Additional Cost Conference
I'm no fan of ACC expansion, and the jump in gas prices just adds fuel to my ire.
How much sense does it make for North Carolina to take a road trip to Miami for a conference football game but not to Wake Forest?
How much more will it cost to transport a football team from Chapel Hill to Miami than it would from Chapel Hill to Winston-Salem? How much additional fuel will it consume?
Then there's the expense of lodging and feeding a football team in Miami -- unnecessary when taking a short trip down the road.
College athletic teams travel too much. They can find plenty of competition closer to home.
A conference that stretches from Miami to Boston is too spread out. A schedule that matches teams hundreds of miles apart but not traditional rivals in the same neighborhood is stupid.
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If the ACC paid attention to what another 12-team conference did with its scheduling instead of pandering to the new members, all the Big Four members would still play each other every year in football, and home-and-home in basketball.
Like the ACC, the SEC has two divisions of six teams each. Each school plays the five other schools in its division every year in football, plus one other "permanent" opponent from the other division (this keeps alive Tennessee/Alabama and Auburn/Georgia every year in the SEC; it means Virginia/Maryland, Virginia Tech/Miami and Clemson/NC State could continue on an annual basis even if those teams were in separate divisions). The other two football opponents rotate every two years.
In hoops, you play the five in your division home-and-home, and you get the teams in the other division once each year.
An "inner" division (the four North Carolina schools and two Virginia schools) and "outer" division (everyone else) makes more sense than the random assortment we've got now. Of course, like a college football playoff, it makes too much sense to adopt.
Posted on September 6, 2005 9:23 AM
Who calls you Screwball? The ACC could use some Screwball thinking like that.
Thanks for posting.
Posted on September 6, 2005 5:42 PM