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Message: [QUOTE="cuse522, post: 2115149, member: 1149"] I wanted to post this before we know our fate and emotions are hot. I think that ACC teams should seriously considering changing their non-conference scheduling if one of Syracuse/Wake don't get in. It's simply not a conference where a good team with a slow start can easily recover, or where a bubble team can win road games. In other words, if you have a year like we did, your BEST case scenario in this conference is probably 10-8. If you dropped Wake or 'Cuse in the Pac-12, they'd probably have won 12-13 conference games and been comfortably in. If the committee doesn't properly weight the difficulty of the ACC against the B1G or Pac-12, for example, then teams of similar/slightly lesser talent in those conferences will always get in on the bubble over ACC teams. In addition, it's so tough to win on the road in this conference, and if being 2-8 on the road is going to be what they throw in your face to keep you out, suddenly perhaps a team that normally doesn't do home and aways needs to do them. It becomes imperative to win a couple road games in non-conference over say 50-100 teams. We're 84th in RPI... Obviously we're never going to play @Monmouth, but flipping that game to a road game and dropping the North Florida win for an @Providence win takes us to 69th. We should be creative with it and try to get into recruiting centers , but it seems to me that giving ourselves 2-3 opportunities to win road games against teams that aren't powerhouses but are potentially top-100 teams might be necessary in a conference where the bubble teams are winning two or three road games. Maybe we could try to do some 2-for-1s with schools like VCU, Richmond, St. Joe's, Temple, UNLV, etc. Or try to book a road game near an early-season tournament (UNC played @Hawaii before the Maui Invitational). Just some ideas for the future while we anxiously await and before we're either in celebratory mode or "sky is falling," mode. [/QUOTE]

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