Charleston Pony wrote:Dukie wrote:leopold wrote:That's baloney - I don't buy that for a second.
We could absolutely find a P5 school that would give us a 2-1, easily offsetting the 'no return game' of another P5 team. And the list of G5 schools willing to talk to us about an equal home-and-home series is exactly the same number as the Sunbelt, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference, and UConn combined. (We genuinely need to talk to UConn about a football and basketball series).
Next theory.
I believe leopold was suggesting that SMU can find P5 teams that are willing to give SMU two home games to that P5 team's one--that's the only way a "2-for-1" would offset SMU going on the road for a paycheck game at the likes of Michigan.
I will look forward to hearing precisely which P5 school or schools is going to give us multiple games in Dallas for one at their place. Duke, even when it was the worst P5 team in the country, never did anything like that.
Right there with you. If Leopold can ABSOLUTELY find P5 teams willing to give SMU 2 for 1 deals, he needs to be the one making SMU's football schedule. I had no idea SMU had football revenue strong enough to make that happen.
Ouch. That one didn't age well. Even I had to go back and reread what I wrote. Definitely need to work on my math and pay better attention. Also, I apologize for my tone.
But look, I stand by my basic points - if we actually expect the team to start to get better, and I think we all do, we have no reason playing FCS schools, or at least not to the extent we have them listed. You want to play them one once every 5 years, fine. But we have one on the schedule multiple times in the upcoming years, and for what? I mean, we have absolutely no business playing Houston Baptist - Did we at least pick up the phone and try Rice, or UTEP, or TSU again? This isn't going to help us if we start to trend upward, and god forbid we lose to them like we did JMU.
So, yeah, my math is obviously worthless but I maintain we have no business playing FCS schools this frequently and that it's going to hurt us in the long run.