My bad. Still a stupid schedule. Maryland should be a William & Mary and Coastal should be a home game. Our schedulers are stupid. Not having 7 home games is dumb dumb dumb
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Agreeā¦not doing Elliott any favors. Itās not like college hoops, where SOS mattersā¦at least if youāre nowhere near the CFBP level. Schedule easy OOC games for a few years, make a couple of bowls, build recruiting momentum.
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Football OOC is strange. I tend to largely agree with the schedule cupcakes more than not.
However football has the wrinkle of OOC games being scheduled so far ahead of time that predicting trends can be difficult. Toss in the additional wrinkle of football programs gaming the system so much more and that includes bad programs using OOC as their primary money maker and there are a ton of obstacles.
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For a long time now itās been pretty easy to predict future trends for Virginia footballā¦ 
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Think thatās fair for the difficulty but doesnāt really excuse only having 6 home games. Thatās just flat out a mistake. Or if itās not a mistake, if they intentionally only scheduled 6, an even bigger issue
For some reason I always thought even H/A scheduling was standard. Going back to 1990, Virginia has usually enjoyed an extra home tilt. 1991 and 1997 were outliers 7H, 4A and 2013 was the only season in that span where there were 8 home games to 4 away.
in 1993, 1997, 2000 Virginia played more Away games than home (6A 5H).
Our Average # Home games in that 33 year span (excluding seasons in which more or less than 12 regular season games were played) = 6.666666ā¦ to a 5.28 average of away games
Tennessee last year was our only regular season neutral site game during that span
For additional context - The 3 game Coastal Carolina series, a H-A-H arrangement was announced in September 2021 and Coach Bronco announced his resignation December 2021. The Maryland A-H series was announced in 2017, and all other games on this yearās schedule are ACC slate, or adjacent in the case of Notre Dame which was also a scheduling item from 2017. Our actual 2024 ACC H-A slate is 4 at home and 4 on the road
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Nine conference games though. Weāre in a year with five away, four home.
More difficult to get all of your non-cons at home, particularly when scheduled so far in advance.
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Eight. Notre Dame isnāt a conference game.
Scheduled by the conference. We had no say.
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You just nailed and summarized with stats and data what I was trying to get at.
So much of football non-con is 4-6 years out that its more difficult than ever to predict and anticipate in the modern landscape.
The home away split is not a major concern for me TBH.
The home field advantage for the Hoos is not great especially when playing a remotely moderate team that is close geographically. The alternative is to then schedule even weaker opponents which in turn turns off even more fans and has the opposite affect. Iāll concede the financial loss of the extra home game hurts, but again not a game breaker. Ticket sales arenāt what fund the department.
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Correct, BUT, it was scheduled far enough in advance that we should have planned around it and NOT scheduled a second OOC away game for the same season.
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Virginia also cancelled an away 2025 matchup with BYU in late 2021, and 4 games with Liberty that would have taken place 2023-30
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Wasnāt @ Coastal originally a 2022 game we cancelled (for good reason)? This is the makeup date. Wish it would have been a different year, but here it is.
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appears to be part of the originally announced series
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Iāve mentioned before that we should always have at least 7 home games and the OOC should be 3H 1A (or neutral). Also, we should not play more than 1 P5 school a season. Putting a localish FCS team on the schedule every year is a must too.
Scheduling the road game of the HAH Coastal series for the same year that weāre already @ND was a mistake.
Also, scheduling the Maryland game the year we had ND on the schedule was a mistake too.
Last year was dumb scheduling too. @UMD and @Tennessee (neutral in Nashville, same thing) the same year? W&M and JMU were fine. We just didnāt beat JMU like we shouldāve. Replace @UMD with home vs Coastal/ECU/Charlotte/Marshall,etcā¦ and thereās a decent chance we go bowling.
This yearās OOC schedule should be something like Richmond, @ND, and home vs Coastal and ODU or something like that.
Until or unless we establish ourselves as a solid 8 wins a year program, thatās how we have to schedule for success. Go 3-1 OOC, 3-5 ACC, go bowling.
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As others pointed out (which also corrected me, which is fair), the Coastal away game was supposed to be in 2022 before the tragedy, and was then rescheduled to 2024 when we had an open OOC slot. Iām against scheduling a good G5 team H-A (even as a H-A-H) in general, but do rescind my complaint about it being the same year weāre at ND, because it wasnāt supposed to happen that way when arranged, the tragedy being a valid excuse at this point.
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Other ACC teams that play ND away manage it. And, as was pointed out on another board today, we donāt have our OOC filled out for 2025 and 2026. VT has theirs filled out until 2030. UNC until 2028. Something is fundamentally wrong with the football scheduling process
Not true. CC was scheduled for Scott in 2022. Iām not sure when that games been rescheduled to. I see Coastal on the 2025 schedule, but not after that.
And in fact, when the series was signed, it was always 2022 and 2025 at Scott and 2024 at Coastal. We agreed to the series in Sept of 2021, so it was well after we knew the details of the ND games.
I know bball winning makes the need to cope with other UvA sporting news , but this seems like a good thing:
https://x.com/jacquiefran_/status/1750600326460149809?s=46&t=BborzeYVjI_-zdz6KbhRWg
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