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[QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 353616, member: 41"]
Coaches react:
 
[url]http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/09/12/coaches-react-notre-dames-move-acc-big-east-statement[/url]
 
[I]Syracuse's John Desko[/I]
[I][B]IL: What are your thoughts on Notre Dame joining the ACC?[/B][/I]
[I]"It's all good things. There will be no days off in the ACC. ... It's not like you're being put into a conference where the opponents are weak so you're certainly not hurting the RPI and your strength of schedule."[/I]
[I][B]IL: And what does this mean for scheduling?[/B][/I]
[I]"I think it does warrant a lot of discussion of when the ACC tournament would be if there is one. If the ACC tourney is the third to last weekend of the season, and you have to play the ACC teams before the tourney for seedings and so on, that eliminates the last weekend of the season for ACC opponents. So what that does now is you need to play all the ACC teams pretty much between the beginning of March and the second weekend in April. In that time period, you've got six weekends and five ACC opponents, so five out of those six weekends will have to be ACC teams. It gets complicated when you look at our opponents: the Johns Hopkins, the Princetons, the Georgetowns. It's probably going to be a total revamp of the schedule. If they could even consider doing the tourney on the last weekend of the regular season or the weekend before, that could really help teams with scheduling. It would open up other weekends."[/I]
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