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Orange Blooded [3201]
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football scheduling question
Nov 16, 2018, 10:06 AM
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Does anyone find it odd that almost every other school schedules a cupcake game this week, the week before the last week of the regular season? However, our team schedules their cupcake for the last week of the regular season.
Is this Swofford's fault?
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CU Medallion [64308]
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No...
Nov 16, 2018, 10:16 AM
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The ACC has no control over the OOC schedule or the dates the games are played.
Next year, u5c has an open date the week before the Clemson game while Clemson will be playing a conference opponent.
I have always been in favor of playing an OOC opponent the week prior to the u5c game. For a short period of time, we did. Generally speaking, however, we don't.
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Biggie, you serious?***
Nov 16, 2018, 11:10 AM
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Heisman Winner [138686]
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He’s right.
Nov 16, 2018, 12:16 PM
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That’s why it takes the ACC home office so long to release the conference schedule most years. They have to wait for all the teams to figure out their OOC schedules first, then work around them.
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Drad just keeps dropping the ball.
Nov 16, 2018, 12:50 PM
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You would think he could also get us a few more bye weeks in there too.
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Re: football scheduling question
Nov 16, 2018, 10:29 AM
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No, blame it on the State Legislature. See, Swofford has been trying for years to make the ACC stronger by getting one SEC team to transfer, making it more inviting for Notre Dame. But Notre Dame won't join unless that team is Alabama, and since Bama would be a fool to leave the SEC, it was hoped that the Game Chickens might reconsider. But since they told Swofford the only way they would come in would be if they were to be placed in the Coastal so they wouldn't have to face us every year. he said O.K.but the State Legislature vetoed the move saying they would have to raise taxes to make up for all the lost revenue this game brings into the state each year. So, Clemson is the only school in the Nation who can schedule a cupcake game for their season-ending game. Now if we could only find a way to make it a home game every year.
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Speaking of the Cawks...
Nov 16, 2018, 8:47 PM
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a friend of mine has a son who plays for u5c.
He was telling me yesterday that as 30 point favorites against UTC, the team spent very little time this past week preparing for the UTC game choosing instead to start installing the game plan for Clemson.
Bless their hearts !!!
Two weeks to prepare and they're still going to lose by 40+
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Re: Speaking of the Cawks...
Nov 16, 2018, 10:47 AM
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I dont see enough practice availble in the whole season to save them from their fate against us
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110%er [7657]
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LOL
Nov 16, 2018, 10:31 AM
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I see what you did there. Nice!
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Orange Blooded [4475]
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Re: football scheduling question
Nov 16, 2018, 11:50 AM
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The SEC does that to help the teams that have ACC rivals for final games or their huge matchups (Iron Bowl).
For a few years, the ACC did it too, more or less, but they stopped. Probably because they wanted to get some more TV $$$ with games that count while 6 SEC schools are taking the weekend off.
Just last year, Clemson played The Citadel the week before SCAR game.
Check the schedules for the other ACC schools with SEC rivals.
Clemson: 2013 Citadel, 2014 Georgia State, 2015 Wake Forest, 2016 Wake Forest, 2017 Citadel, 2018 Duke Ga Tech: 2013 Alabama A&M, 2014 Clemson, 2015 Miami, 2016 UVA, 2017 Duke, 2018 UVA FSU: 2013 Idaho, 2014 BC, 2015 Chattanooga, 2016 Syracuse, 2017 Delaware St. 2018 BC Louisville: 2013 (not in ACC), 2014 Notre Dame, 2015 Pitt, 2016 Houston, 2017 Syracuse, 2018 NC State
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We knew we'd have a conference title coming up
Nov 16, 2018, 12:56 PM
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so we needed a bye before that.
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