(08-31-2021 04:04 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (08-31-2021 09:24 AM)XLance Wrote: (08-31-2021 07:56 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (08-31-2021 05:45 AM)TexanMark Wrote: (08-29-2021 06:54 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote: Not at all.
According to what's been stated, Notre Dame games will count as ACC. There are 12 Pac-12 teams, two of which play Notre Dame every year - that leaves 10.
If there are 10 Pac-vs-ACC games, that leaves 4 ACC teams w/o a Pac-12 partner.
Guess how many ACC/SEC rivalry games there are?
I'm glad you figured that out. However, will those schools in the ACC be content to never play a PAC-12 game?
Someone can occasionally play 2 B1G teams so that Clemson, FSU, GT or Louisville can play a Pac-12 team. It's no biggie.
Similar issue: USC is technically off the table for all ACC teams because of playing Notre Dame; that won't fly either!
FYI: USC and Boston College played a home and home in 2013-14.
Yes, I wrote about the exciting upset win for the Eagles. My point is, lots of ACC teams would like to play USC, but under the existing rules of Alliance scheduling, the Trojans meet their ACC quota every year just by playing Notre Dame.
Mark, we all know this alliance is stupid.
Each of the three conferences have their own agenda re: the Alliance, and if Phillips were smart he would realize that the ACC is the traditional "odd man out".
Perhaps he is just trying to leverage ESPN into paying the ACC in a more equitable way or that the Presidents are looking for an avenue not to be absorbed into the SEC, but I can't see how increasing travel costs and playing teams that no one cares about is going to make the ACC more money.
I still contend this would be our best plan forward;
I think you could take the soon to be 16 team SEC and the 14 team ACC and come up with two conferences/divisions of 15 each that would be more compact and more succinct and much better prepared for the future.
I would move the two ACC Florida schools into the SEC while moving Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina into the ACC to create two 15 team conferences that would be divided into 3 pods of 5 teams
Miami, Florida State, Florida, Georgia, Auburn
Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU
Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri
Boston College, Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, VT
Kentucky, Tennessee, Duke, Carolina, UVa
Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Clemson, NC State, Wake Forest
If we continue to pursue the alliance. Some ACC schools will end up being absorbed by the B1G, some will be picked up by the SEC and several (Wake Forest, Syracuse, Boston College and probably Pitt will be demoted).