Time To Tweak Schedules

Both Mike Fox and Elliot Avent have suggested that the ACC needed to go back to the double elimination format  in the ACC baseball Tournament and I agree.  How would you arrive to that point  without depleting your pitching staffs and by the semi final rounds have 18-15 scores in games which has happened in the past.

Any double elimination tournament would require two weekends to complete and if you are going to take two weekends might as well let all fourteen teams play. What kind of format that takes is any body's guess but here is mine.

Weekend one the top six teams get off and for some teams that might let them off graduation weekend which is good for any player graduating being able to walk the isle.  The final eight teams start on Friday with two four teams double elimination tournaments by Monday there should be two winners who move on to two more four team double elimination tournaments  on Thursday and the two winners meet on a Monday night for the championship.

So in order to change the tournament there needs to be a change in the regular season.  Carolina not playing Wake is absolutely wrong. The league needs to play everyone in their division three times and everyone else twice.  That would bring on a 32 game schedule.  There is simply not enough weekends to play this schedule unless the first weekend  of play in February is use to play conference team that you only play twice.

This is the problem made by TV.  College conferences in the rush of greed to get as much of the TV money as possible.   You see TV have available time slots to fill and if the ACC doesn't fill those times somebody else will.  So what you have are conferences to large in number of members, and too much land space required to have conference members that have similar educational values. No longer can you get up early Saturday and drive to DC to watch State or Carolina play Maryland.  Now you must fly to South Bend or Louisville and the cost of those type weekend cuts back on the number of travel games you can afford to go to.

The bottom line is the only perfect conference is a league  where you play everybody in every sport.  The good news in all of this is if you are not flying to Boston for the game it is now on TV.  My cost to set in front of my TV to watch Boston College is the price of my cable bill.


Fike Baseball advanced to the third round in baseball with a 3-2 victory over Swansboro Saturday night.  Third round they travel to Cardinal Gibbons for a Tuesday night game.