David Teel wanting a greater number of ACC football games

[CoastAtlantic]

Nine-game conference football schedule possible for ACC

Excerpt:

Furthering the push: With the Big 12 adding a championship game starting in 2017 and the Big Ten expanding its league schedule to nine games this season, the power conferences are moving closer to providing the College Football Playoff selection committee with similar data.

All five will have a title contest in 2017, and an ACC shift to nine league games would leave the Southeastern Conference as the lone holdout at eight.

This would be a hallelujah moment for those of us who believe that playing nearly half of your ACC rivals (six of 13) once, on average, every six years, once every 12 at home, is preposterous.

This would be a teeth-gnashing moment for those who believe nine league games would curtail marquee non-conference matchups.

But if ACC schools want a channel, in whatever form that may be, and coinciding revenue bump, this is a change they would be wise to make.

(Not as pressing, but related: Some ACC basketball coaches, led by Notre Dame's Mike Brey, advocate expanding the league schedule from 18 to 20 games. They believe this would enhance teams' NCAA tournament credentials, with the added benefit of creating more content for ESPN.)

 

[huskypantz]

Yikes. 9 game schedules is ominous for G5's looking for home and homes. Any school with 5 road conference games is going to need an FCS or G5 guarantee game and some conferences are trying to do away with those FCS games. Does not leave much room on the schedule.

 

[shizzle787]

Yikes. 9 game schedules is ominous for G5's looking for home and homes. Any school with 5 road conference games is going to need an FCS or G5 guarantee game and some conferences are trying to do away with those FCS games. Does not leave much room on the schedule.

The ACC isn't getting rid of FCS games anytime soon. When they avoid going 4-6 against the American, they may think about it.

 

[Fishy]

Teel is the ACC's media water boy.

He's laying track away from the crater left by the ACC Network.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

LSL Podcast: Rachel Baribeau & David Teel

On this episode of LSL, the guys spoke to Sirius XM’s Rachel Baribeau (07:05) and ACC Reporter David Teel from the Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press (01:14.45).

With David:

*Why the ACC could go to a 9-game league schedule

*Swofford managing expectations and the reasons why an ACC Network will happen

*When he expects the ACC to announce its own ESPN network

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The math is strange. They would get more home games, and therefore more games for the ACC's TV partners, by only having 8 conference games.

If they go through with it, it is simply about boxing out the G5 schools from games. Whatever, I am losing interest in it. I wish one of the G5 Presidents would sack up and sue the P5 for anti-trust violations. Blow it up.

 

[whaler11]

The math is strange. They would get more home games, and therefore more games for the ACC's TV partners, by only having 8 conference games.

If they go through with it, it is simply about boxing out the G5 schools from games. Whatever, I am losing interest in it. I wish one of the G5 Presidents would sack up and sue the P5 for anti-trust violations. Blow it up.

They don't because it's a waste of time and money and it ruins their chances to get jobs in the future.

They would be lucky to get the $3 the USFL won.

 

[billybud]

The Pac 12 has been playing nine conference games....same with the Big 12 and now with the Big Ten in 2016 (even after their coaches voted 14-0 against a nine game schedule).

"they" have already gone through with it Nelson...except for the SEC and ACC.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

They don't because it's a waste of time and money and it ruins their chances to get jobs in the future.

They would be lucky to get the $3 the USFL won.

They would win, but you are right about the fact it could be a career killer. Although shutting down or downsizing 60 programs will kill a lot of careers too.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The Pac 12 has been playing nine conference games....same with the Big 12 and now with the Big Ten in 2016 (even after their coaches voted 14-0 against a nine game schedule).

"they" have already gone through with it Nelson...except for the SEC and ACC.

Whatever. This is bad for UConn.

 

[John Greene]

Whatever. This is bad for UConn.

Along with every other conference realignment move of the past decade. If the day ever comes when something good happens for UConn with regards to CR I expect about 90% of the fan base will check to make sure it is not April 1.