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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. If you can schedule the ND game as an of division conference game,
No. It just doesn't work. Besides, that type of scenario basically turns ND into a conference member, which isn't happening.
You would have to change the number of ACC teams that ND plays per year to make the math work. You would probably need to have ND play 7 ACC games a year, and flipflop between the two divisions. But that wouldn't work, because if they play all of the Atlantic teams in a given year, then that's the ninth game for all of them, and there's no one left for the Coastal teams to play in their ninth game.
In case anyone is having a hard time envisioning this scenario, let's use this year's schedule. We already play BC and Syracuse. So, our ninth conference game would pick a team from the pool of FSU, Clemson, Louisville, NC State, and Wake. However, all of those schools would have had their ninth game filled by ND, meaning there's no one left in the pool.
Perhaps it can be "fixed" by having ND play 3 teams from one division and 4 from another, but good grief, now we're getting way too complicated.
Not to mention the headaches it would induce in the tiebreaking procedures for determining who goes to the ACCCG. And you know that the ACC will always find a way to get down to the 5th level of tiebreaking.
I'm with you. We got 10" in about 28 hours last Thurs-Fri. Several roads washed out and record flooding levels. It was so bad that the swim portion of the IronMan was cancelled and the bike portion reduced down to 100 miles. I can't handle more rain and hurricane winds on top of that.
I brought GameCube and some Natty Ice. Let's listen to some Dave Mattews and bro out!
I doubt you were the first in your section to drop an f-bomb by that point in the game so I think you're good. Especially because at the exact same time, a few thousand Buckeyes probably yelled, "Who the fuck is he throwing it to?"
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. The 7 home games among the blue bloods is pretty common. Sometimes they even manage to pull 8 home games in a year. I know Tech has had 7 home games in at at least one season (2004) before. Right now our 2018 schedule has 7 home games. We just don't have deep enough pockets to pay G5 teams to just come to us like the blue bloods do, or I am sure Whit would be trying to do 7 games on a regular basis. The 2004 season was part of a home-away-home with Western Michigan, so maybe that is an option.
Very glad to hear the surgery was five days after the last season ended. Too many times you hear about the surgery getting put off until closer to the new season.
The Football Insiders FPI based ranking has us at 14 and UVA at like 78. Much more accurate IMHO.
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Personally, I think divisional records should be the only thing that counts for divisional standings should be your record in divisional play. Records in ACC play can get slotted into one of the various tiebreaker scenarios, but only count divisional play for standings.
So...
1.) Divisional record.
2.) Head-to-head.
3.) Conference record.
Let me just look over and see how that would have affected any ACCCGs...
2005 - Instead of FSU vs. VT, we would have gotten BC vs. Miami. Both Miami and VT had 1 loss in division, but Miami had head-to-head. Even though FSU beat BC, BC was only 4-1 in division, while FSU was 3-2.
2006 would have been the same. (GT/WF)
2007 - VT still would go for Coastal (only loss was to Atlantic). But, we would have played Clemson, who had 3 conference losses, but only one of those was from the division. BC lost two divisional games.
2008-2011 would have been the same.
From 2012 on, I'm just looking at the Coastal, because the Atlantic was usually taken by FSU or Clemson running the table. I'm not even looking at 2012 because of all of the sanctions on the Coastal side.
2013 - VT would have gone to the ACCCG as Coastal champs instead of Duke. We were 5-1 in division. Our loss was to Duke, but they were 4-2 in division.
2014 - UNC would have gone instead of Georgia Tech. While GT was 6-2 in conference, both of those losses were in the division. UNC was 4-4, but went 4-2 in division. UNC beat GT in head-to-head.
2015 would have been the same since both teams were 8-0 in conference play.
Changing up the tiebreakers certainly makes it more interesting in figuring out the champ.
Pretty sure they still have the same AD and basketball coach.
CJF is a mastermind... period.
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9 years 10 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.
Will the offense be enough to beat a rested Virginia Tech? It had better be, because the Hokies will run wild.
I. LOVE. THIS. Is this what respect feels like guys?
EDIT: dammit Alum, there's no way I can TKP harder than you...
Sweet, thanks.
I wish I'd gotten my bet in when it was still UNC -6.5 Oh well, still going to do well when we beat them...
Rankings don't mean shit until after the conference title game. Talk to me about it then.
Yadda yadda yadda, Linus has a new security blanket and its called Fuenteball
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Neither the Texas legislature nor the Governor will allow the sips to abandon the rest of the Texas schools. They don't all have to end up in the same place (see aTm) but if they don't all have a soft landing spot, no one's going anywhere.
I think the most likely outcome is that the texahoma conference adds Houston and others as needed, at least until (unless?) a breakaway republic happens. We keep the "power 5" concept for the foreseeable future and the playoff eventually expands to 8 teams: the five P5 conference champions and 3 at-large selections. The key question for the ACC will be whether we can put sufficient pressure on ND to join before that expansion happens. If not, they will stay independent and the ACC will add Cinci+1 to get to 16 (assuming the B12 didn't grab Cinci with Houston).
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. If you can schedule the ND game as an of division conference game, then 9 game ACC schedule plus a P5, Group of 5 and a FCS opponent makes a lot of sense. Would ACC schools accept ND game as such.
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Oh, I love this idea as well...
The problem is that, with so many of the ACC front office having degrees from UNC, I don't trust them to accurately plan and implement something that can't be easily drawn in crayon.
Why all the angst and double guessing the fact we're ranked? Can we not just enjoy the fact we're 3-1, just scored over 100 points combined over the last 2 games against FBS opponents (2 teams we were a combined 1-3 against the last 2 seasons) and people are starting to believe in us? Nobody, and I mean nobody, believed in us before this season started, and now we're ranked in Week 5.
Oh, and the spread for the game this weekend opened at what, UNC -6.5 and quickly dropped to UNC -2.5. Someone believes in us, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that line tilt towards our favor prior to kickoff.
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Hmm...it'd have to be a two part Rivalry Week, running the last two weeks of the season, to accommodate the SEC games.
Week 1: Miami/FSU, Clemson/GT, BC/Louisville
Week 2: VT/UVA, UNC/NC State, Duke/Wake, Pitt/Cuse, FSU/Florida, Clemson/SC, Louisville/Kentucky, GT/UGA
And Notre Dame could be facing off with Navy, USC, or Stanford.
Shoot, they could schedule that now.
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9 years 10 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.
T.L. Hanna huh? I'm from Spartanburg and went to Dorman. Always enjoyed playing Hanna and meeting radio.