I really hate these forced rivalries. But since the Terps don't really have any natural rivals in any sport (the breaks of being the only BCS school in the state) I guess we have to live with it. Anyway, gone are the annual home-and-homes with Duke and UVA. Once ACC expansion is complete, Pitt will be the only team we see twice a year. I guess the league thinks that some of the hatred in the Ravens-Steelers rivalry will spill over....but I think that's stupid and really isn't the case here. In fact, I read an article a while back that laid out reasons why Syracuse would be a perfect rival for Maryland. Pitt? Ewwwwww. Oh well.
They will also play an 18-game league schedule so that the non-rival teams meet more often.
No major changes to football, other than they will go to a 9-game conference schedule. Syracuse will join the Atlantic Division, so the Terps will now face them every year along with their other Atlantic Division teams, UVA and two rotating teams from the Coastal Division.
http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssport.../view/29532522
I understand it makes sense, so I'm sure you're right... and I don't follow articles on MD the way I do on the O's... but do you have a link that says definitely no more home-and-home with Duke?Originally Posted by Birds of B'more
From the link I posted:
It doesn't come right out and say it, but the fact that it states each school will only play a home-and-home with its primary partner every year, and no one else, and Maryland's primary partner will be Pitt....then that pretty much sums it up.In basketball, the ACC will play an 18-game conference schedule beginning in the 2012-13 school year.
After Pitt and Syracuse join, each school will have one primary partner (Boston College and Syracuse; Clemson and Georgia Tech; Duke and North Carolina; Florida State and Miami; Maryland and Pitt; NC State and Wake Forest; Virginia and Virginia Tech).
The scheduling model will be based on a three-year cycle during which teams will play every league opponent at least once with the primary partners playing home and away annually while the other 12 rotate in groups of four: one year both home and away; one year at home only; and one year away only. Over the course of the three-year cycle primary partners play a total of six times and all other conference opponents play four times.
Found this at The Post. More what you were looking for:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...gFnQ_blog.html
BTW: There will still occasionally be seasons where UM and Duke have home-and-homes, just not every year. If I read it right it will happen once every 3 years now.The news as it pertains to Maryland basketball: Each ACC team will have just one primary opponent that it will play twice each 18-game regular season. For the Terrapins, that team will be Pittsburgh. Maryland will play the other 12 ACC teams four times over each three-season span, with a home-and-home one season, a home game one season and a road game one season.
In other words, Duke will no longer make an annual visit to Comcast Center when Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the ACC.
The last time Maryland and Duke only played once in a season was 1953-54, according to records kept at the Terrapins’ official Web site.
Everyone knew that Duke and UNC would be matched up. That left us with Pitt.
Duke-UNC staying together was a given. If not for tradition, than for money, since it's important for the ACCs TV partners to have 2 of those games per season. I just would have preferred Syracuse. Since both schools draw a ton of students from Long Island I figure that's a rivalry that could take off pretty quickly, and even divide some families. I guess for geographic purposes it makes more sense to group Syracuse with BC and Maryland with Pitt, and while I don't think it has any practical application here, there is the pro sports rivalries (Ravens-Steelers, Caps-Pens). But I seriously doubt a visit from Pitt is going to fill the Comcast Center (until the day comes that Comcast fills up no matter the opponent, that is) and it's just not a game that's going to "move the needle" among the fan base. Blech.
I would also.
This super-conference expansion bull is really screwing over the basketball season.
Another thing the ACC could have done is keep rivalries among its original members and let the old Big East teams be rivals. So Maryland and UVA could play twice a year while Pitt and VaTech did the same. It's not as good a match geographically, but close enough. The way they did it just feels like a shotgun marriage. MD and Pitt were the last two standing when the music stopped, so they got stuck together.
I'd much rather have had Syracuse as well.
I'd have done:
dook-UNC
Wake-NCST
Clempsun-Ga Tech
FSU-Miami
Va Tech-Pitt
MD-UVA
BC-Cuse
I hate it, and don't get it (though I admit that's because I don't want to get it). The 8 or 9-team ACC with home-and-home for everyone was so perfect for basketball. From the perspective of following your own team, it was fine for football too. You play each team in your conference (or close to it) and a couple or few non-conference games.
So, Duke is right.. Your not our rival?~?~?~!?!?!
I'm guessing you didn't go to dook....
No, but i will say I owe Duke University for the ability to walk.
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