Chance of ACC teams playing full round robin schedule

I don't think it's much of a possibility but it is being considered.

Round-robin remains a possibility for the ACC
By Rob Daniels, Staff Writer, Greensboro News & Record

GREENSBORO -- ACC men's basketball coaches will discuss the possibility of playing a 20-game, full round-robin conference schedule for 2004-05, the first year of membership for Miami and Virginia Tech, when they meet at conference headquarters next week.

"It'll be a model, but it'll be one of many models," said Fred Barakat, the ACC associate commissioner in charge of basketball issues. "We want to put them all out there for them before we meet with the athletics directors."

The ADs are expected to convene Sept. 8 to discuss -- and perhaps decide -- several issues stemming from this summer's vote to take on Miami and Virginia Tech as the league's 10th and 11th members.

Among them: whether to conduct a championship football game in December 2004; each school's perennial opponents in football and basketball if the full round-robin is vetoed; and a review of revenue-sharing policies.

A 20-game league basketball schedule would please television networks, which yearn for as many ACC contests as possible, but it would hamstring coaches because it would limit them to as few as six or seven nonconference games in any one season.

Many coaches also are concerned that such a schedule would be too tough.

For the 2003-04 season, in which schools will still play 16 league games in the nine-team ACC, Virginia is taking full advantage of the relative freedom by scheduling seven nonconference teams that finished worse than 200th in the final 2002-03 RPI rankings.

Other possibilities for the 2004-05 schedule include 16 and 18 ACC games. A schedule with fewer than 20 league games would mark the end of the full round-robin, and that would leave the ADs to determine which schools will be perpetually paired with one another.

"I don't think Solomon could figure this one out," Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser said, referring to the Biblical sage.

 

I would like to see this happen, but would we end up hurting ourselves? Our RPI as a conference may be higher since there would be less of the cupcake games scheduled by some teams, but then the overall win-loss % would be lower since we are beating up on eachother.

Then if you did a round robin for a few years and later we add the 12th team, then what? 2 divisions?

 

Good points fever. What if they played everyone 1 time during the season, alternating locations yearly? If say Duke & UNC want to play another (non-conf) contest at the other school, I say go ahead and schedule it (a win-win for $$$ and RPI too). They could have a couple more games to schedule outside the ACC then. Of course, it might cause a nightmare for tie-breakers based on the number of games played too.

On the other hand, if UVA doesn't do well in conference play this season, they're toast for an at-large bid. With an OOC schedule consisting of Mount St. Mary's, Virginia Tech, High Point, Virginia Military Institute, James Madison, Loyola Marymount, Coastal Carolina, Florida A & M (all below #200 least season) with Minnesota and Providence, they could use the help of a round-robin.

I think in the past few years Indiana and Purdue (I think) scheduled a non-conference game when they weren't on each other's schedules.

 

too much..unless the other conferences do the same and drop some patsies...I'm all for it if everyone does it.