[Husker] Hurricanes Coming to play in Lincoln

[Mike Jaixen]

My only correction to the Bill Byrne philosophy is that there's nothing wrong with trying to schedule a "National Championship" game in September... mostly because, you simply don't know who is going to be in the mix when you are scheduling years in advance.  (Miami is scheduled for 2014 and 2015; those players are now in junior high.)

Look at this weekend's Ohio State/Southern Cal game.  Somebody please give me a reason why that's not a good thing for college football.  Granted, if Ohio State loses (perhaps badly), they might be out of the national championship picture. But that's not a reason to not play this type of game.

And to be fair, the former athletic director did do a good job of lining up these types of opponents:  Virginia Tech, Tennessee, UCLA.  My criticism is the other three non-conference games that surround those games the next three years.  There should be at least one and hopefully two top-50 teams each season; there are actually zero.  (In fact, looking at Washington, we might have ZERO top-50 teams on the non-conference schedule in 2010.)

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com


--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Hurricanes Coming to play in Lincoln
> To: husker at romaine.tssi.com
> Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 9:59 AM
> > It's good to have an athletic director that
> isn't afraid of scheduling 
> > some good OOC opponents.  Like most things he did, the
> OOC schedules set 
> > up by Pedey were mostly disgraceful.  Check out 2010 -
> Western Kentucky, 
> > Idaho, @Washington, South Dakota State.  It's
> obvious that Pedey wanted 
> > to lock in at least 3 "guaranteed wins" each
> year for Callahan.
> 
> Well, I'm not so sure it was entirely his fault, Bill
> Byrne used to
> grumble about how he'd call all the teams in 1-A and
> nobody wanted to
> play Nebraska.  And Bill Byrne was probably better liked
> and admired
> by his peers than SP was.
> 
> He also articulated perhaps the best statement I've
> seen of a reasonable
> design for an OOC schedule:
> 
> 1.  No National Championship game in September
> 2.  One top 25 caliber team (usually a home/home series)
> 3.  One or two top 50 caliber teams
>  
> > If Nebraska is back in contention for BCS titles by
> this time, then OOC 
> > will be hugely important.
> 
> IF??  Oh ye of little faith!
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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