Exactly. If you look at the net Q4 range at home its 160+ teams that’s 200 teams. Q3 = 76-159, another 85 teams. 285 cupcakes to choose from. The ACC as a whole should be scheduling as much fluff as possible to max those efficiencies and raise their nets as a league for conference play. Then play as many high profile games as possible, ideally to win but also where a loss doesn’t hurt.
Think about it this way. Let’s say we throw Siena on the calendar. Sure it’ll be a hype game with GMAC at the dome and there’ll be a few more butts in the seats and he’ll bring his squad in ready to play and we’ll get a fun game to watch prob. There’s zero upside for us tho playing in a rock fight in Nov-Dec. A close win actually hurts us, even a 10-15 pt win the net will say ouch not a good win should’ve won by 25-30 or even more. Especially when you consider other P5 conferences are running up their metrics blowing up a 350 net team by 45 the same night.
Lastly Q1 and Q2 it’s 30 and 45 teams which are your peer teams trying to make the tourney. We Need to have all ACC teams be in this Q1-Q2 range. If we don’t schedule well as a league the B12 is waiting which is why we’ve seen their bubble teams that arent even close to 500 in league play be in the tourney. ACC teams finishing in Q3-Q4 is really what sank the ACC and we’ve been guilty of it.
