Bear with me on this:

In posts elsewhere on this site, I've said that I think if MD gets to 8-8 in the ACC that Mark Turgeon should be Coach of the Year. Then it stuck me that Leonard Hamilton is doing a pretty good job at FSU sitting at 7-1 in the league and what seems to me to be a fairly favorable second half schedule. So I went back to look at the pre-season ACC poll and saw that FSU was picked 3rd and could drop to that position if they stumble. I then decided to try to find some orderly (if completely unscientific) way of evaluating the relative SOS in the league schedule. So I assigned each team a point value based inversely on their pre-season predicted finish. Thus UNC a game against was given 12 points because they were picked first in a 12 team league and should theoretically be the most difficult to play. Duke would be 11, FSU 10 and so on down to BC at 1. Because of the unbalanced schedule, I added and arbitrary 5 points for playing on the road. Thus, MD's game at Comcast was weighted at 12 points for MD's schedule and the game in Chapel Hill is worth 17 (12 for playing UNC + 5 for a road game). Conversely, because MD was picked 9th, the game at Comcast is worth 9 points for UNC and the game in CH is worth 4. Applying this methodology to every team, I came up with the following relative SOS (the higher the point total, the harder the schedule):

GA Tech 133

NCState 139

BC 142

Duke 142

Miami 142

Wake 142

Clemson 143

UNC 143

UVA 148

VA Tech 148

Fl. State 149

MD 157

Does anyone else think that if MD gets to 8-8 coming off a 7-9 last year, losing is best post player and 3 seniors and playing what is possibly by far the toughest league schedule that Turge will have earned serious COTY consideration