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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4764422, member: 1023"] Agree. But we’ve gone 1-8 so far( I looked it up) since being Indy. We’ve been outscored 339-83. We have been shut out more times than we have scored more than 14 points. And sure, Michigan and Clemson are really good. But Middle of the road P5s have blasted us too. Outside of BC and Vandy, we have been in none of these games. That can’t continue. We need to beat the Vanderbilts of the world and go .500 vs BC Syracuse, Duke, NC State, Indiana type teams. Sure on occasion one or another of them has a very good team like this years Duke, but generally they are decidedly average. If we can’t get to a point where that is a realistic expectation we need to stop talking about playing 4-6 P5 teams and focus on playing 1-2. Get football into a league where it CAN be competitive, and go from there. Assuming you could pull it off would it really be that bad to play, say BC (H), Michigan (A). Then play 8 games against the AAC or somebody and maybe 1 each vs among the MAC, the MWC or the Sunbelt. I’m not sure it is that much better to go 1-5 vs 6 P4-5 teams and 5-1/4-2 vs a mix of AAC, MAC, Sunbelt and MWC. Maybe you have a great season and go 11-1, 10-2 and get ranked 19. Some of you are sort of like the farmer who wanted to enter his mule in the Kentucky Derby. Not to win but in hopes that he benefits from the association. [/QUOTE]