[NU Sports] on non-league skeds

[cherron604 at aol.com]

as long as bowl bids are based on 6-win seasons, and one can count a 1-AA win every season, our non-conference schedule has to consist of:
 
- a lousy Div 1-AA team, always at home (Eastern Illinois and Western Illinois could work)
- a lousy Div 1 BCS conference team (think Duke or Temple) home-and-home
- 2 lousy Div 1 non-BCS schools (think Eastern Michigan and maybe UNLV) in 2 home-1 away contracts, such that we always end up with at least 3 non-conference home games, to go with 4 conference home games
 
Then, hopefully you can win at least 2 conference games and get bowl-eligible.
 
Michigan or Ohio State can afford to play a 'National' game.  Until we can consistently win 5 or 6 conference games a year, we have to have 4 patsies on the schedule - and beat them every year.
 
As for when the games are played, our home games should be Saturdays at 1 (11 for the televised conference games).
 
Road games, play them whenever, as long as it doesn't unduly impact classroom time.
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: [NU Sports] on non-league skeds


So I hear -- via WGN -- that Fitz is thrilled about
playing on FRIDAY night for a national audience.

I wish he'd said this:

"No, I am not happy with a night game at an obscure
university in a conference that doesn't matter. As far
as it is in my power to influence the selection of
non-league games, we will play BCS conference
opponents in home-and-home series or the occasional,
appropriate, non-BCS foe, such as Army and Navy, in
similiar situations. And, again as far as I have a
say, we will  never play a game not on Saturday
again."

Now I'd be excited about that!

bw






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