New ACC scheduling model

andrew said:
ööööting the bed would have been guaranteeing that we have to play Clemson, FSU, and U[sic]GA every year, before even considering our non-cupcake OOC game (which we generally schedule against decent teams.)

I tend to err on the side of scheduling interesting teams over guaranteed wins, but having both Clemson and FSU in our pod is a step too far even for me.
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FSU and Clemson produce 1 great team at a time. Those home games against FSU were great. We never have, and never will, sellout a game against Wake. Odds are it will never happen against UL.
 
IslandJacket said:
This is atrocious. 2 of our permanent games are with opponents that neither side cares about. Louisville is an abomination. All the historic ACC games and rivalries, even in the last 10-15 years, are now out the window. How we didn't get VPI or Duke is beyond me, much less UVA or Miami. Very odd that, being from the Coastal, we get paired with no Coastal teams.
Super amped to see us play more of BC, Syracuse, and L'ville. Won't be waiting long considering this is the '23 schedule. :puke:

Only positive is we didn't get stuck with Pitt.
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How are all the historic games and rivalries out the window when we will still be playing those teams 2 out 4 years?
 
I hate UofL for various reasons but other than that it is fine.

We haven’t played Wake a lot and I’ve already been to Duke a few times. But of course Wake is at the top of their game while Duke is starting over.

I wish we could swap FSU for Clemson half of the time.
 
GT flunkout said:
You people seriously think a schedule that gives us a home conference slate of BC, UNC, Syracuse and Louisville is great? This is bad. I'd say this gives us an opportunity to up our non-conference scheduling but too many of our fans are whining about playing Ole Miss.

We absolutely got shafted drawing Louisville and Wake Forest, two programs we have no real history or tradition and no real interest in those games will ever be created. Gross. Indefensible really.

I don't even recognize college football fans anymore it seems
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I question Wake for sure, but given a choice between them and continuing that meaningless and usually frustrating series with Duke, I will pick Wake any day. Louisville COULD be a draw for fans; we shall see. To be honest though, I think VT and FSU are the only two schools who would generate much interest.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
I question Wake for sure, but given a choice between them and continuing that meaningless and usually frustrating series with Duke, I will pick Wake any day. Louisville COULD be a draw for fans; we shall see. To be honest though, I think VT and FSU are the only two schools who would generate much interest.
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Miami generates interest when they aren’t sucking. And if we are going to have a trashy fan base on our schedule, I’d rather have Miami over Louisville. At least Miami has done something. Louisville is just trashy.
 
I agree that I hate duke and love whooping them, but whoever thinks we are going to give up Clemson is full of öööö. We’ve played them longer than any of us have been alive so shut up about it. That’s the only thing this öööö is good for. Tradition.
 
smokey_wasp said:
How are all the historic games and rivalries out the window when we will still be playing those teams 2 out 4 years?
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I suppose "relegated to the past" would be a more appropriate phrase than "out the window". Is it really considered a rivalry on an every-other-year-basis? I guess it's better than never playing (see Texas-aTm). Just seems to me it drops a lot of interest. The 10 year run (2008-2017) of extremely close games between us and VPISU wouldn't have been nearly as exciting or important if half those games weren't played. Same could be said about UVA or Miami.
 
I think we took UL because they travel and studies likely showed they will travel down to Atlanta. The negative is that they get to recruit the three most fertile grounds in our conference. Tech gets nothing out of this choice but maybe the UL fans visiting. It's all about the money. They are a completely different school than Tech though. They have money, they can recruit anybody, players are easy to get in and through the program, their hometown paper loves them, their politicians support them.....we have none of these things. I would have liked to play UNC or UVA and Duke, but avoiding Duke has some advantages.

Clemson is ok, Wake gets access into southeast recruiting which it needs. The joke is how the NC schools all got each other. That's going to hurt recruiting for them but you can bet it now, that UNC and UL will be Top Five ACC teams for the coming years.
 
savbandjacket said:
I’d rather have Miami than Louisville and anyone other than Wake.
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It would have been nice to get at least one of the two Florida teams as one of our permanent opponents, but at least we’ll see each of them twice every four years.
 
Once again FSU doesn't get to permanently play the closest school to them geographically in the city with the most FSU alums, GT in Atlanta
 
coit said:
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Seems fishy. They gonna save a bunch of money on travel expenses.
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They could just drive over and park for two of them.
 
It's hard to believe that FSU didn't want to play us. They have fans in Atlanta, we travel there, it's been a good game, a regional opponent, we generally don't beat them....my guess is the FSU AD already knew who they were getting when he said that.
 
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