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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5331771, member: 5685"] For the die hard fans it doesn't really matter who or when we play. I will be at every home game. I like Friday games. But for the casuals and students, having a balanced schedule makes a difference. Not everyone can make a Friday game. So when you have an 8 week stretch with only one Saturday game, casual fans and students will check out. They are not engaged. When you have too many home games grouped together, it is overexposure for these types of fans. It is harder to build a fanbase with these ACC schedules. For the actual team, having three home games that we really should win early will help get us off to a fast start. It is a competitive advantage. But then only having 2 over the next 8 weeks will be rough for the team. Last year we were great on the road. I don't expect that to carry over again. There is no logical reason for the ACC to schedule the way it does. The Notre Dame games are scheduled by the ACC. When a team has ND at H, that gives them 5 H and 4 A. In that case the team should start and end at H while alternating in between. They should never have 2 H or 2 A in a row. That keeps the schedule balanced. Instead BC starts and ends A. Which means in between they have 5 H and 2 A, completely imbalanced. And vice versa for the teams that have Notre Dame A. They should start and end A. SU ending with BC at H brings imbalance. Really we should end ND A, BC H, Miami A. Edit To expand on the BC example, attending games is a time commitment. They have an 6 week stretch with 5 home games. Even for a die hard fan it is hard to commit 5 out of the next 6 Saturdays to attending a game. BC plays at Stanford on 9-13. The next 10 weeks they play 6 H, 2 A, and have 2 Byes before ending at Cuse. And one of the A is at Pitt. So they have only one non Northeastern game over the last 11 weeks. That is a huge competitive advantage if they can survive weeks 2 and 3. [/QUOTE]

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