Duke is 20 miles from State, not 35. It’s crazy for us not to play them EVERY YEAR in football. It’s not only bad from a historical rivals standpoint, but it’s also a very bad financial decision. I don’t care if Syracuse has to travel farther; they knew damn well they would when they agreed to join the ACC. Don’t punish us because of Syracuse’s geography.
Another team we should be playing more often is Virginia Tech. Thanks to the divisions, we will never see the Hokies enough to establish a rivalry. I can’t remember the last time we played them. Why do we have to play Boston College EVERY year and never get to play VPI? Besides Clemson, Tech is more like us than any other ACC school in terms of the fan base.
State fans may have lost their perspective as to just how bad we’ve gotten in football in the past decade. We have little if any bargaining power to attract good home opponents, but I honestly believe we’d be better off going on the road against really strong opponents than we are staying home and playing the ODUs, Richmonds, Georgia Southerns, Central Mixhigans, Louisiana-Lafayettes and Troys of the world. As a paying State fan, I’d rather watch us on tv against nationally ranked teams than shell out a hundred bucks for 2 seats to see us play Georgia Southern here.
Especially at noon at the end of August. We will not build a program with this kind of game and exposure (ACC Network), and we might just get our you-know-what’s handed to us on August 30. We don’t need any more of these games, Ms. Yow!
