[NU Sports] Non-con scheduling

[Mark S. Ament]

I this is an accurate description of our NC slate for the foreseeable
future, then I'd say it's about right.  It's not too tough overall, with the
right mix of winnable games.  The renewal of the Duke series and initiation
of one with SMU and Vandy bring schools that should be beatable.  Syracuse
is an unknown as they could and probably should have restored the program by
the time they come back to the schedule.  I could do without  seeing the Air
Force option but  I suppose the academies are a fact of life for us.  Now
that strength of schedule is meaningless, I think this looks promising.
Next year again gives us 3 possible NC wins as ASU will be breaking in a new
QB and we will have to take advantage of that with that tough stretch near
the end of @MSU, Mich, Iowa and @OSU.

Mark
Mark S. Ament
prplehaze at insightbb.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Maycock
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:50 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Non-con scheduling

The question of non-conference football schedule is really moot for
anything like the near-term time frame, assuming Far East's info:

http://www.fareastwildcat.com/Schedule2004.html

is accurate. Things are set through 2009, and partially set out to
2013. Although there are perhaps too many familiar faces on the
upcoming slates, I'd say the schedules look just about right to me. 

Overall, I'd say the 2005 slate looks a little easier than 2004 (not
easy, mind you, but easier). 

Personally, I liked this year's non-con schedule. Although TCU ended up
having a tough year, TCU, ASU, and Kansas were all perfectly
respectable, challenging, mid-level opponents. The Cats easily could
have won all 3 games. A couple breaks go our way in those first two
games, and the Hawaii game would have just been an unfortunate bump in
a bowl-bound road.

Never seen anything like this year. I probably said this before, but if
you changed the outcome of just one or two plays per game, we could
*easily* be 9 and 3. Or 0 and 12. 

Tom

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