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Questions about our baseball schedule
May 29, 2012, 12:04 PM
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Anyone know why we usually play two games each year against Elon? What's the connection there? I understand that they are a regional team, but at two games a year, we're playing them more than almost every in state school other than South Carolina.
Furthermore, almost every in state school pops up on the schedule at least every 2-3 years except the Citadel, which we haven't played since 2004. Any reason why we don't schedule them?
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Clemson routinely plays....
May 29, 2012, 12:08 PM
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Furman, Wofford, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, and Winthrop in addition to South Carolina which accounts for a healthy portion of the in-state schools.
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Letterman [281]
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Re: Clemson routinely plays....
May 29, 2012, 12:16 PM
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You left out PC and Chas. Southern. Note that we RARELY go to any of those locations. WE play Furman at Fluor, but that's almost like a home game too.
Why travel mid week when other teams are willing to come to us?
My GUESS is that the Citadel would prefer to stay closer to home for mid-week games, or would insist on a home and home arrangement, which we have no reason to agree to.
> Furman, Wofford, Coastal Carolina, College of
> Charleston, and Winthrop in addition to South
> Carolina which accounts for a healthy portion of the
> in-state schools.
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Re: Clemson routinely plays....
May 29, 2012, 12:44 PM
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In the last 4 years we've played each in state school other than the Citadel - Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Furman, Presbyterian, South Carolina, USC Upstate, Winthrop, and Wofford, but haven't played The Citadel in 8 years, I just found that odd.
Also, in the last four years we've played Elon 8 times, which is more than any instate school other than South Carolina - 13 times in regular season, and Furman - also 8 times.
Obviously we have the home & home with Georgia which is a great rivalry, and we've got the home & home with Western Carolina because of Jack's connection, but the 2 games a year with Elon seemed odd, unless there was some connection there that I was not aware of.
Maybe its just as simple as they are willing to come and the Citadel is not.
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Letterman [281]
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Re: Questions about our baseball schedule
May 29, 2012, 12:11 PM
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Because they're willing to come to Clemson midweek twice a year.
> Anyone know why we usually play two games each year
> against Elon? What's the connection there? I
> understand that they are a regional team, but at two
> games a year, we're playing them more than almost
> every in state school other than South Carolina.
>
> Furthermore, almost every in state school pops up on
> the schedule at least every 2-3 years except the
> Citadel, which we haven't played since 2004. Any
> reason why we don't schedule them?
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Don't we usually play Elon on the way to some other game
May 29, 2012, 12:13 PM
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And Elon is closer than The Citadel. I think the NCAA has travel limits on week night games. Conway and Charleston are over 4 hours from Clemson.
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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We always play Elon at home
May 29, 2012, 12:16 PM
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Don't know why, maybe it is b/c they're willing to play 2 days in a row. Maybe the Citadel wants a return game to play us that we won't do. Really though, I have no clue.
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Orange Blooded [3573]
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I thought we played the 2nd game at Elon this year
May 29, 2012, 12:19 PM
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before we played UVA in Charlottesville?
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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Actually this year we did a Tues Clemson, Wed Greenville***
May 29, 2012, 12:24 PM
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Orange Blooded [3573]
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Thats it. I knew it wasn't in Clemson
May 29, 2012, 12:31 PM
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maybe we play Elon on their spring break.
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