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Topic: RE: And in other jealous news...

Topic: RE: And in other jealous news...

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BillyTheCat
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RE: And in other jealous news...

Posted: 3/5/2015 4:39:33 PM

I truly hope some of you do not have these expectations.

D.A.
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RE: And in other jealous news...

Posted: 3/5/2015 5:12:11 PM

I think schedule making is a difficult science, especially when you are looking five to ten years out, and it takes the planets aligning for a team to do what Boise has done, both in building the program and having the schedules to be able to be in the argument for a top four bowl. However, they definitely had strategic intent and an entire state's backing to make their rise to notoriety happen. Boise is THE TEAM in Idaho, so that definitely helps to have the backing of a multi hundred thousand resident city to boost your efforts.

NIU really backed into their good fortune en route to the Orange Bowl more or less on a kismet of circumstance, and if we make it to consideration for a top four bowl, I believe it would follow that route, not via the Boise model. Hit the Meigs Gold one more time if you think we will ever hit Boise status...ever.

I like what we have done in scheduling in recent years, appearing far more strategic than in the pre-Schaus regimes, however I would like to see us pushing our degree of difficulty of non-cons in the years to come, excluding the pay dates, which by definition are intended to be a difficult game. I have no interest in playing perennial top tens for our pay dates, such as the Alabama opportunity that didn't happen a couple of years ago.

Just move the Sunbelt games to AAC/Mtn West opponents and perhaps occasionally switch the FCS opponents for CUSA/SunBelts, and I'll be happy. I'd actually be really pleased to see more MAC V Mtn West games, as I really enjoy the Mtn West style of play, and wouldn't mind making a few of those trips out west in the non-con schedule. After all, a flight is a flight, and once you have to fly the costs for charters aren't that much greater regardless of your destination, so the budget hit for the program wouldn't be that consequential.

The Few, The Proud, The Bobcats!

And for the record, I hate tOSU, and Ricordati and Torgerson are DB's.

"This isn't just another walkover from the MAC." Kirk Herbstreit, another DB, on College Football Gameday

Campus Flow
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RE: And in other jealous news...

Posted: 3/5/2015 7:30:26 PM

D.A. wrote:

NIU really backed into their good fortune en route to the Orange Bowl more or less on a kismet of circumstance, and if we make it to consideration for a top four bowl, I believe it would follow that route, not via the Boise model. Hit the Meigs Gold one more time if you think we will ever hit Boise status...ever.

Boise this past season backed into the Access Bowl at a 10-2 record. They played Miss St, BYU, Louisiana and Connecticut in the non-conference and were rewarded for it. I have no personal issues with backing into high level post season opportunities. I would like to see an OHIO schedule that gives the team a shot even with a few losses. That is not painting the turf blue or watching Napoleon Dynamite between workouts. Its not a lack of willingness to spend that is a problem anymore. Its the scheduling philosophy at Ohio that is limiting.

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2010 97-83 win over Georgetown in NCAA 1st round
2012 45-13 victory over ULM in the Independence Bowl
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