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hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 9 years 9 months # | Hatin' On Larry Fedora

I believe that was their "empty seat effect" game. It's a thing at UNC, Duke, and LOLUVa, among others. Huge turnout and saves tens of dollars in photo-shopping costs.

shakeitallabout's picture shakeitallabout | 9 years 9 months # | 2016 Coach Hot Seat and Carousel

Why on earth would Kingsbury leave the head coaching position at his alma mater to be Alabama's OC??

shokie83's picture shokie83 | 9 years 9 months # | Hatin' On Larry Fedora

Larry Fedora though this was a pretty good crowd at their home game vs. Illinois:

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| 9 years 9 months # | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday.

You want your good teams playing as often as they can in meaningful games. If you throw all the top programs in the same division, you're guaranteeing 75% of them will be left out of the conference title game. While you have a round robin among them over the season, only one can come on top, and there's a good chance that at least 1, possibly 2 of the matchups between all 4 are meaningless over the season. By splitting them up, while you might lose one of the matchups through the year (I would say VT and Clemson should be paired as well as FSU and Miami, but that's another story) you're also setting the stage for a defacto 4 team playoff for the conference title every year. And should anyone else in the conference be good enough to join that discussion, even better.

We kind of have that now, but the problem is that the conference muddied the waters by screwing up the schedules when they added UofL and Syracuse. Clemson, FSU, Miami, and VT should never have to travel to NC twice in the same season, unless its for a cross divisional game, and you should try and split the home and away of the ACC Tier 2 programs in each division for them. Right now, this isn't the case. They should fix that.

cds7c's picture cds7c | 9 years 9 months # | Hatin' On Larry Fedora

Larry Fedora spits his gum in the urinal.

I would bet money he really does that.

marcb2's picture marcb2 | 9 years 9 months # | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday.

Yes, why think big when you can think small?

Let's just say for the sake of argument that a divisional alignment exists that will satisfy enough parties to vote for it over the current alignment. All that does is reshuffle the deck. Unless you somehow align it with all the better programs in one division or pod or whatever and the lesser ones in another, as a conference you're just trading one set of good games for another, one set of mediocre games for another and one set of bad games for another - and a very bad conference championship game.

How would that make the conference appreciably better positioned at present and going forward?

VThokies904's picture VThokies904 | 9 years 9 months # | Weekly Weather Report Hurricane Matthew

Leaving Jacksonville Florida around 3 tomorrow? Good idea? Or bad idea? Lol. Coming up for the game. Hopefully it'll be further up the coast in ga of sc by then?

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