasons to form a division. The division plays a home and home with each other.
After two seasons, they swap out, so the pod of four makes a division with the other pod of three. Another home and home ensues.
The pods with the same number of teams never gets paired. Instead, they cycle through each other as rivals to fill out the rest of the conference schedule.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. FBS schools will never pay that money for games that don't count.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Good luck.
They can only stay on that bandwagon for so long. Eventually we'll either prove them wrong or prove them right. No sense even addressing that criticism in week 6.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. At this point I'm ready to support just about anything that would piss off Dabo Swinney.
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9 years 9 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. 8+2 would be a scheduling nightmare. I know P5 matchups are popular, but I don't think many people realize how much of a nightmare it is to schedule them. It's telling that the staunchest supporters of that model already have an annual game with a P5. Everyone else would be scrambling. The only real solution I see would be if they allowed programs to count AAC opponents as one of the two P5 requirements. And in that case, our schedule looks exactly like it looks now. On the other hand, 9+1 would help it feel slightly less like the Coastal and Atlantic are in the same conference in name only.
Get right, Kerry. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.
Holy crap, I can't believe every player who started against BYE decided to follow Alabama's backup QB in transferring midseason. Looks like we're back to the old depth chart against UNC.
Beamer's number. Victory is assured.
I haven't quite gotten my finger on Fuente's pulse yet, but I would bet his strategy would be to flip the script. No congrats on the ranking at all.
"So people have started to pay us some attention. If you fall short now, people are going to notice. It's one thing to stumble when no one expects anything out of you. But to stumble when others expect greatness of you? That's how you lose credibility."
Somebody needs to do this gif with Beamer whispering into Fuente's ear.
I had the exact opposite experience. I was pretty dickish going in. Started a "Let's Go! Hokies!" chant on the way in the gate because a big group of Hokies had a smaller group of BSU fans kind of surrounded as we moved toward the gates, so we were all basically shouting right at them. I guess in the grand scheme of things, starting a cheer isn't that dickish, but I was doing it to be loud and intimidating. So at least somewhat dickish.
After the game, we tore into what was left of our tailgating cooler (for those at the game, you know the lots did not open nearly early enough to provide for a full tailgate). There were some Boise State fans who walked past us, obviously trying to just get to their cars. I yelled after them and they turned back, obviously gearing up for a confrontation, and I said, "I hope you guys win the whole fucking thing now."
Offered them a beer and hung out while the ungodly traffic cleared out. I mean, they straight up outplayed us. I didn't see any reason to be salty about that to their fans.
UCF is no slouch. They took Maryland to OT in College Park. Admittedly, Maryland isn't a P5 behemoth, but it's still a G5 giving a P5 all they can handle. Plus ECU had 5 turnovers against UCF. They only had one against us.
I'm not saying we're as good as we looked against ECU. I'm just saying it's probably better not to try to extrapolate anything about us from the outcome of UCF/ECU.
While I love Lane at night, 3:30 is probably the best all around time slot for actually attending the game. Sufficient tailgating time and the ability to make it home before midnight for most people in attendance.
Chasing points there is classic Dabo idiocy. If Louisville scored a TD here, it's a two score game.
#Clemsoning
I'm more interested in what Jerod Evans could do to these teams.
God that is one classless fanbase.
This is exactly the attitude I want the team and coaches to have. As for us fans, I don't think there's anything wrong with reveling in our return to the rankings a little.