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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 1010351" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>The conference schedule can be changed quickly, but it is still a big deal. Changing the conference schedule isn't just shifting one or two games, it is changing the entire schedule for every team. The ACC went through that practice in the past year because of the changes to the conference makeup. Every change would affect other teams and schedules. If GT wanted to swap Pitt and Clemson for SMU and Stanford next year, that would mean that an opponents for SMU and Stanford would have to change. It would have to be away games for the new opponents, so other teams would have to have new opponents. Making such changes would have to take into account the home/away balance for each team impacted. It would have to take into account the desire for every ACC team to play every other ACC team within a certain time frame. It would have to take into account the announced goal of not having East Coast teams travel to the West Coast more than a certain amount. They went through this exercise of trying to come up with a rotating schedule that met all of the desired criteria, and this is what they came up with. Do they really want to go through the entire process again?</p><p></p><p>Out of conference football schedules are usually made years in advance. You sign a contract to play a home-away with a team. Then you are both obligated to fulfill that contract. The game next year at Colorado was negotiated in 2016. There are only about 70 P4 teams. Unless you only want to play G5 and FCS teams out of conference, you have to enter into agreements with some of a small group of teams. FCS, G5, P4, and mutts is the normal GT OOC schedule. That only leaves 1 spot for P4 teams in it's normal schedule. Colorado only has three OOC games and is playing GT, Wyoming, and Delaware in 2025. P4, G5, and Delaware will be a G5 team in it's transition year. Unless they want to play 11 or 12 P4 games, they used the only one they have to schedule with GT. There aren't enough teams and games available to just schedule six months before the season begins.</p><p></p><p>College basketball and college baseball are both different. Baseball can schedule home-away games with Auburn and have one in the middle of a week in April and one in the middle of a week in May. It could be on a Tuesday or Wed. They could even do a Monday game if nothing else can be worked out. College basketball can schedule random games in November and December. Weekend, mid-week, Monday after a Saturday game, Friday before a Sunday game. There is a lot of flexibility in fitting games in, in both baseball and basketball. There are also a lot more games. GT had eleven, I think, OOC games last year in basketball. GT baseball has a schedule of 25 OOC games this year. Football has a total of 12 games, only 4 OOC games, and only 2 P4 games per year. It is a lot easier to be more flexible with schedules when the quantity and the availability is a lot higher. In football, GT only has 1 FBS game to schedule each year, and other teams only have one or two to schedule. It makes it a lot more difficult, and teams usually try to contract further out in the future to ensure they have opponents available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 1010351, member: 2426"] The conference schedule can be changed quickly, but it is still a big deal. Changing the conference schedule isn't just shifting one or two games, it is changing the entire schedule for every team. The ACC went through that practice in the past year because of the changes to the conference makeup. Every change would affect other teams and schedules. If GT wanted to swap Pitt and Clemson for SMU and Stanford next year, that would mean that an opponents for SMU and Stanford would have to change. It would have to be away games for the new opponents, so other teams would have to have new opponents. Making such changes would have to take into account the home/away balance for each team impacted. It would have to take into account the desire for every ACC team to play every other ACC team within a certain time frame. It would have to take into account the announced goal of not having East Coast teams travel to the West Coast more than a certain amount. They went through this exercise of trying to come up with a rotating schedule that met all of the desired criteria, and this is what they came up with. Do they really want to go through the entire process again? Out of conference football schedules are usually made years in advance. You sign a contract to play a home-away with a team. Then you are both obligated to fulfill that contract. The game next year at Colorado was negotiated in 2016. There are only about 70 P4 teams. Unless you only want to play G5 and FCS teams out of conference, you have to enter into agreements with some of a small group of teams. FCS, G5, P4, and mutts is the normal GT OOC schedule. That only leaves 1 spot for P4 teams in it's normal schedule. Colorado only has three OOC games and is playing GT, Wyoming, and Delaware in 2025. P4, G5, and Delaware will be a G5 team in it's transition year. Unless they want to play 11 or 12 P4 games, they used the only one they have to schedule with GT. There aren't enough teams and games available to just schedule six months before the season begins. College basketball and college baseball are both different. Baseball can schedule home-away games with Auburn and have one in the middle of a week in April and one in the middle of a week in May. It could be on a Tuesday or Wed. They could even do a Monday game if nothing else can be worked out. College basketball can schedule random games in November and December. Weekend, mid-week, Monday after a Saturday game, Friday before a Sunday game. There is a lot of flexibility in fitting games in, in both baseball and basketball. There are also a lot more games. GT had eleven, I think, OOC games last year in basketball. GT baseball has a schedule of 25 OOC games this year. Football has a total of 12 games, only 4 OOC games, and only 2 P4 games per year. It is a lot easier to be more flexible with schedules when the quantity and the availability is a lot higher. In football, GT only has 1 FBS game to schedule each year, and other teams only have one or two to schedule. It makes it a lot more difficult, and teams usually try to contract further out in the future to ensure they have opponents available. [/QUOTE]
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