JasonB wrote:For those who keep arguing that we should play a competitive schedule non-conference...
The average Joe doesn't give a crap who your wins are against. They just see the bottom line.
We should absolutely play a competitive OOC schedule because that's who the average Joe in Dallas cares about. The average Joe in Dallas doesn't give a crap about a bottom line that includes a bunch of fake wins over nobodies (see SMU attendance 2009-2013). Rice and NTSU have good teams this year and they'd both beat us but that doesn't mean we should emulate their scheduling strategies.
Don't you see? Rice hasn't beaten any decent teams this year, and you are claiming they are "good". That is the value of playing a weak non-conference schedule.
Rice draws flies to their football games (both in the stands and on TV) so ultimately it doesn't really matter if anyone claims they're "good" or not. That's why ultimately there's no value in weak OOC scheduling.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
I've said it before...tcu feasted mostly on poor to avg conference opponents and mostly weak OOC competition. The majority of our OOC wins were aginst schools like vandy, northwestern, navy, iowa state, etc. We did beat Tech once and we won at Clemson but those were not the norm.
SMU needs to win 10+ games for 3-4 yrs and then worry about ramping up the ooc schedule.
sbsmith wrote:Rice draws flies to their football games (both in the stands and on TV) so ultimately it doesn't really matter if anyone claims they're "good" or not. That's why ultimately there's no value in weak OOC scheduling.
