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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I think the scheduling concerns are way overblown and saying it's hard is a cop-out.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards this thought myself.
There's 64 Power 5 schools in conferences, plus ND. I'm trying to come up with a quick dirty math example for showing how they can schedule, but it's not coming so easy. So I'm just going to break it down by conference, assuming that everyone makes a rule to schedule two P5 teams. And number of conference vs. non-conference games doesn't matter, because everyone has at least 3 non-conference slots in their schedule, and will likely be filling that last spot or two with G5 or FCS.
The ACC, SEC, and Big Ten have 51 schools to choose from to fill those two slots. The Pac-12 has 53 schools to choose from, and the Big 12 has 55.
It can be done, and for the schools who already have built in rivals across conferences, then they only have to fill one of those slots a year.
Absolutely agree. It was a huge mistake to inject politics in the stadium selection anyway. WIth this precedent there are no end of issues on either side of the aisle that can now be used to wreck any stadium choice at any time. Next somebody will insist we have to drop UNC, Wake Forest, Duke et al from the ACC because they are supported by the evil people of NC. Maybe the SEC will now refuse to host games with ACC opponents. It is absolutely ridiculous for the ACC to pick this fight.
In the past, sporting events have historically united people without any reference to politics. The ACC has really made a boneheaded move to start this mess and divide us politically. Just play football and let people make their own political decisions outside of the ACC. Just play football for gosh sakes.
I'll admit that I never got the key thing, myself.
Wait... what?
9" on Bucky shouldn't even be above the sole of his cleats.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Worked out well for us in 2007 and 2008. I mean, rematches aren't ideal but they're inevitable. I just think the best bet for the ACC going forward is to level the playing field for divisional records, and let everyone kind of go wild in cross divisional play. Ideally, I'd love to set the divisions up so that everyone is cross divisional paired with their biggest rival (VT-UVa, Miami-FSU, UNC-NCSU, GT-Clemson, Duke-Wake, and then some mix of BC, UofL, Cuse, and Pitt) and have everyone square off during ACC Rivalry Week, which we could work with ESPN and the new ACC Network to promote the shit out of.
We have Aiden Brown committed, looks like a C/G type. Pushing hard for Hunt and Becton, both OT types. Presumably still expecting Silas Dzansi from last years class to matriculate this January. Hopple, Kearns, Jackson from last years class are all redshirting (I didn't include Demetri Moore since he's a junior)
I'm trying for the Manning Lot. Any Hokies are welcome to join us. Just look for the Fighting Gobbler Trailer.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. If they do this, hopefully for fairness they will have everyone in one division have the same number of ACC road games.
Already covered this when this topic was first started: http://www.thekeyplay.com/comment/434348#comment-434348
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# | Slept On It: Hokies Trounce East Carolina in Complete Win The Tar Heel D still can't tackle a lick, but no one seems able to stop the passing game, either. Will the offense be enough to beat a rested Virginia Tech? It had better be, because the Hokies will run wild.
Yeah... people are saying that about us...
Remember all those years when it was about the opponent needing to beat Bud Foster to get the win, and how tough that would be in a given week? Now they're saying the same about our offense and Fuente. But here's the kicker... the defense is still there.
Yeah, we could do some real damage in the ACC over the next few years.
How are we stocked for OL for the next few seasons?
I noticed on 247 we don't seem to have many commits.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I actually really like that idea. However, I can see where it will get tripped up. If GT wins the division and lost their cross divisional games only to have to play a team they already lost to in the ACCCG, is that really a good idea?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Can someone tell me why that's a good thing?
Idk, maybe he's just really "chill"
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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9 years 10 months
# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Oh, lets go down this rabbit hole, thanks for bringing it up!
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. Should eliminate the issues with unbalanced schedules, and doesn't mean that teams like GT are always at a disadvantage when their permanent crossover is someone like Clemson when VT is stuck playing Boston College. It should allow the cream of each division to rise to the top each year to provide a better championship game.
Thoughts?
So your saying yelling at the top of lungs Take it to the F!@#ing House when surrounded by OSU fans when this happened was not cool. Will keep that in mind...
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. Yep, and they're certainly not going to put their best players on the field, at risk of injury, if the win won't matter. So you're going to get the scout team from the FBS team vs. the FCS squad, with no one wanting to attend, just so the FBS team can pay money to the FCS team. That's a huge net-loss for the FBS program and I don't see anyone being that altruistic just to make sure the FCS program can keep itself running.
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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. another big thing is that if you have to make a scheduling change once every other FBS school has more or less locked down their schedules, you can always turn to that many more FCS schools that may have an open date or be willing to shaft another FCS foe to make a payday against FBS.
Looked incidental to me.
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# | 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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# | Teel Time, ACC Athletic Directors to vote on 8 or 9 game conference schedule Friday. I like the 9+1, because we need to play other teams in our conference more than once every 6 years. If they do this, hopefully for fairness they will have everyone in one division have the same number of ACC road games. One division has 5 road games and four home games, and then the next year have 5 home games and four road games. Clemson can still have 7 home games in years they have 5 ACC road games, if they align the South Carolina series with the ACC schedule. If every odd year they play at South Carolina, then every odd year the Atlantic Division should have 4 ACC road games. I know this would get complicated with FSU, Louisville, and GT too and someone might have to one-time play two straight road games against their OOC rival, but a one year correction in the schedule would result in nice future scheduling.
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# | Virginia Tech's "Explosive Offense" Stands Out for Prospects Visiting for September Games in Lane South Carolina (this one is a personal hatred), Mississippi, and Alabama want a word with you
Not sure if it's already been discussed, but do you guys think the hit on Bucky at 9" was cheap or not?
Ameer in a lot of languages means Rich/wealthy. So we get a guy who is rich in speed.