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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 31, 2023 14:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by sluggermatt15 on Jan 27, 2024 20:48:08 GMT -5
This thread should be pinned closer to when the season starts.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Feb 17, 2024 10:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by volleav on Feb 17, 2024 14:55:05 GMT -5
When is opening weekend this year? Aug 23 or 30?
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Post by trojansc on Feb 17, 2024 17:34:27 GMT -5
When is opening weekend this year? Aug 23 or 30? Opening Day is Fri, Aug 30th
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Post by DustyDude87 on Mar 7, 2024 18:25:17 GMT -5
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Mar 8, 2024 8:09:16 GMT -5
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Post by huskervolleyfan14 on Mar 12, 2024 12:18:25 GMT -5
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Post by trojansc on Mar 12, 2024 18:18:03 GMT -5
ACC going back to 20-game schedule.
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Post by n00b on Mar 12, 2024 18:24:14 GMT -5
ACC going back to 20-game schedule. Looks like a single round robin over the first nine weeks (plus a second match against your travel partner). Then over Thanksgiving, one home and one away with teams in a similar tier. Also, Pitt and SMU are travel parters.
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Post by vbnerd on Mar 13, 2024 9:13:23 GMT -5
ACC going back to 20-game schedule. Looks like a single round robin over the first nine weeks (plus a second match against your travel partner). Then over Thanksgiving, one home and one away with teams in a similar tier. Also, Pitt and SMU are travel parters. I wouldn't have expected that but if you look it up, American Airlines runs 4 flights between the two each day. Louisville to Dallas is only 1x per day. Notre Dame is a longer drive from the Chicago airports. I guess I get it.
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Post by n00b on Mar 13, 2024 9:35:32 GMT -5
Looks like a single round robin over the first nine weeks (plus a second match against your travel partner). Then over Thanksgiving, one home and one away with teams in a similar tier. Also, Pitt and SMU are travel parters. I wouldn't have expected that but if you look it up, American Airlines runs 4 flights between the two each day. Louisville to Dallas is only 1x per day. Notre Dame is a longer drive from the Chicago airports. I guess I get it. Yep. The other option that might've made sense is Pitt being Syracuse's travel partner. That's about 45 minutes further than BC. But I imagine there are a ton of flights each day from Boston to Dallas. But competitively, the ACC wouldn't want to stick Pitt with a second match against Syracuse.
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Post by vbnerd on Mar 13, 2024 11:04:49 GMT -5
I wouldn't have expected that but if you look it up, American Airlines runs 4 flights between the two each day. Louisville to Dallas is only 1x per day. Notre Dame is a longer drive from the Chicago airports. I guess I get it. Yep. The other option that might've made sense is Pitt being Syracuse's travel partner. That's about 45 minutes further than BC. But I imagine there are a ton of flights each day from Boston to Dallas. But competitively, the ACC wouldn't want to stick Pitt with a second match against Syracuse. Looks like 10 each day (spirit hasn't started yet, and I don't see VB players fitting in those seats anyway), at an hour longer flight time for a team going each direction each weekend.
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Post by bluepenquin on Mar 13, 2024 15:41:21 GMT -5
ACC going back to 20-game schedule. Seems like 18 would have made more sense (RPI wise) - but maybe adding those extra 2 matches against Stanford/Louisville/Pittsburgh/Florda State for those top teams will be worth it. But then if they are going to do that - why not just have a season ending ACC tournament. Or better yet - 17 matches (1 against everyone in the conference) - then a conference tournament. Sounds like they are already going to pit the big dogs against each other that last week. Also - doesn't look like very many Saturday matches during the conference play.
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Post by n00b on Mar 13, 2024 17:31:54 GMT -5
ACC going back to 20-game schedule. Seems like 18 would have made more sense (RPI wise) - but maybe adding those extra 2 matches against Stanford/Louisville/Pittsburgh/Florda State for those top teams will be worth it. But then if they are going to do that - why not just have a season ending ACC tournament. Or better yet - 17 matches (1 against everyone in the conference) - then a conference tournament. Sounds like they are already going to pit the big dogs against each other that last week. Also - doesn't look like very many Saturday matches during the conference play. I’m not sure that adding two matches against similar competition is worse than only playing 18 matches. Pitt, Louisville and GT all playing a second time last year was definitely good for them. Although I agree about conference tournaments. And the all-day basketball every day this week makes me want that from volleyball. It’s a great lead in to the NCAA tournament.
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