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Ditching Divisions in the ACC
Jul 12, 2015, 5:28 PM
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With NCAA legislation pending to remove CCG constraints, an ACC co-sponsored effort, I'm curious as to how going divisionless in conference has little traction, according to Swofford, among AD's.
Were we to adopt a 3-team annual rival set-up (driven by UNC's need to schedule NC State, Duke, and UVA annually) with the other 5 conference games rotating among the rest of the league, every program could play every other program in the league twice every four years, instead of twice every twelve years, plus 3 annual mainstays. Following the regular season, the top two teams meet in the ACCCG.
3-team Annual Rotation Suggestion:
Clemson - Ga. Tech / NC State / BC
FSU - Miami / Syracuse / UVA
Miami - FSU / BC / Pitt
Ga. Tech - Clemson / Duke / Louisville
UNC - Duke / NC State / UVA
UVA - Va. Tech / UNC / FSU
Va. Tech - UVA / Pitt / Louisville
Louisville - Va. Tech / Ga. Tech / Wake
Syracuse - BC / Pitt / FSU
NC State - UNC / Wake / Clemson
Duke - UNC / Wake / Ga. Tech
Wake - Duke / NC State / Louisville
Pitt - Va. Tech / Miami / Syracuse
BC - Syracuse / Miami / Clemson
I would certainly be all for swapping BC out for FSU on our annual schedule, and shifting around the UVA, BC, Syracuse schedules to accommodate, but we'd still play them twice every four years regardless plus any ACCCG opportunities that came about. Rotating between FSU and Miami, plus Va. Tech & Louisville would be okay in my book.
A 9 conference game schedule just doesn't compute in this league, and this kind of arrangement, where the northern schools get more southern travel more often based on a more equitable distribution of opponents, would quell further moves to create the extra league game. Atlantic and Coastal have little traction outside of our immediate fan bases and the media. Ditching this imaginary demarcation would only help the more casual college fan keep up a little better, plus every recruiting class is guaranteed to play every team at home and every team away at least once during their 4-year stay.
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Re: Ditching Divisions in the ACC
Jul 12, 2015, 6:11 PM
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This makes way too much sense to be adopted by Swofford.
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This is probably the best proposal I've seen
Jul 12, 2015, 7:19 PM
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anyone put forth, either in the media or by fans on TigerNet. Good work!
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Re: Ditching Divisions in the ACC
Jul 12, 2015, 7:47 PM
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Makes my brain hurt!
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Re: Ditching Divisions in the ACC
Jul 12, 2015, 8:45 PM
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I don't think Clemson will agree to any schedule that eliminates the yearly game with FSU. That games drives
season tickets sales in the years we play SC in Columbia.
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I don't think Clemson has a problem sellingg tickets
Jul 13, 2015, 8:10 AM
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The acc will be against it because of tv deals.
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Re: I don't think Clemson has a problem sellingg tickets
Jul 13, 2015, 9:19 AM
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Maintaining an annual CU and FSU match-up would be easy enough with these adjustments...
Clemson - Ga. Tech / NC State / FSU
FSU - Miami / Clemson / Syracuse
UVA - Va. Tech / UNC / BC
BC - Syracuse / Miami / UVA
Considering that every four years every program would have played each other an equal number of times, plus not having divisional names to adjust, the three annual games could be tweaked and altered throughout the league at that point.
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Orange Blooded [3257]
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After 4 years change the 3 annual rivals.***
Jul 12, 2015, 8:59 PM
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Legend [16252]
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Sure. Another element that makes this set-up work.
Jul 12, 2015, 9:38 PM
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Every four years presents an opportunity for a reset on the annuals. The only program that would truly need to stay put with its 3 match-ups would be UNC.
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Or at least change divisions for
Jul 13, 2015, 9:26 AM
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one pair of current permanent rivals each year and that would do much the same. It would also set up possible Clemson/FSU championship games twice every cycle.
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