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LSU 2018 opener

Havanacane said:
Probably already been covered that they are working on opening game in 2018 in Dallas versus LSU. Didn't know if miami confirmed if it was happening or not but my buddy knows a guy who works for LSU and he said it was a done deal. Tifwiw.
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i'll be there, health willing. We might be decent again by then.
 
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SevenNSeven said:
Don't think we can really afford not to play some of these programs in a home & home.



The going rate on paying a FBS school to come play you has been going up steadily over the last decade. It's get getting harder and harder for schools that aren't in the top tier as far as revenue to arrange. If you're Miami, it's very difficult to make enough off of ticket sales after Scum Life takes a cut, to pay a school like Toledo and still turn a profit; Miami can't even price their tickets effectively do to the huge surplus for a game like that. Hence, you see us in home-and-homes against Arky State, Toledo, FAU. To be honest, the FAU arrangement is fantastic, getting 2 home games with essentially 1 return that doesn't cost the school anything in travel expenses (i'd look for hard feelings with FIU to be eventually smoothed over, and a series with them to be reestablished, because of the same deal.)
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We would still make more money paying a team to come than we would traveling to toledo. I understand we dont have that much miney but we should be scheduling 3 non conference home games a year (1 on road). Maybe 1 road and 1 neutral, but thats it
 
calinative umstudent said:
Tad Footeball said:
calinative umstudent said:
I really still can't believe we have a game scheduled AT Toledo. Or have ever scheduled a game to be played AT Toledo. Our schedule for 2016, 17, and 18 is weak.
IMO we need to take Toledo off 2017 and 2018 and Arkansas St off 2017. Schedule a real non-conference home-away series for 2016 and 2017 (home 2016 because we also play at ND, away 2017), play LSU 2018, maybe try to get the Rutgers home game swapped to 2018.
What's up with us scheduling weak teams to play on the road against? **** 2015 we are scheduled to play at FAU and at Cincinnati. That is just bad scheduling in my opinion. We should only have road non-conference games when it is a power 5 conference team. Maybe it's just me though...
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What's the drawback to scheduling like the $EC though? If we win the ACC those years we're probably getting into the Playoff. If not, it's not like the ACC runner-up is getting in unless they expand it to 8 teams by then. I'm obviously for a quality schedule as a fan but not when other conferences don't and not only aren't penalized but are rewarded.
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SEC conference teams do have a quality schedule. First of all they already "have tougher conference games" so they have the ability to schedule weaker teams outer conference, while still maintaining the perception they have a difficult schedule. Even if they don't really, all that matters is what the selection committee believes. And regardless, we shouldn't be scheduling home-away series with bad teams.
Some SEC future schedules.
1) LSU: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/lsu-tigers.php ; They have Syracuse, Penn St, ASU, Wisconsin, UCLA, and Okalahoma, and now us on their future schedule, and when they aren't playing those teams, all their other games are at home. They really do challenge themselves.
2) Arkansas: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/arkansas-razorbacks.php ; they play Texas Tech, TCU, Michigan, Texas. But again they schedule the rest at home.
3) Tennessee: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/tennessee-volunteers.php ; who play Oklahoma, Vtech, USC, Nebraska, Connecticut.
4) Yearly games like UGA vs GTech, Kentucky vs Louisville, South Carolina vs Clemson, UF vs FSU.
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I'm not going to get into the myth of the $EC conference schedule but of those future non-conf games you
cited- how many are truly on the road? Don't count fake "neutral" site games or those basically mandated in-state rivalry games. I'm personally going by their history as a whole as being chickensh!t in scheduling non-conf road games.
 
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Tad Footeball said:
calinative umstudent said:
Tad Footeball said:
calinative umstudent said:
I really still can't believe we have a game scheduled AT Toledo. Or have ever scheduled a game to be played AT Toledo. Our schedule for 2016, 17, and 18 is weak.
IMO we need to take Toledo off 2017 and 2018 and Arkansas St off 2017. Schedule a real non-conference home-away series for 2016 and 2017 (home 2016 because we also play at ND, away 2017), play LSU 2018, maybe try to get the Rutgers home game swapped to 2018.
What's up with us scheduling weak teams to play on the road against? **** 2015 we are scheduled to play at FAU and at Cincinnati. That is just bad scheduling in my opinion. We should only have road non-conference games when it is a power 5 conference team. Maybe it's just me though...
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What's the drawback to scheduling like the $EC though? If we win the ACC those years we're probably getting into the Playoff. If not, it's not like the ACC runner-up is getting in unless they expand it to 8 teams by then. I'm obviously for a quality schedule as a fan but not when other conferences don't and not only aren't penalized but are rewarded.
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SEC conference teams do have a quality schedule. First of all they already "have tougher conference games" so they have the ability to schedule weaker teams outer conference, while still maintaining the perception they have a difficult schedule. Even if they don't really, all that matters is what the selection committee believes. And regardless, we shouldn't be scheduling home-away series with bad teams.
Some SEC future schedules.
1) LSU: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/lsu-tigers.php ; They have Syracuse, Penn St, ASU, Wisconsin, UCLA, and Okalahoma, and now us on their future schedule, and when they aren't playing those teams, all their other games are at home. They really do challenge themselves.
2) Arkansas: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/arkansas-razorbacks.php ; they play Texas Tech, TCU, Michigan, Texas. But again they schedule the rest at home.
3) Tennessee: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/tennessee-volunteers.php ; who play Oklahoma, Vtech, USC, Nebraska, Connecticut.
4) Yearly games like UGA vs GTech, Kentucky vs Louisville, South Carolina vs Clemson, UF vs FSU.
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I'm not going to get into the myth of the $EC conference schedule but of those future non-conf games you
cited- how many are truly on the road? Don't count fake "neutral" site games or those basically mandated in-state rivalry games. I'm personally going by their history as a whole as being chickensh!t in scheduling non-conf road games.
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It doesn't matter what's on the road. If you are smart you try to schedule as many at home as possible. Now you don't take it to the extreme that UF does, but why wouldn't you try to schedule home games, Non Conference games at home don't make them chicken****, the fact that they are scheduling crappy teams make them chicken****.
IMO, LSU and Arkansas clearly aren't scared.
 
