Agreed about the ACC schedules, with the change from the ACC tourney the last few years it has thrown things in a bit of chaos and caused some matchups to be postponed ie Cuse vs Army and Cornell this year, Hop/Virg, UNC and Hop having to play midweek and a few others.wgdsr wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:31 am'cuse is the only acc team that filled their bye week this year. they must've caught p'ton on their bye.jrn19 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:10 pm Most ACC teams have had a bye somewhere in April on the schedule in the 5 team configuration. Notre Dame is usually the one who does the full week off but I think UNC has done it recently as well. Cuse always did a weekend game Notre dame last weekend of March, midweek vs Hobart to start April, then didn't play that weekend, but would play Cornell on the Tuesday. Virginia perhaps infamously played their last regular season game April 24th and had that 3 week gap before playing a tournament game in 2021. Forget about Duke but they also play a gajillion games
duke had 2 1/2 weeks last year, and still managed 17 games, they've cut it to 15 this year.
the acc schedule model has really been a cluster. interrupted rivalries with uva/jhu, 'cuse/cornell and army and i'm sure others. they really didn't think this thru that the post-covid year was a one off.
I do agree with the posters who questioned the amount of games ND plays, 12 is just to few. 13 really should be the bare minimum. I personally like the 15 game model as Dukes 17 game schedule they have played consistently seems a bit overkill but I think it makes more sense then 12.
One thing I will say for ND, a mid week game for them is a lot harder then a lot of the East coast teams. SU can play 4 or 5 teams within pretty much an hour midweek in March or April with little issue. SU and Hobart have done it for decades. ND as you pointed out has no real option for that and needs a long bus ride or more likely a flight mid week or get another school to agree to do that mid week which is unlikely to happen especially when you get into April when finals are on the horizon and schedules become hectic.