toadallytexan
ToadallyTexan
QUOTE(West Coast Johnny @ Jun 3 2010, 12:41 PM) [snapback]567763[/snapback]
Losing a non-conference game is a bad thing, not a good. I hope the league stays with a 8 game schedule.
Play all nine. Man up! TCU wants to play BSU, BYU, and UU every year. Get through that schedule undefeated and you are so much closer to going to the NC game. GP is smart enough to recognize the landscape will have changed considerably and the luxury of an FCS game is no more.
What has hurt the PAC 10 lately is not their round-robin schedule so much as they were overrated.
I am sick of" play-it-safe arguments" in the name of Realpolitik, to continue to cheapen this game. Rather than resist eroding what is great about NCAA football, we're urged to go along. I say,screw Fla's and UT's example -- imitate OU's, and give fans games on our schedule worth seeing...and that's not FCS teams, and that's not skipping tough in-conference teams. I do not propose to invite BSU, only to let them skate in any given year and not have to face TCU, BYU and the Utes.
The bottom three teams that are dragging us down (God love 'em)only have two more years to catch fire...Sorry, but I don't see them willing to do what it takes, or pay what it costs to make that quick a turn-around. Having the other two BCS criteria made stronger by adding BSU, is our most realistic chance to shame the BCS into granting the waiver for the other one. Ducking playing them, just dilutes the main reason for bringing them in.
The latest six-teams-to- the- Pac rumor also makes having (and playing) BSU a good move. If you have to bemoan the toughness of that prospect, maybe you would be better served on the BF.com board, where they talk about readjusting goals downward from ever hoping to be in the NC game.
Losing a non-conference game is a bad thing, not a good. I hope the league stays with a 8 game schedule.
Play all nine. Man up! TCU wants to play BSU, BYU, and UU every year. Get through that schedule undefeated and you are so much closer to going to the NC game. GP is smart enough to recognize the landscape will have changed considerably and the luxury of an FCS game is no more.
What has hurt the PAC 10 lately is not their round-robin schedule so much as they were overrated.
I am sick of" play-it-safe arguments" in the name of Realpolitik, to continue to cheapen this game. Rather than resist eroding what is great about NCAA football, we're urged to go along. I say,screw Fla's and UT's example -- imitate OU's, and give fans games on our schedule worth seeing...and that's not FCS teams, and that's not skipping tough in-conference teams. I do not propose to invite BSU, only to let them skate in any given year and not have to face TCU, BYU and the Utes.
The bottom three teams that are dragging us down (God love 'em)only have two more years to catch fire...Sorry, but I don't see them willing to do what it takes, or pay what it costs to make that quick a turn-around. Having the other two BCS criteria made stronger by adding BSU, is our most realistic chance to shame the BCS into granting the waiver for the other one. Ducking playing them, just dilutes the main reason for bringing them in.
The latest six-teams-to- the- Pac rumor also makes having (and playing) BSU a good move. If you have to bemoan the toughness of that prospect, maybe you would be better served on the BF.com board, where they talk about readjusting goals downward from ever hoping to be in the NC game.