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Man… @Haney finds the calendar feature 10 minutes after I enable it.
… or did he?
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I’ll try to knock out #2 and #5 now:
2 - Generally speaking, no. We should not. Absent a compelling reason. And I don’t think “well, we get okey-doked by Brownell” is a compelling reason. Which leads us to…
5 - Absolutely not. I hope we can all agree that getting okey-doked by Brad Brownell is bad. But since it’s me saying it, I suppose someone is going to disagree, and say that we should get okey-doked by him.
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Certainly not intentionally!
That’s just emoji in title fwiw
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Would you still be as mad about this if they scheduled one (1) game in the New York metropolitan area?
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I don’t want to give away the exciting conclusion to question #4
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As someone who grew up going to the ACCT in Greensboro with my dad every year and have very fond memories of it– scrapping the North Carolinian hold on the ACC would make my day.
As a DC resident the DC ACCT was an incredible event and aside from a few NC State fans I talked to who seemed to think they were in downtown Baghdad safety wise (maybe our new imperial occupation would make them more likely to come back?? 
), a lot of people seemed to enjoy the easy access to bars and restaurants and because of the large alumni bases of every school in DC, it was never as empty in there as some of the Greensboro sessions I’ve attended are.
The Baltimore regular season game last year also made no sense to me. Nova and UVa both certainly have more alumni in DC, and the game started at 5pm which made it extremely difficult to get there from DC or Philly without leaving work early.
I’m all for more Acela based basketball. I’m into the idea of an ACC-Big East Basketball conference mostly for the ability to play the tournament in NY. Always looking for a reason to make a trip up to NY, so getting in one of the MTEs or one off games in MSG or Barclay’s would be huge for me. I suspect since they are often already pretty ACC heavy, it is hard for us to secure the invites.
But I can’t get too worked up about OOC scheduling in a coach’s first year. I agree Charlotte isn’t ideal, but its not thaaaat bad.
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Yeah… I immediately thought calendar… then realized it was an emoji.
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Need a Jim Calhoun gif for this
(I always think it’s “they’re not that bad”, but it’s a bit off:
https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/989537557540163584
)
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I was coming on here to say the game was always intentionally being scheduled as part of ACC championship game weekend. That was one thing that always concerned me about the opponent being Clemson. I went to the last ACC title game against Clemson and they killed us in attendance. Anyway, I assumed this game was going to be the night before the football game, but I finally just checked the dates and it’s the same day? Game time hasn’t been announced, but I assume that means this game will have to be early in the day? Will be dumb as hell if us UVA fans have to miss the bball game because we’re over at our championship football game 
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Clemson is winning the natty this year, so yeah the ACCCG of it all was probably the reason they pulled out.
Oddly enough, a day or two ago, I wondered why the Clemson game hadn’t been announced, and I wondered if Dabo or someone else at Clemson might think it was bad juju to schedule it, basically because if Clemson football did miss the championship, the hoops game would be a big source of amusement for others. Or seem a bit arrogant in advance
[insert man standing in crowded room giving unpopular opinion meme]
I like our nonconference schedule
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Agree, it’s a very “like it, not love it” schedule. It’s not terrible. It’s not great.
Yeah, it’s fine. I hope Odom gets some cajones and steps up in years to come. But his track record doesn’t suggest that will be his approach. But maybe it changes with some success and security.
Honestly, as someone who is going to have to travel 3 hours min to see any game from DC, I don’t care all that much on location unless it’s either 1) in DC, 2) somewhere super cool to travel to (sorry, Charlotte), or 3) somewhere that will strengthen our OOC schedule.
Nashville is kind of cool because I can try to make enough subtle hits to those in my life to get my tickets to it as a Christmas gift, and I’ve never been.
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I’m jokingly / half jokingly / totally earnestly making this about playing in NYC, but we should be trying to play in DC every other year or so.
I know we have at Maryland coming up next year, but that’s only partial credit because there won’t be many up for grabs tix.
If the goal was decent mid major in a neutral site, then GW or Mason or Georgetown (yeah, I said it, mid major, and yeah - MCI center is basically a neutral site) in DC makes a lot more sense than Dayton in Charlotte.
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Yeah I think it is perfectly fine in general and makes a lot of sense for an entirely new team. Wish it weren’t Dayton but whatever it happens
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Kinda agree, but here is the thing:
If I ever do get around to writing what I vaguely have in mind, I think one basic take away is that in terms of making or not making the tournament, nonconference scheduling does not matter that much for a P5 team. So if that Takeaway is correct, and I think it basically is, then why not just try to maximize the amount of fun and entertaining games?
But the exception to the main Takeaway is that non-con scheduling can sort of matter at the margins. I think that when you look at your schedule overall, you wanna maximize Q1 win opportunities, and try to minimize Q3 loss opportunities. I haven’t really studied our schedule yet, but aren’t we basically only playing the best ACC teams once? And I think the craptacular ACC will provide us with plentiful Q3 loss opportunities when we play some of the bad teams at home.
And then switch to the non-con. Who is a guaranteed, solid lock to be a Q1 win opportunity? I’d put Texas in that category, and really nobody else. And I think Dayton is squarely in that Q3 loss opportunity bucket. There is a real risk they are not top 100, and there’s also a material risk that we will lose to them, which is why if we wanted to play Dayton, we’d have been better off playing them at Dayton. Because playing them at Dayton wouldn’t be a big Q3 loss opportunity. Q2 at most. And if we played them in Charlottesville, it’s less likely that we’d lose. Playing them in a neutral site, in general, is a bad idea. And playing them in Charlotte because we got okey-doked by Brownell just turns the whole thing into a farce.
Or, as I said, in my initial reaction, dumb
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LOL!
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