Teams limit playbook early in the season, not 10 games in. By the time they played us, everyone had seen their playbook.
It’ll be interesting to revisit this and see what the actual lines turn out to be. I would guess (hope) we’ll be favored by more against Delaware and Buffalo
As 17.5 point dogs. Wouldn't have been a big deal if it happened, and it didn't anyway.
So 7-4 according to the line. Until we can go 10-2 every year, our scheduling is just fine.
A w is a w. It was a great day and I’ll take it all day long over the decade + of misery I sat through.
2 things can be true. We played our faces off, and UNC-Chapel Hill looked more like UNC-Greensboro on that day. They did not care to be there. We did, and no apologies for being the only team that cared for the game.
True. But, it speaks volumes about how entitled these P4s are. They can say “if we brought out A game then” but they suited up in their powder blue and got a-whipped however you slice it.
absolutely.
Well, granted it was in our backyard but Fenway was glad we were there and the fans that showed up... As for scheduling P-4 I say it bring it on - we wont be playing the top of the P-4, we'll likely play the bottom 2 - tiers so be it. Now if there is a conference that did us ill last year it was the ACC with the bad officiating we got, so yea, maybe we only schedule 1-2 ACC schools. And those schools we played - they were not the best or most excited to play us competetion but were like UNC was in that regard but they had the officials not so in the bowl game. Losing to two teams on the same field (our opponents were not just in school colors but in the black and white stripes). This is why that UNC felt so special. RE: zoo and his brown colored glasses. That season might be a spring board or it might not but that doesn't mean it was NOT a special season. No not like the Dream season of Tate George, Scott Burrell (he actually has an NBA championship ring being able to play and practice with Michael Jordon himself!), and others. And do you think those guys who played in that dream season pictured what would happen 10 years later or what those fans thought would happen in 10 years. But the Coach - he had a vision and yet he didn't know either. But it happened and not because we played cupcakes. Yes we were in the Big East but we were the team that didn't belong as we were notoriously bad back in the day. But we played and and had our Cinderella moment in MBB - now why not in football, why not dream and play who we are scheduled to play and simply ask for it to be a fair contest and see what happens! I'm not pinning for teams that would put our players into the ground with no shot of winning. You act like P-4 competition is OSU the top 50% of the BIG, 80% of the SEC, ot the top4 in the BIG 12.
Thats true of 90% of all bowl games and nobody ever liked playing against the G5 qualifier or Big East rep..
agree with you in these NIL times. prior to a couple years ago, i'd say your 90% would be way off. a bowl was always a reward for everyone except maybe the top teams who didn't make it to the BCS or CFP. For everyone else, game 13 was a treat. That was all prior to kids getting paid (out in the open).
I want to play all P4 teams. But I also want to win 9-10 of those games. I want us to be that good. That's what I want.
a lot of folks here agree that payday games do us no favors at this time.
Schools that schedule like G6 remain G6. I get that we need to win, but we also need to try to stand above the G6. We need to be "Notre Dame Light" now that BYU isn't that anymore. We aren't going to recruit P4 caliber players unless the schedule is better than most G6 schools play.
This. Ideally we’d be scheduling 4-5 P4 teams with one of them being a stretch team, and we fill the rest of the schedule out with upper level AAC and PAC teams. Maybe the likes of JMU or Liberty. UMass too, for the rivalry.
