start date of academic calendar. The conference has schools that either start on the 9th, or the 17th of January (they take MLK Jr. Day off on the 16th). How many games would each school miss if they started on the 9th vs the 17th? Also, some schools break for Spring starting the 4th, others the 11th of March. So let's look:

If school started January 9th for every conference member, here's how many games each student body would miss:

UNC: 1
UVA: 2
Miami: 1
Louisville: 1
Duke: 2
Notre Dame: 2
VT: 1
Clemson: 1
Pitt: 2
Syracuse: 2
FSU: 2
GT: 2
NCSt: 2
Wake: 2
BC: 1

If school started January 17th for every conference member, here's how many games each student body would miss: (Difference vs the 9th)

UNC: 3 (+2)
UVA: 2 (0)
Miami: 2 (+1)
Lousiville: 3 (+2)
Duke: 2 (0)
Notre Dame: 2 (0)
Virginia Tech: 3 (+2)
Clemson: 2 (+1)
Pittsburgh: 3 (+1)
Syracuse: 3 (+1)
Florida State: 3 (+1)
Georgia Tech: 3 (+1)
NC State: 3 (+1)
Wake: 3 (+1)
BC: 2 (+1)

Home Games on 3/4: UNC, UVA, Louisville, VT, Clemson, Syracuse, FSU (NCSt has 3/4 as a bye date).

If you want to complain about anyone, BC actually has the best schedule of anyone in the conference in terms of students missing. Yes, bottom dweller BC, who has no one attend their games, has the best ACC Home schedule for students to attend games.

For this study, VT is in the same boat as UNC and Louisville by having 1 game before 1/9, and 3 games before 1/17. However, that's eclipsed by both Syracuse and Florida State, who have 2 games before 1/9 and 3 games before 1/17. All 5 of those schools also have THEIR LAST GAME OF THE SEASON at home, on March 4. Coincidentally, that's just when VT decides to have Spring Break, which they could push back a week if they were concerned about student attendance at 1 basketball game.

If you want to get mad, get mad at the VT academic calendar. The ACC scheduling doesn't care about academic calendars at all. And when you have to now fit 18 conference games into a season instead of 16, you are going to miss more conference games with the students, unless they go back to having the 1 wacky conference game in the first week of December.