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Compare and contrast how FSU and Miami start the year. FSU plays two high school teams and an awful Wake team, all at home, to start the year. They are virtually guaranteed a 3-0 start, as well as diminished injuries. They get to build the hype and confidence of the team and ease guys into the system as they work out the kinks. We, on the other hand, start the year by playing 3/4 games on the road, including opening up with a conference game followed by a non-conference game against a tough opponent on the road. You would think our AD(s) would wake up and realize we're not Miami of old and we should be much more strategic in our scheduling. Additionally, our AD(s) should recognize that noon games don't work in South Florida. We should be doing everything possible to ensure good attendance, including scheduling later games.
 
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I think the ACC determines our conference schedule. We submit our non-conference slate, and then the ACC fills in the blanks.
 
Conference games are generally dictated by TV and the conference scheduling department. The athletic department isn't to blame really. They've actually told ESPN to go bleep themselves the last couple of years. That network wanted the VT game to be played on labor day a couple of times recently.

If you want to blame anyone for today's start then blame Golden. He wanted the early start to get as much time to prepare for Georgia Tech as possible. He apparently fought very hard against people who wanted to make today's game a night game.

There was a blurb in the Miami Herald about what little benefit playing a team like K-State brings. People in the current athletic department won't be doing things like that again. It was early and on FX. Doesn't do alot for the profile.
 
CanesAreAble said:
I think the ACC determines our conference schedule. We submit our non-conference slate, and then the ACC fills in the blanks.
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I didn't realize this. How does FSU have the ability to schedule two high school teams to start the year?
 
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dycane said:
Compare and contrast how FSU and Miami start the year. FSU plays two high school teams and an awful Wake team, all at home, to start the year. They are virtually guaranteed a 3-0 start, as well as diminished injuries. They get to build the hype and confidence of the team and ease guys into the system as they work out the kinks. We, on the other hand, start the year by playing 3/4 games on the road, including opening up with a conference game followed by a non-conference game against a tough opponent on the road. You would think our AD(s) would wake up and realize we're not Miami of old and we should be much more strategic in our scheduling. Additionally, our AD(s) should recognize that noon games don't work in South Florida. We should be doing everything possible to ensure good attendance, including scheduling later games.
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Playing tough teams only makes your team better. It is nice to pad stats but that gives teams a false sense of reality. How many teams have we seen pad their stats just to get their teeth kicked in against good competition?

Teams that are battle testee normally are the ones who go on to win
 
wow... we have sunk this low?

We play Anybody. Anywhere. Any time

thats what made the U great - we are not Florida or FSU
 
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Cityboy4life82 said:
dycane said:
Compare and contrast how FSU and Miami start the year. FSU plays two high school teams and an awful Wake team, all at home, to start the year. They are virtually guaranteed a 3-0 start, as well as diminished injuries. They get to build the hype and confidence of the team and ease guys into the system as they work out the kinks. We, on the other hand, start the year by playing 3/4 games on the road, including opening up with a conference game followed by a non-conference game against a tough opponent on the road. You would think our AD(s) would wake up and realize we're not Miami of old and we should be much more strategic in our scheduling. Additionally, our AD(s) should recognize that noon games don't work in South Florida. We should be doing everything possible to ensure good attendance, including scheduling later games.
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Playing tough teams only makes your team better. It is nice to pad stats but that gives teams a false sense of reality. How many teams have we seen pad their stats just to get their teeth kicked in against good competition?

Teams that are battle testee normally are the ones who go on to win
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I disagree. Look at the top programs in the country. OSU opens up with FOUR ******* home games, all of them non conference opponents. They don't even play back to back road games.

LSU, 3 home games to open the season, all non conference. No back to back road games.

Oregon, 4 home games to open the season, 3 against non conference opponents. One back to back stretch this season on the road. Same with USC and Texas.

Now look at us. 3 of our first 4 on the road, 1 against a top 15 opponent and the other two are conference games. Who the **** came up with that? Same thing in 2010. 3 out of 4 on the road to open the season, one against a top five opponent (OSU), a conference game (Clemson), and a middle of the road opponent that could give us issues (Pitt). Final piece of evidence is 2009, where we opened up with FSU, GT, VT, AND Oklahoma. Luckily we only had to go on the road for two of those games, or else we could have easily been 0-4 to start that season, which probably would have been better in the long run anyways, but I digress.

Point is, that is an outdated formula for success. In neither 2009 or 2010 did we prove we were a stronger team because of our tough schedule, and I have a pretty good feeling the same thing will happen this year. This ain't 1985. We need our AD to step to the plate and start trying to get us a schedule more on par with other big teams around the country.
 
Agree with the OP .However its about money too and if we schedule all home patsies we will have nobody there. Thats why college football is a joke. If you can fill a stadium with 80000 every saturday you will have the money to buy 3 or 4 wins a year.
 
dycane said:
CanesAreAble said:
I think the ACC determines our conference schedule. We submit our non-conference slate, and then the ACC fills in the blanks.
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I didn't realize this. How does FSU have the ability to schedule two high school teams to start the year?
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FSU was scheduled to play WVU instead of Savannah State to open the season, but the 'eers backed out, and (luckily for the Noles) Sav State was one of the only options for a replacement.
 
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Once the playoff scenario gets going, playing the creampuffs will certain be curbed.

I do believe though...playing a creampuff to start the year should be mandatory for Miami.
 
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It's always been like this and it will always be like this.

No one complained about it when we open the season on National TV against Penn St in 01?
No one complained when we play UF game 2 @ the Swamp in 02?
No one complained when we opened against #1 FSU in 1988?

Why? Because we were winning. Winning solves everything.

Bama opened season with Michigan and I don'd thear them b!tching.
Whether we played KState in 2nd game or 10th game it wouldn't matter. We aren't good enough to beat them.
 
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I agree with noon games in south Florida sucking ***. I head it was 100 degrees at No life and everyone was hiding in the pavilion. Too **** hot mane.
 
dycane said:
Compare and contrast how FSU and Miami start the year. FSU plays two high school teams and an awful Wake team, all at home, to start the year. They are virtually guaranteed a 3-0 start, as well as diminished injuries. They get to build the hype and confidence of the team and ease guys into the system as they work out the kinks. We, on the other hand, start the year by playing 3/4 games on the road, including opening up with a conference game followed by a non-conference game against a tough opponent on the road. You would think our AD(s) would wake up and realize we're not Miami of old and we should be much more strategic in our scheduling. Additionally, our AD(s) should recognize that noon games don't work in South Florida. We should be doing everything possible to ensure good attendance, including scheduling later games.
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Look at the schedule of everyone in the top 25. Almost everyone has played at least one, if not 2 tough games so far. You want to become a pussified program like UF and VT? Running and hiding?

And btw, we scheduled BC and BCC, two bad teams. The KSU games were scheduled when they were down and Snyder wasn't there anymore. So no, you can't blame the AD.

Let's act like Canes. I'd rather play a real schedule and suffer the consequences than run and hide like the Gators do.
 
DeadPoets said:
It's always been like this and it will always be like this.

No one complained about it when we open the season on National TV against Penn St in 01?
No one complained when we play UF game 2 @ the Swamp in 02?
No one complained when we opened against #1 FSU in 1988?

Why? Because we were winning. Winning solves everything.

Bama opened season with Michigan and I don'd thear them b!tching.
Whether we played KState in 2nd game or 10th game it wouldn't matter. We aren't good enough to beat them.
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Very well written.
 
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