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Message: [QUOTE="irishredhomebrew, post: 776682, member: 1244"] It is not just the ND year for Clemson that is a problem. The 9-game schedule would instantly kill our chances to do home-and-home series with Marquee teams outside of the SCAR game. If the SCAR game was aligned to be a home game for Clemson during the year of 4 home conference games, that would be 5 home games out of 10 games (9 conference, plus SCAR) each year. That leaves us 2 games. One game goes to one of the smaller colleges in SC (Furman, Coastal Carolina, Citadel, Wofford, SC State) at the strong "urging" of our state legislature, getting us to 6 home games spoken for each year. That leaves us with exactly 1 game left to schedule. NO power team will agree to a 1 and done without a return trip. This ruins the ability to guarantee 7 home games each year. We would have to schedule some directional college for the 7th game. Clemson would not be able to play teams like UGA, Auburn, Alabama, Texas A&M (our OOC games over the last 8 or so years). When the 9 game schedule was originally voted in, Clemson cancelled scheduled home and homes with Ole Miss and OK State. UGA was kept with the understanding that we would take about a 4 to 5 mil hit when we play in Athens the following year because of only having 6 home games. Following is an excerpt of an interview with our AD when the 9 game conference was initially approved: [B]TigerNet: With the ACC moving to a nine-game conference schedule, how is that going to affect Clemson’s non-conference schedule, specifically future games with Georgia, Ole Miss and Oklahoma St?[/B] TDP: It is going to have an impact. I have to sit down with Dabo [Swinney] and his staff regarding our scheduling with lots of people going forward. In the old configuration what we wanted to do is play two strong teams – South Carolina being one of them – and you know we pick Auburn back up this fall and have a two game series scheduled with Georgia and then Ole Miss and Oklahoma St. Again, it comes back to scheduling philosophy and whether or not you try to retain some of those schools, which I think won't be practical at all. Because we need seven home games. Obviously with all the reports on compensation and costs going up, we can't afford to give up a seventh home game and there will probably be an adjustment there. And we are probably looking at a couple of mid-majors that will be on the home schedule. Notice where he said there would be a couple of mid-majors the will be on the home schedule. That is because those are the teams you can pay to come to your place without a return trip. Put yourself in Clemson's place. Would you want your conference taking away your flexibility to ever do a home and home with a power school OOC? There is no fix for Clemson in this situation. [/QUOTE]

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