eagle216 {l Wrote}:b0mberMan {l Wrote}:Bates said no more 6 home game schedules after last year. I expect that means we won't be scheduling Tennessee, unless he decides to count Fenway as a home game.
Because of this, we should play 2 cupcakes next year at home. It's fine. No one bitches when the SEC does it. U Florida hasn't scheduled a home and home non-conference game outside their state in like 20 years.
SEC teams do not need to bring in marquee OOC teams in order to sell tickets and drum up interest. And I know the SEC is probably overrated, but that's only because it is rated so high. Game in- game out, SEC schedule is still tougher than an ACC schedule. We have cupcakes in conference. For the most part, the SEC had none.
We are not winning a NC any time soon, so manipulating the schedule so that we can go 12-0 is dumb. And we should win enough conference games, coupled with cupcake OOC games, to ensure bowl eligibility even with a marquee OOC game. And this assumes we lose it. We beat USC this year, and they were at least as good as any Big Um we can get in here no named Alabama or Oregon.
Ok, I'll indulge you. I'll even indulge the best possible case for your point of view. Let's say hypothetically speaking we somehow manage to secure both Missouri and Tennessee to fill out the schedule next year...at home! Now our home slate is FSU, VT, NCST, Wake, Missouri and Tennessee!
Wow, holy shit, what a home slate! Forget about the fact that we're going to 5-7 and every recruit on our board is going to start questioning Daz and the future of the program, we scheduled baby rapists! I bet with that kind of home schedule season ticket sales don't even go up by more than 1,000. Wow, we get our average up to 34K.
Forget that bullshit, give me cupcakes. I'll accept 33K average next year and the fact that you'll be bored. I'll also take another bowl and hopefully an improved win total. In fact, I'd ride that formula until we're consistently a 10 win team again. Because 10 wins and national attention will fill the stadium more in the long term than baby rapists and 5 wins. And its better for the program.