Blue Devil Country's Shawn Krest and All Wolfpack's Brett Friedlander appeared on a podcast to discuss the ACC scheduling model. Here, the pair discuss the best way to use the one non-conference game
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00:00 this year's schedule at 10 plus one.
00:01 Do you guys like the 10 plus one?
00:03 And what do you do with that one if it has to be someone that was not on your
00:07 schedule?
00:08 Yeah.
00:09 Do you play someone challenging or do you play an in state,
00:12 FCS, get yourself that easy game where you can get 80 guys in the game?
00:18 >> There are definitely teams that are looking for games.
00:21 I mean, NCAA and T, their conference basically scratched the whole season.
00:26 They're hoping to play, so they're trying to put together a schedule.
00:28 I would imagine that BYU is out there that's trying to play an independent
00:34 schedule.
00:36 So there are games to be had.
00:38 I would imagine that you take whatever you could get.
00:41 >> Well, I think you look at Duke's schedule, just for example.
00:45 They're losing the Middle Tennessee State game, and
00:48 they're replacing it with Florida State.
00:50 They're losing the Elon game, and they're replacing it with a trip to Syracuse.
00:54 So I think given how much harder you've just made your schedule by adding these
00:58 conference games, you have to go cupcake.
01:00 If I'm a coach, I'm gonna be pushing for, Duke has Charlotte on the schedule.
01:05 I think they keep that Charlotte game, or they try to get Elon to come to Durham and
01:09 keep that game and lose Charlotte.
01:10 But I think you go as easy as possible in this non-conference game,
01:13 if you don't have a rivalry game.
01:15 >> I think if you're North Carolina, if you can get that Auburn game in Chapel Hill,
01:21 maybe strike up a new deal where you go to Auburn in the next couple years,
01:25 you play it.
01:26 They have a chance, and their schedule's fairly challenging, but
01:30 they have a chance, if they play to potential, to win a lot of those games.
01:35 I think Carolina adding one more really tough game, plus a 10 game ACC slight,
01:40 if they have a vision of being really relevant at Thanksgiving,
01:45 you gotta play someone good outside the league.
01:46 >> If you really think you're that good, if you really think that Sam Howell can
01:49 bring you that far and your defense is good enough to be able to outscore teams,
01:55 then you really need that strength of schedule.
01:57 And I think playing that Auburn game, I think is essential.
02:00 >> For UNC, they're in a very different boat than Duke,
02:02 because they have these national hopes, if everything goes right for them.
02:07 Whereas I don't think Duke or NC State or
02:08 most of the other schools have that option.
02:11 >> Okay, well, let's say for the sake of discussion, Auburn isn't gonna happen,
02:14 and you're in charge of Carolina's plus one game.
02:18 How low would you go on the totem pole as an acceptable opponent?
02:23 Would you go Vanderbilt, for example?
02:26 Would you try to keep it, SEC, you can't get Big Ten, you can't get back 12.
02:31 >> I would say maybe a rematch with APP.
02:33 I would say maybe APP State would be somebody that you could bring in,
02:36 cuz that's gonna give you strength of schedule.
02:38 If you're going SEC, I would say Vanderbilt is a natural match for
02:42 Wake Forest.
02:43 So I would say maybe Tennessee would be the one to try to go after as far as