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We can touch base in the new year. Kicking off wine programs from a retail context in December isn't the best time since it's the busiest month of the year.
Jumping back into the strength of schedule discussion from the last few days. Here is the current SOS ranking for the 15 ACC schools. Note that Wake has not played an ACC game and everybody else has, however that's probably not the world's biggest boost one way or the other. These go from "most difficult" to "easiest" schedule so far this season:
1. UNC
2. Clemson
3. Florida State
4. Syracuse
5. Duke
6. Georgia Tech
7. Virginia
8. Notre dame
9. Virginia Tech
10. Boston College
11. NC State
12. Louisville
13. Miami
14. Wake Forest
15. Pittsburgh
Pitt is outside the top 300. Wake is sitting at 292. The top five teams are all in the top 100 and then teams 6 through 9 are in the top 200.
I understand that we lost to Utah and so we played Towson instead of Houston, but Wake absolutely has to stop playing so many teams in the 275 to 363 rated range. It's an easy way to avoid having a glaringly high number on the team sheet for OOC SOS and it's maddening that we keep doing the same thing over and over and over. This is going to be an issue that is pointed to for Wake's resume if we're in the bubble discussion come March. It's the same issue that arose a few years ago when we missed out on the tournament with Alondes.