If your team plays in the ACC it would be poor judgement (aka stupid) to schedule a very tough non-conference schedule. Between the regular ACC season and the ACC tournament you are already playing 10 top 15 ranked games - in addition to that they played other good teams like USC and Navy. Seems a bit ridiculous to ask for more. Just how hard are you going to ride your players and hope to be healthy at the end of the year when it really matters. The goal is to be healthy and battle tested for the NCAA tournament - nothing more. It is great that they have a tradition of playing some great local schools like BU, Yale, UMass etc to round out the season and not fly all over the country.