Good god the nonsense being spewed here is out of control. FAU isn't a home game. We don't make money traveling to their ikea stadium in borca. I realize many of you would defend anything the admin does but that is insane. We should not be traveling to Toledo or Arkansas state or fau. Period. Honestly we shouldn't even be playing teams like that. Those games provide no benefit to us. We get no credit for beating them and those teams are good enough to beat us if things bounce their way. If you want to play a cupcake play a cupcake. If you want a home and home play a BCS school. Traveling to 20k stadiums in the middle of nowhere to play off brand trash is a joke and hurts our brand. SEC schools don't do it not because of the economics, but because they have self respect and their athletic programs aren't run by a bunch of 12 year olds with access to twitter.
 
hcanes100 said:
Havanacane said:
Probably already been covered that they are working on opening game in 2018 in Dallas versus LSU. Didn't know if miami confirmed if it was happening or not but my buddy knows a guy who works for LSU and he said it was a done deal. Tifwiw.
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i'll be there, health willing. We might be decent again by then.
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Texcane ruined that smiling-smoker emogee forever
 
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Tad Footeball said:
calinative umstudent said:
Tad Footeball said:
calinative umstudent said:
I really still can't believe we have a game scheduled AT Toledo. Or have ever scheduled a game to be played AT Toledo. Our schedule for 2016, 17, and 18 is weak.
IMO we need to take Toledo off 2017 and 2018 and Arkansas St off 2017. Schedule a real non-conference home-away series for 2016 and 2017 (home 2016 because we also play at ND, away 2017), play LSU 2018, maybe try to get the Rutgers home game swapped to 2018.
What's up with us scheduling weak teams to play on the road against? **** 2015 we are scheduled to play at FAU and at Cincinnati. That is just bad scheduling in my opinion. We should only have road non-conference games when it is a power 5 conference team. Maybe it's just me though...
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What's the drawback to scheduling like the $EC though? If we win the ACC those years we're probably getting into the Playoff. If not, it's not like the ACC runner-up is getting in unless they expand it to 8 teams by then. I'm obviously for a quality schedule as a fan but not when other conferences don't and not only aren't penalized but are rewarded.
Click to expand...

SEC conference teams do have a quality schedule. First of all they already "have tougher conference games" so they have the ability to schedule weaker teams outer conference, while still maintaining the perception they have a difficult schedule. Even if they don't really, all that matters is what the selection committee believes. And regardless, we shouldn't be scheduling home-away series with bad teams.
Some SEC future schedules.
1) LSU: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/lsu-tigers.php ; They have Syracuse, Penn St, ASU, Wisconsin, UCLA, and Okalahoma, and now us on their future schedule, and when they aren't playing those teams, all their other games are at home. They really do challenge themselves.
2) Arkansas: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/arkansas-razorbacks.php ; they play Texas Tech, TCU, Michigan, Texas. But again they schedule the rest at home.
3) Tennessee: http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/sec/tennessee-volunteers.php ; who play Oklahoma, Vtech, USC, Nebraska, Connecticut.
4) Yearly games like UGA vs GTech, Kentucky vs Louisville, South Carolina vs Clemson, UF vs FSU.
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I'm not going to get into the myth of the $EC conference schedule but of those future non-conf games you
cited- how many are truly on the road? Don't count fake "neutral" site games or those basically mandated in-state rivalry games. I'm personally going by their history as a whole as being chickensh!t in scheduling non-conf road games.
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Huge overstatement. LSU and UT have historically been completely unafraid to schedule tough out of conference opponents. And UGA has scheduled some good ones as well.
 
calinative umstudent said:
I really still can't believe we have a game scheduled AT Toledo. Or have ever scheduled a game to be played AT Toledo. Our schedule for 2016, 17, and 18 is weak.
IMO we need to take Toledo off 2017 and 2018 and Arkansas St off 2017. Schedule a real non-conference home-away series for 2016 and 2017 (home 2016 because we also play at ND, away 2017), play LSU 2018, maybe try to get the Rutgers home game swapped to 2018.
What's up with us scheduling weak teams to play on the road against? **** 2015 we are scheduled to play at FAU and at Cincinnati. That is just bad scheduling in my opinion. We should only have road non-conference games when it is a power 5 conference team. Maybe it's just me though...
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Cincy isn't a bad team, but overall I agree with you, just silly to play @Toledo. Makes no sense.
 
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I am hopeful this game happens. Wish it would be a home and home though. The last time I saw Miami in Tiger Stadium was 1988 in a monsoon. We got our asses handed to us. We had to return the favor in '05. This would be a great matchup in JerryWorld. I've always loved the Miami attitude. Good luck this season.
 
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