deacdixieboy
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Clemson and UNC know their best fit and best chance to succeed is in the ACC. They just want to get special treatment.
Clemson and UNC know their best fit and best chance to succeed is in the ACC. They just want to get special treatment.
I don’t think logistics supports adding 2 more west coast schools to an atlantic coast conference. Logistics didn’t support adding the first 2.I don't understand why the ACC would take any of those schools over Washington St and Oregon St. It might make some sense if we weren't already taking Stanford and Cal. But it seems like for logistics alone it would make more sense to take 2 more west coast schools.
Logistics actually makes more sense for 4 west coast schools than for 2. With 4 they can be their own "pod" and play each other every year (1x in football and 2x in basketball) and then only need to rotate the other schools on and off their schedules.I don’t think logistics supports adding 2 more west coast schools to an atlantic coast conference. Logistics didn’t support adding the first 2.
This. For basketball, you could schedule around a model like this while keeping the current 20-game schedule:Logistics actually makes more sense for 4 west coast schools than for 2. With 4 they can be their own "pod" and play each other every year (1x in football and 2x in basketball) and then only need to rotate the other schools on and off their schedules.
This is a great idea, but unfortunately has no chance of being implemented. Any schedule in which some teams get zero games against UNC or Duke is a non-starter.This. For basketball, you could schedule around a model like this while keeping the current 20-game schedule:
West
Stanford
Cal
WSU
OSU
SMU
Big East
Notre Dame
Louisville
BC
Syracuse
Pitt
Old North
UVA
UNC
dook
NCSU
Wake
South
GT
Clemson
FSU
Miami
VPI
Each team plays home-and-home against every other team in their pod (8 games). Each pod will play each team in 2 of the 3 other pods every year on a rotating basis (10 games). Then, each school is assigned 1 or 2 permanent cross-pod rivals that they will play in an additional game each year, so that in years when they are playing that pod, they get a home-and-home against their rival, and in years when they're not playing that pod, they get one game against them (1-2 games).
Wake's schedule could look something like this:
Intra-pod play
UVA
@UVA
UNC
@UNC
dook
@dook
NCSU
@NCSU
Rotating pod 1
Stanford
Cal
WSU
OSU
SMU
Rotating pod 2
@GT
@Clemson
@FSU
@Miami
@VPI
Rivals
GT
@BC
No games
ND
Louisville
Syracuse
Pitt
Then the next year, we'd pick up the Big East pod and lose the Western pod, then we'd add the West and lose the South, and so on and so forth.
If they really found a way, it would be much bigger deal than rumors and such.
If they really "found a way" around the crippling financial penalties - They would have already left
But of course the distance between Pullman and the Bay Area is immaterial, as they're already accustomed to making that trip. It's the ability to make that shorter trip on occasion instead of having to travel to the East Coast or TX for every single away game.Corvallis and Pullman aren't particularly close to the Bay Area. Washington State is nearly as far from Stanford and Cal as SMU is from Louisville and Georgia Tech.
...and honestly I'll take Hawaii eleventy billion percent over East Fucking CarolinaWhen our conference already has South FL, New England, the Upper Midwest (? whatever the fuck South Bend is considered), Texas, Upstate NY and the Bay Area, it's hard to make any further arguments about distance unless like Hawaii is being considered