9 game fb schedule vote coming

[ThePanthers]

Christ if the Big Ten can figure out that geographically aligned divisions is the way to go, how the hell can the ACC not see it......It's cleaner and makes it easier for everyone

The northern teams want to get into the south more often though for recruiting purposes. You don't have the south in the BIG.

 

[ThePanthers]

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/teel-blog/dp-teel-time-acc-nine-vote-post.html


Teel talking about the ACC AD vote to either go to 9 conference games and 1 P5 OOC, or 8 conference games and 2 P5 schools.

This was part of the negotiations for the ACC Network, so it is either or.

Will be interesting. I see merits on both sides. Personally I would love 9 conference games because I think the schools should play each other more often, but I also understand the other side to allow for more flexibility for OOC games.

It will be difficult for every program to schedule 2 P5 schools every single year, although the SEC rivalries and ND rotation will help.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

I think 9 will win as enough AD's don't want to deal with trying daily to find games anymore.
I'll guess 2 of Miami, va tech, pitt will flip.

 

[topdecktiger]

Well that's stupid. Duke and Wake fans dont care about the Duke/Wake game as evidenced by the annual horrible attendance.......but the administrators demand it be played? Makes sense.

In any event, Pitt/Syr, Lou/UVa, and VT/BC must not be protected. I would rather play Louisville and BC a little more and Syracuse a little less.

Doesn't matter if you think it's stupid. That's the way the schools want it. Notice that North Carolina and Wake Forest signed up to play each other non-conference. The fans themselves don't really care about that game either. But, it's happening, and by taking the unusual step of scheduling it non-conference. That just illustrates the point. The administrations of these Tobacco Road schools simply want to play each other. If it was just up to fans, UNC/WF wouldn't be scheduled as a non-conference game. There isn't a clamor for it from the fans. Same thing applies with Duke/Wake Forest.

What I'm trying to get across is, you have to get this idea out of your head that things are going to work out they way you think it's logical. These schools have certain preferences, and they simply aren't giving them up. You have do deal with the reality of the situation, even if you don't like it.

Christ if the Big Ten can figure out that geographically aligned divisions is the way to go, how the hell can the ACC not see it......It's cleaner and makes it easier for everyone

Great point, and why Miami with FSU with Duke, Wake, UNC, NCS, and GT, make more sense but UNC's Alumnus Swofford is just dumb on that subject, in y opinion. BC, Cuse, PITT, Uva, VT, ULou, & Clemson are a better fit!

Additionally, Notre Dame has far more Traditional Rivalry with Pitt and BC than any other ACC program. Swofford should announce his retirement like Big ten Jim Delany did and the sooner the better.

Again, this isn't Swofford. There is a simple reason the ACC doesn't have geographic divisions: Miami and Florida St didn't want it. When Miami joined back in 2004, both Miami and Florida St demanded that they be in separate divisions. Once that was done, geographic divisions went out the window. Sorry, but no way Swofford was going to be able to overrule Miami and Florida St, especially given that Miami was a national power at the time.

The problem you have now is that other schools don't want geographic divisions either. Virginia Tech is specifically against because their travel expenses got cut in half after they joined the ACC. They don't want to back to playing all the Big East teams in a North/South alignment, specifically for financial reasons.

 

[ThePanthers]

To add to topdecktiger, if you read Teel's article, playing the local FCS schools like James Madison, etc is very important to the schools in Virginia and North Carolina. That is going to be another aspect to this as well.

As for the Swofford comments, the guy has done extremely well as the commissioner of the ACC. If you think when he retires the ACC is going to go to north/south divisions, they are going to be greatly disappointed. It is the schools that want it set up the way it is.

 

[PittPanthers90]

Logically the 9+1 model HAS to be the way to go:

Look at N Carolina, they had P5 teams drop agreements to play and could only find 1-AA (FCS) teams to fill in, what happens when they can't get the CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED P5 team to replace one that dropped out?

For the teams with the SEC rivalry games:
The ACC makes sure they get the 5 home conference games in years they play their rival away. This gives them a 5 home/5 away to start. Only in years when they have to play ND away will they be forced down to a 6 home/6 away season. Every other year they could buy their 2 home games to get the 7 home / 5 away split.

Yes they will have tougher seasons those years, but SOS is an important factor in playoff selection, as such this can only BETTER the league.

8+2 leaves teams and the league vulnerable contractually, and as such is an illogical proposition.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

You have do deal with the reality of the situation, even if you don't like it.

This is probably the funniest thing posted on the internet today. Well done!