Couple ideas I have because although I think the league stinks, its not 2 or 3 out of 15 bad. Its better than the Mountain West, which will get 5 out of 11 in.
There's 20 conference games. Spread them out. Play 2 games to start the season or maybe after that first cupcake game. Try to make it a basketball/football weekend for visiting fans. The football team hosts Virginia on Nov 9 and Clemson on Nov 16. Schedule one of those teams to visit the Pete on Friday night. Playing 2 conference games early will prepare the teams better for the Thanksgiving tournaments.
- Start an ACC/Big 12 Challenge with games being played in February like the old Big 12/SEC Challenge. To take a page out of the old Bracket Busters, make the matchups about 2 weeks before the games. ESPN has half the Big 12 contract. So you figure with 7 or 8 Big 12 home games, all but 3 or 4 games in this challenge will be on ESPN. If they dont want to draw the matchups 2 weeks out, you can make regional matchups before the season if you need to as many markets overlap:
Pitt vs Cincy
WVU vs VT
FSU vs UCF
ND vs Iowa State
SMU vs Houston
Arizona State vs Stanford
Cal vs Utah
Then you can do Duke vs Kansas, UNC vs Arizona, Virginia vs Baylor, etc.
This will give a team like Wake the chance to beat like a TCU in Winston-Salem which could make all the difference in their NCAAT quest.
There's 20 conference games. Spread them out. Play 2 games to start the season or maybe after that first cupcake game. Try to make it a basketball/football weekend for visiting fans. The football team hosts Virginia on Nov 9 and Clemson on Nov 16. Schedule one of those teams to visit the Pete on Friday night. Playing 2 conference games early will prepare the teams better for the Thanksgiving tournaments.
- Start an ACC/Big 12 Challenge with games being played in February like the old Big 12/SEC Challenge. To take a page out of the old Bracket Busters, make the matchups about 2 weeks before the games. ESPN has half the Big 12 contract. So you figure with 7 or 8 Big 12 home games, all but 3 or 4 games in this challenge will be on ESPN. If they dont want to draw the matchups 2 weeks out, you can make regional matchups before the season if you need to as many markets overlap:
Pitt vs Cincy
WVU vs VT
FSU vs UCF
ND vs Iowa State
SMU vs Houston
Arizona State vs Stanford
Cal vs Utah
Then you can do Duke vs Kansas, UNC vs Arizona, Virginia vs Baylor, etc.
This will give a team like Wake the chance to beat like a TCU in Winston-Salem which could make all the difference in their NCAAT quest.