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Can you explain the thought behind AD/Coaches ducking? by gregmorrissey

This keeps getting thrown out and seemingly accepted as fact. Is there evidence that we are purposely dodging high quality opponents or any of the top teams? We've scheduled Georgia recently, scheduled Wisconsin, scheduled Ohio State next year, and don't we have Alabama scheduled towards the end of the decade?

I'm all for hating on Swarbrick and Kelly when it makes sense, i.e. celebrating "winningest", promising 5 games to the ACC, scheduling Toledo and other MAC-level teams, but I don't get the impression they are ducking anyone.

Off the top of my head, we have 4 games to schedule a year (12 - 5 ACC - 3 USC/Stanford/Navy). This year was Wisconsin, Purdue, Toledo, and Cincinnati. I'm not sure that's the worst slate that could be put together assuming USC and Stanford don't suck like they do and you are picking up one marquee game out of the 5 ACC games. This year didn't work out that way.

Next year, of course, looks worse. It appears that we only have 4 ACC games so we had 5 games to schedule. We chose Ohio State, Marshall, California, BYU (in Vegas), UNLV. I don't like the Marshall and UNLV games at all and would have preferred to replace one of them with a Purdue/Michigan/Michigan St/Northwestern-type game. At the same time, I don't think it's an absurdly bad schedule even if it's not ideal.