Hypothetical BYU scheduling as an independent

[beelzebabette]

Teams I'd love to see BYU schedule and that are entirely within the realm of possible:

Maryland
Navy
Duke
UNC
NC State
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Marshall
Rutgers
Army
Cincinnati
Miami OH

I'd be very happy if we could schedule half of those teams for home/away games over the next five years.

Pure speculation, but I think BYU intentionally only scheduled one east-coast game each year. That's a lot of travel.

EDIT: I'm not supposing you're suggesting we schedule all those in the same year.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Teams I'd love to see BYU schedule and that are entirely within the realm of possible:

Maryland
Navy
Duke
UNC
NC State
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Marshall
Rutgers
Army
Cincinnati
Miami OH

I'd be very happy if we could schedule half of those teams for home/away games over the next five years.

Since I was a kid I have always wanted to see us play Michigan State. I have no idea why, but I always thought that would be really cool.

[pellegrino]

Teams I'd love to see BYU schedule and that are entirely within the realm of possible:

Maryland
Navy
Duke
UNC
NC State
Wake Forest
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Marshall
Rutgers
Army
Cincinnati
Miami OH

I'd be very happy if we could schedule half of those teams for home/away games over the next five years.

[LiveCoug]

Why on earth would Okie STate, UCLA, BC and Purdue play us in November? Someone needs a better answer than ESPN.

That was just a list of teams, not necessarily the order we would play them...

It is unlikely, but that's what it would take for me to be excited.

[creekster]

Why on earth would Okie STate, UCLA, BC and Purdue play us in November? Someone needs a better answer than ESPN.

who do we play in November now? Utah is the only decent opponent, typically. That will still be true.

[SloanHater]

I'm pumped to finally get Idaho on the schedule and New Mexico State. Hopefully we can get home/home series.

Sounds like your going to get 2 for 1s!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

If our yearly schedule looks something like this as an Independent, then I will be a fan:

USU
UU
UNR
Fresno
NMSU
ND
Army
Navy
Oklahoma State
UCLA
Boston College
Purdue


Add to that a tie in with the Holiday Bowl and a BCS game chance, I could dig that.


I'm scared.

Why on earth would Okie STate, UCLA, BC and Purdue play us in November? Someone needs a better answer than ESPN.

[ERCougar]

Not exactly overwhelming evidence to warrant a sticky.


Didn't ignore--I discounted. ND can get just about any school to work a game into their schedule at ND's convenience. I don't think it gets significantly easier for BYU suddenly, due to the need to fill an entire schedule.

FTR, I'd rather play Wyoming than Duke. I will, however, concede that there are people out there that would like to play Hawaii. From a football perspective, though, that's not a great pickup.

Duke(and maryland) are examples of what types of teams we could schedule. Take equivalent regional teams as substitutes.

And remember...this is navy. There's no reason to assume we couldn't do better

[LiveCoug]

Yeah CJF I'm inclined to agree that's a pretty trollish comment - 2 and 1s with FSU I could see, giving Provo the WAC hoops tournament for five years seems unlikely.

On the other hand - this would be HUGE for the WAC and they might just be desperate enough to make concessions. We'll see.

I could see BYU trying to get the WAC tourny in SLC at the ESA

[LiveCoug]

If our yearly schedule looks something like this as an Independent, then I will be a fan:

USU
UU
UNR
Fresno
NMSU
ND
Army
Navy
Oklahoma State
UCLA
Boston College
Purdue


Add to that a tie in with the Holiday Bowl and a BCS game chance, I could dig that.


I'm scared.

[oxcoug]

Did you guys see that the Trib just posted an article confirming all the talk??

I did here:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars...rence.html.csp

"Done deal" it says - but it doesn't actually name any sources.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I'm pumped to finally get Idaho on the schedule and New Mexico State. Hopefully we can get home/home series.

[ERCougar]

Link

And you were touting that all morning as a slam dunk?

Link? I said it was a decent answer to the scheduling
questions. The rest of the advantages make it a slam dunk.

[Green Monstah]

Did you guys see that the Trib just posted an article confirming all the talk??

[oxcoug]

Sounds like the trolling has started.

Yeah CJF I'm inclined to agree that's a pretty trollish comment - 2 and 1s with FSU I could see, giving Provo the WAC hoops tournament for five years seems unlikely.

On the other hand - this would be HUGE for the WAC and they might just be desperate enough to make concessions. We'll see.