eagle33 {l Wrote}:dtwalrus {l Wrote}:eagle33 {l Wrote}:OOC will be cupcake city as long as Bates is in charge. Look at the teams he's scheduled since he's been here. Stanford is the only name team I can think of. A lot of the remaining fan base might be dead by the time those games get played. We need to get rid of this guy, he is just an awful fit at BC.
Cupcake as in only one P5 and two G5's and an FCS every year, absolutely. I think Bates would love to go 3-1 OOC every year at the very worst.
Cupcake in terms of the one P5 marquee game, that remains to be seen. Purdue is cupcake P5, but there weren't many options left and we're rebuilding. I'd like to hope that moving forward Bates will be targeting more P5's like Stanford than like Purdue.
Personally, moreso than the OOC schedule, I think Bates needs to push for changes to the ACC scheduling. It's time for a Big East and ACC Division split. Give us VT, Miami, Louisville, Syracuse, VT and Pitt every year and the home slate starts looking better already. Just get rid of the fucking Carolina teams.
Howard and Wagner say hi.
In your ACC/BE split, we already play VT, Louisville and Cuse every year. You would exchange annual games with Clemson and FSU for games with Pitt and Miami. I'm not in favor of that. It would be nice to have Miami and Pitt on the schedule more often than NC State and Wake but that's the price you pay in the age of realignment. Can't wait to see what the B12 ends up looking like if/when they expand.
I'm also assuming no permanent crossover in my scenario.
1) Trading FSU for Miami annually.
2) Trading Clemson for Pitt annually.
3) Trading NCST and Wake annually for two crossover's, which in most years would include one of either FSU, Clemson or GT.
Trades 1 and 2 alone aren't worth it, but trade number 3 makes it all worthwhile. Especially if you go to a 9 game schedule too, then you're playing 3/7 crossover every year and Clemson and FSU every other year practically.
