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Yes, I never liked playing FSU and VT at home the same season. As you wrote, it meant the following season the home schedule was diluted. Not sure what the new divison-less scheduling will be like. UNC is beginning to become a rival, more so than VT, I think.I'm just saying, the ACC portion of the schedule will always be 4 home games. We might not be able to completely control "who we play" in any given year, with the new rotation, as easily as we once did.
If you recall, when we first started the Atlantic/Coastal scheduling, we had F$U (historic rival) and VaTech (Coastal foe) always coming to Miami in the same year. I pointed this out for several years, and we finally played VaTech in the same location in consecutive years in order to flip it so that we always had EITHER VaTech or FSU at home each year, but not both.
So I tend to ignore the ACC games for the purposes of this argument, since that is out of our hands. I also kinda/sorta minimize Notre Dame (for now), as that was set up by the ACC, not any of our ADs, but I do give us credit for having the ND games on the OOC schedule. And playing the Gaytors is always a great thing.
The point I was making about what Dan needs to do is that he needs to start lining up good games now. NOW. I am grateful for what we have on the future schedule, but it's the "usual suspects". Notre Dame. Florida. Even aTm is an OOC opponent that we have played more than just about any other P5 OOC team over the past 30 years or so (not counting UCF who has recently become a P5 school).
Let's find some new blood. Let's play some teams that we haven't played in the regular season over the last 30 or 40 years. We all only live so long, there are some games that would be nice to see IN OUR LIFETIMES. And, sadly, USC hasn't happened in my lifetime. Or at least since the time when I measured my lifespan in months, not years.
We do have future home-and-home series with Auburn, South Carolina, and BYU on the books. We haven’t played those teams since the JJ-Erickson eras.
We’ve only played TAMU three times in the modern era, including this season. Miami won both earlier games in 2007 and 2008.
I’d schedule home-and-home with Texas, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan, or any of the top half of the $EC. And not a one-off neutral site game like Alabama last season or LSU when Richt was HC. We need home games.