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Hokie House has rail drinks called Maroon Effect and Orange Effect designed specifically to knock you on your ass. Bull & Bones Brewery makes a Maroon Effect brown ale that's quite good if it's fresh.
FCS (or 1-AA as I still call it)
I have family Iowa fans (dad grew up there), but would like to play them for that reason. They are some of the worst at taking trash talk of any fans I ever seen, but that could just be my family.
Out of deference for domicilic harmony, I would prefer never to play Iowa. I don't think I'd have too great a week afterward, especially if we beat my Hawkeye-wife's Iowa boys. Been married too long, I still have to be able to put my feet under the dinner table.
Wow, that's amazing. So simple and so effective. Home and home with each conference team every 4 years, maintenance of annual rivalries, and again, you actually play the other teams in your conference.. What a freakin' concept.
Almost could give ours a run for its money.
Atlanta Falcons.
I'm not done with you yet, Matt Ryan.
It's funny because I actually had a decent experience with Georgia fans. My dad and I shared a shuttle back to the hotel with some after that CFA Bowl. My dad pointed out that both sets of fans needed the other for the game to be meaningful, and the Georgia fans said that we were much better to deal with than the couch burning cousins they had faced the year before.
Oh I see, that makes sense. Honestly I haven't paid any attention to Clemson fans or met any, so I couldn't say or imagine them being worse than WVU fans, who I have met and attended games with. The only other school that had more annoying fans was LOLUVA, and they actually may have been more obnoxious.
It's hard to say long term. Because for every Clemson/VT matchup that gets added to the schedule, you'll have another Syracuse/UVA. It also depends on which teams get dropped from the out of conference schedule.
But like I was saying above, I think some teams are going to change their approach to their OOC schedule to maintain a certain strength of schedule. Look at Clemson. They're going to have 5 away conference games in the year that they play SC at home. With only two available non conference slots, are they going to be so bullish in scheduling another SEC team? And when they do, they are going to make sure the home game is the opposite year of the SC game.
Looking at VT, we would probably be replacing the ECU game with a ninth ACC game. ECU is a fairly consistent middle of the road team. I would consider Clemson, FSU, and Louisville to be definite upgrades over that game. However, I don't know if NC State, Syracuse, and Wake Forest would be.
I think it would be easier for ESPN to manipulate the quality of the games by trying to influence schools to schedule better out of conference games.
Besides, if other conferences start moving their rights to other networks, quality won't really matter to ESPN, because they will just need content.
Yeah, the new indoor facility they are building is seriously impressive. Almost could give ours a run for its money.
This facility isn't going to be a football practice field, more multi-purpose/corps training, but still.
It's just shocking to me how bad they are/have been at football for so long. You seriously almost forget they are DI FCS. If an FBS team schedules them and beats them by 100, it should almost still count as a loss in my mind for even scheduling them.
I like it. Toyed around with some pods. Came up with two ideas:
Idea 1:
NCSt, UNC, Duke, WF (tobacco road pod)
VT, UVA, Louisville (mid-atlantic pod)
FSU, Miami, GT, Clemson (south pod)
Syracuse, BC, Pitt (north pod)
Idea 2:
NCSt, UNC, Duke, WF (tobacco road pod)
VT, UVA, Clemson (south pod)
FSU, Miami, GT (deep south pod)
Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Louisville (north pod)
A lot of people keep focusing on 'quantity' of the games. Doesn't quality have an impact on if ESPN selects the games? Our current deal relegates some of the FCS and ugly ACC matchups to ACC/Raycom TV deals because ESPN didn't select those matchups. By going to 9 conference games don't we potentially increase the overall quality of games available?
I definitely think that this could work. The most difficult thing to overcome would be the perception of "changing" divisions each year. That would definitely confuse traditional fans (and probably some TV commentators). It would certainly make for an interesting trophy case with both "Coastal" and "Atlantic" division trophies represented.
It's funny how everyone has their stories. My wife hates Georgia fans because at the Peach Bowl some Georgia fans ransacked and stole some MV color guard girls' personal bags. Later, other guard girls got beer poured on them by Bama fans right before they went on the field in the Georgia Dome at halftime.
So she hates Georgia and Bama fans with a fiery passion. I hate Clemson fans, mostly due to what I saw at a VT baseball game circa 2006, along with what Chris described above about the younger fans.
And of course we both hate UVA.
And everybody has their personal stories of good and bad run ins with certain fanbases. I guess it doesn't do much good to paint with such a widebrush. But I will say that I haven't heard one ill word spoken about anyone from Nebraska.
I did the rough math, and put up a scenario at my blog: http://cfarena.blogspot.com/2016/06/looking-at-9-game-acc-schedule.html
The short version is that this season, the ACC TV package has 91 games. If we added a ninth conference game, it would likely not affect that overall number by more than a few games. A few teams, like us and GT would just be trading one home game for another. Most of the Atlantic teams would be replacing an away OOC game. If they replaced a home game, then ESPN would actually be losing a game.
Looking into the future, we have to assume that most years will see 7 teams with 7 home games, and 7 teams with 6. That still equals 91 games.
If we max out, and play all OOC games at home, that's 7 teams with 8 games, and 7 with 7. That's 105, but we have to subtract 2 or 3 for Notre Dame to play at home, and then 1 or 3 for the SEC rivalries. So, at the most, ESPN would be getting somewhere between 99 and 102 games. But that would be highly unlikely.
So, it could improve the quality of some individual games, but it could also keep the overall quality around the same, as teams would learn to schedule around the ninth game to attempt to maintain their current strength of schedule.
Home and home with Colorado or Washington.
Because...reasons
Or the Steelers
Yes! All the games in Charlotte. I concur.
Wow. I cannot believe I do not remember that. I've tried to drink enough to forget a loss, and have been know to start really early when expecting one, but I was so successful for that game I forgot I succeeded, which I guess made it a success, at least until you messed it up with facts.
Next thing you'll tell me is we have played at FedEx field before. /s
We need to adopt this proposal a SEC fan made a few years ago.
I'm gonna post this on almost EVERY thread regarding LOLUVA.
That's what they are doing. They have the South Carolina game at home. When Clemson schedules another SEC team, they try to keep it opposite of where the SC game is, because they don't want to go to two SEC stadiums in a year.
Actually, Maryville High has fielded several state championship teams over the last decade.