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If you divide the ACC into three basketball divisions, I think everyone would agree that the ACC North should be BC, Syracuse, Pitt, ND and Louisville. They would also agree that division rivals should play each other twice each season.

The problem would be dividing up the rest of the ACC. If the league would allow two out-of-division primary playing partners, then you could split the Big Four yet maintain those rivalries twice a season; otherwise, I don’t think it makes financial or geographical sense, let alone common sense, to continue disallowing local rivals to play each other twice every season. That means NOT SPLITTING the Big Four into an odd-man-out setup.

If State, for instance, could play each of its four division basketball rivals twice, plus have two primary playing partners, that would comprise twelve games, with six more among the other 8 teams. To avoid not playing someone at all during the season, the two primary playing partners could be rotated out once every few years to make room for the other two teams, assuring the Wolfpack it would play everyone at least once each season.

A better solution to me would be to go to a 20-game league schedule, allowing those two extra league games without a team having to be rotated out. The fans I talk to, and there are many, WANT more conference games, yet the league coaches and apparently the ACC hierarchy continue to oppose them.

Television and the ACC have not been kind to the Wolfpack or Deacons. The ACC (and ESPN) killed the State-Maryland rivalry by making it the Duke-Maryland rivalry instead (and making the Devils and Terps primary playing partners), which to me never reached the intensity of the Pack vs Terps. Now, the prime expansion teams, Syracuse and Louisville, are being pushed by ESPN to play the Blues, with State and Wake being relegated to ESPNU or more likely the local tv network. ACC officials sure don’t seem to mind.

Splitting the ACC into separate football divisions has been disastrous for attendance and longstanding rivalries, especially in the Big Four. I want to see State play Duke and UVA every season, not once every decade. I don’t want to see State playing teams like South Alabama three times over a period when Duke doesn’t show up even once. I want to see Miami, Georgia Tech and especially Virginia Tech on our schedule more often rather than be forced to see Syracuse and Boston College EVERY season. And I want to see a 9th game added to the conference schedule, which would help achieve this as well as put the Big Four back on each other’s schedule every season.

Anyone who’s seen State’s OOC football schedule for next season plus our home league opponents can’t be very happy with this turkey. It’s a big part of why I’m not going to attend any more football games after being there for the past twenty seasons.

ACC Baseball teams play 40 or more games every season. So they get to play more league opponents, right? Uh-uh. State, despite having so many home games this spring, has not ONE home game vs Duke, Carolina or Wake. The ACC can take its league expansion and PC scheduling and shove ’em where the sun don’t shine!