Official Off-Topic VT Thread

[Taz_Hokie]

Where is Taz?

won't play FSU at home again until 2023:
ACC Announces Schedule of Football Rotating Crossover Opponents - The Official Athletic Site of the Atlantic Coast Conference

Fucking bullshit. Can we kick some teams out of the ACC so we'd actually play every team every couple of years?

But you get to tell them we play BC every year

 

[VTscores]

On the bright side, we get to play Clemson in Lane in 2017.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Oh my God, I'm an uncle!

 

[HoHumHokie]

But you get to tell them we play BC every year

I can't believe the ACC would screw VT like this after all that VT has done for ACC football over the past decade. Not to mention they didn't even give VT a home date with Notre Dame before Beamer retires.

The only thing that can fix this is if BC starts becoming a contender in the Atlantic Division, but I don't see this happening.

 

[Taz_Hokie]

Oh my God, I'm an uncle!

Congratulations!!

 

[ACC_HOKIES]

The ACC is shooting themselves in the footballs with this schedule philosophy. Virginia Tech should be playing either Clemson or Florida State just about every year. This isn't just for our benefit. The whole ACC benefits from big time matchups. Instead, the ACC seems to be trying to get the most likely top teams to avoid competition in order to inflate records for ACC-CG and the playoff. Short sighted IMO.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

The problem is the good teams are the exception and not the norm in the ACC.

Miami, Pittsburgh, Virginia, North Carolina, NC State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, etc etc etc...

You all are in recruiting hit beds with great athletic programs.

GET GOOD!!! STAY GOOD!!!

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Congratulations!!

Taz, you have met me. Do I seem like someone ready to be an uncle?

 

[HoHumHokie]

The problem is the good teams are the exception and not the norm in the ACC.

Miami, Pittsburgh, Virginia, North Carolina, NC State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, etc etc etc...

You all are in recruiting hit beds with great athletic programs.

GET GOOD!!! STAY GOOD!!!

UNC or NC State benefit more when the other is down.....too much competition in NC between the 5 D1 schools and SEC coming in and taking the top talent. Not sure there is much talent in Kentucky.....Louisville gets most of their star players from Florida. GT will continue to be middle of the road at best with PJ at the helm. Miami is the one school that has no excuses and they look to be getting a little bit of "swagger" back.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Pittsburgh has no excuse either. They have a good coach, PSU has a serious image problem and is on probation for three more years and they are located in a hit bed of talent. They are historically significant as well.

Pitt and Miami need to step up for sure.

 

[HoHumHokie]

David Glenn Show‏@DavidGlennShow
Swofford says ACC will look into the playing the ACC Championship game on campus like the Pac 12.

 

[NickVT10]

David Glenn Show‏@DavidGlennShow
Swofford says ACC will look into the playing the ACC Championship game on campus like the Pac 12.

Pleasssseeeee

 

[amszete]

Yes.

 

[ACC_HOKIES]

Boo. Charlotte is great and where the game belongs short of a domed stadium in the east. Easy travel, cheap hotels, and decent location in the city. If you get any combination of FSU, Clemson, NC State, UNC, UVa, VT, you're going to have 70,000+ fans. Any other combination not including BC or Cuse would IMO sell 50 000+ tickets on average which is ~2000 more seats than the average capacity of the 14 member conference. There have been more ACC fans of non-participating teams in Charlotte every year too.

 

[ACC_HOKIES]

The problem is the good teams are the exception and not the norm in the ACC.

Miami, Pittsburgh, Virginia, North Carolina, NC State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, etc etc etc...

You all are in recruiting hit beds with great athletic programs.

GET GOOD!!! STAY GOOD!!!

Very true. I think that goes for basketball teams too, although Cuse and Louisville may bring instant depth at the top.

 

[NickVT10]

Boo. Charlotte is great and where the game belongs short of a domed stadium in the east. Easy travel, cheap hotels, and decent location in the city. If you get any combination of FSU, Clemson, NC State, UNC, UVa, VT, you're going to have 70,000+ fans. Any other combination not including BC or Cuse would IMO sell 50 000+ tickets on average which is ~2000 more seats than the average capacity of the 14 member conference. There have been more ACC fans of non-participating teams in Charlotte every year too.

I have a feeling the Atlantic division will be FSU, Clemson, or Louisville for a while and if it is Cuse or Louisvilee then they will fill the carrier dome or papa johns stadium (whatever it is called). A sell out at cuse would be better than 30,000 empty seats in charlotte IMO. If the coastal rep is the home team, it means they are likely a top 10 program and will fill their seats

 

[hokiegrad]

I think I'm with ACC_HOKIES on this one. Championship games should be played on a neutral field as close to the geographic middle of the conference as possible. That would be Charlotte or DC in this case.

 

[HoHumHokie]

Boo. Charlotte is great and where the game belongs short of a domed stadium in the east. Easy travel, cheap hotels, and decent location in the city. If you get any combination of FSU, Clemson, NC State, UNC, UVa, VT, you're going to have 70,000+ fans. Any other combination not including BC or Cuse would IMO sell 50 000+ tickets on average which is ~2000 more seats than the average capacity of the 14 member conference. There have been more ACC fans of non-participating teams in Charlotte every year too.

Woah there....back up a minute. I am not sure any combination with UVA would draw 70,000 much less 50,000 if FSU/Clemson/NCSU aren't in it.

 

[ACC_HOKIES]

Woah there....back up a minute. I am not sure any combination with UVA would draw 70,000 much less 50,000 if FSU/Clemson/NCSU aren't in it.

Don't let the empty bandwagon right now fool you. I'm thinking long term, where eventually everyone will have highs and lows.

Virginia has shown they can get fans to Charlotte. Virginia drew ~72,000 with WVU in Tire Bowl 2002. They drew ~ 52,000 with, now ACC member, Pitt in Tire Bowl 2003. I'd say that those two opponents correspond to the two attendance groups I've described for the venue at Charlotte, and the records and rankings for ACC-CG teams have generally been better than those two bowls.

We can agree their current ineptitude show their fans to be weenies. However, I'm quite confident their fans would show up for the ACC-CG if they were to somehow ever be good enough.

 

[hokiegrad]

If... if is good...