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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5650428, member: 5685"] I mention this every year but why in the heck does the ACC give teams back to back home conference games? It ends up giving teams unbalanced schedules. And if you have 5 ACC road games you cannot start off conference play at home. It just throws everything off leaving 5 road and 3 home still to go. We technically have 2 home games each month, but the two September games are W1 and W2, while the 2nd October game is the last day of the month. It will be hard to keep casual fans and even many students engaged with the team when we have 0.0 home games over 34 days and only one home game over 48 days. No problem for the die hards. At the same time it is rough having too many home games grouped together. It is hard to avoid in September given OOC games. But for many fans they end up not attending a game when they are grouped. We have 3 out of 4 weeks at home mid season which is a big commitment for a casual fan. Hate having the bye after a Thursday game. Playing on Thursday usually is like a mini bye. It gives you 9 days until your next game. With the bye it gives us 16 days between games. If we are off to a good start that could kill momentum. If we are off to a bad start it does give us time to fix things. But if we are off to a bad start against those three we won't likely recover. Thanksgiving weekend is a crowd killer. Do we really need a home game three straight that weekend? In this case it probably won't matter for the crowd though given the opponent. Labor Day is also a crowd killer. I prefer when we start on the road. BTW Parent's weekend is either early (Cal) or late (Louisville). And Homecoming? Either early (Louisville) or on Halloween (SMU)? Boston in November stinks. I miss when they were our conference opener each year. Travel wise great road slate. I really like going to Pitt but Thursday takes that away. Back to back times too. Would have been nice to give us Cal on a Friday so we had a extra day before Pitt. Moving SMU or Clemson to where our bye is would have made the schedule a lot more balanced. What are people sniffing when they think Cal is good? They had 2 nice upsets late in the year but that makes up for their garbage performance the rest of the year? And we have no clue how their HC or staff will turn out. I wouldn't bet on them. Very little experience across the board. [/QUOTE]

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