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Head to head is a pretty terrible metric when you have a huge field participating in an extremely small sample size.
UNC also just beat Florida State who has probably the 3rd or 4th most stacked roster in the nation, while we've yet to show up to a good opponent. Let's pump all the brakes a bit, we're underdogs and deservedly so.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. we get Clemson, who is en route to a 1-11 season
This would be worth the price of admission (as long as we weren't their 1 win).......
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I was listening to ESPN radio during games on Saturday, and they reiterated that the ACC Atlantic might be the toughest division in the country. They were quick to dismiss the Coastal, which is fine, because we really have done nothing to prove ourselves.... yet
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Lets not pretend the SEC wasn't rolling before Alabama became Alabama. They had already rolled up 4 natty titles in 6 years (3 in a row) before Alabama got their first of the Saban era. They already had the reputation of being the best conference, and Bama just drilled the point home, and reinforced that the best team out of the SEC was the best team in the country.
That being said, that perception is starting to shatter as well, and the SEC is very quickly falling to "Alabama and a bunch of others". While that's good for Bama, that's absolutely not good for the conference.
Not trying to be dick-ish, and will defer to your military experience ( thank you for your service ), but Wiki seems like we both are correct:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet
I also was semi-quoting Coach, but either way, we have our work cut out for us. Thanks for the heads up & have a leg for the reply!
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I also heard that ECU will get the ax if the 9 game schedule passes.
And what have you heard will happen if the 8+2 passes? Because one of the two options is going to happen - and logically the impact on the ECU series should be the same either way, no?
Glad the kid had surgery at the end of last season. It was really awkward to watch him jog the court on one tiptoe and one flatfoot. You could even see his in-desire to put weight on it in his free throw attempts. I respect this kid's hustle 100%. KB is the baby-faced killer.
Here is hoping he'll be healthy amidst the season., we'll need his paint presence and athletics down low! Plus he was just getting some rhythm going on that outside game towards last season's end.
Well fernley, you just got me interested. What a good idea. The jingling of the keys on an offensive play is a great way to make some sort of noise while showing enthusiasm without making enough noise to bother the offense. A symbolic noise, if you will. I like it.
That actually sounds like a pretty great evening. As long as we play double dash or melee.
Have you seen finebaum with those ears? He hears things us mortals can't
Now to get them to give us these time slots for games at Lane, and I'll be happy.
Rumors have it that Texas boosters will pay any amount of money for a buyout. Of course that could just be Finebaum writing his own headline, but I wouldn't rule it out by any means.
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I agree that ECU every year is terrible. It's also irrelevent.
We know know that all ACC programs are going to have to have 10 P5's on the schedule regardless of whether it's 8+2 or 9+1, so the impact on future ECU games will be the same whichever direction the league chooses to go.
And when I look at the currently scheduled and potential P5 OOC games, they are better than adding an extra Atlantic division game each year.
http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/12/04/tom-herman-contract-extens...
Basically $2.5M, but could be less. My guess is that Texas wouldn't blink an eye to pay it to get him.
According to Auburn fans they were Jerod Evans' top choice but Mahlzan told him they weren't taking a juco quarterback this year. Then they turned around and offered Franklin III (who couldn't even hold the starting job at his juco if netflix tv shows are to believed) as an "athlete" and immediately convert him to qb. Pretty big miss for a coach on a hot seat in desperate need for a quarterback.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Yeah, there is something historic about 4 OOC games. When it was an 11 game season, almost every conference was 8 teams so you have 4 OOC games.
apparently jimbo was ->THIS <- close to leaving for LSU last year before they decided to keep Les...
...before firing him less than a year later anyway.
Since we're going to win the rest of our games, we're going to be ranked anyway...why not now?
What were the details on Herman's extension. He was the hottest name in coaching last season too. I thought Houston gave him another big raise and some years, was there a significant enough buyout that he might be coaching the Cougs again next season? Does a top 5 program not give a shit and pay the buyout for him?
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. How can you argue that 2 P5's are a challenge? What big challenge was presented by Wisconsin's postponements? Probably about the same as the challenges that would be necessitated by adding a 9th conference game to schedules already locked for future years.
What "assistance" is required to schedule 2 OOC P5 games? It's basically a zero sum game. It's not like ACC teams are the only ones looking for games. And frankly if any P5 schools have scheduling problems, VT isn't going to be one of them. As I've said before, VT and VT fans comes out on the long end of the stick in the 8+2 format and less so in the 9+1.
The point is that neither presents a scheduling challenge. Either way, a 9 game unbalanced conference schedule - 5 home, 4 away or vice versa - is a much bigger issue than any scheduling challenge.
He's from Tulsa though, grew up there, and was a bit of a star in high school ball. Even if his playing there didn't work out, he could still have some sort of pull home (total speculation, just saying it's not unthinkable).
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. the SEC has been elevated by the SEC West and ESPN for a decade
don't forget the most important part...perception is shaped by the media, no matter how much you might not want to believe it. Until ESPN starts treating the ACC like it's legit the national perception that the ACC is a little brother P5 conference is going to be tough to change.
I know it's just a ranking and I'm not supposed to be excited, but just let us have a moment and enjoy that VT has a little number beside the name again. I'll return to being cynical Hokie fan tomorrow. Crisp high fives all around! 
They have a bunch of talent, but they are not a good team this year, at least not right now.