Non-Conference Scheduling rumors

[OrangeUte]

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BYU fans will be subject to a nice treat at home in 2013... other than that, each year looks like a very brutal road schedule for the next few years.

[TripletDaddy]

Like a lot of things football, Utah took a model pioneered by BYU and made it better. BYU's orignial model was to play 12 bad or terrible teams, including a .500 team in a no account bowl. We've learned a lot in the past 25 years, like how to value winning week after week against bad and terrible teams.

Then why are your temples throbbing, amigo? This mid-major model is nothing new. As you have stated, BYU has used it, Utah has used it. Hawaii used it. Boise uses it.

Even the fear of so many Friday night games is puzzling. Does this mean that some fans here will not attend the games simply because they are on Friday, not Saturday? Will you have less fun at the games? Will you not watch as many games on TV? It is all a big to-do over very little.

As IndyCoug wisely admonished everyone...chillax.

This upcoming season, BYU will be on national TV more than probably any other season in BYU's history, it will be making more money that it has ever made in its history, it will be playing teams from the B12, P10, and SEC, and it will swap MWC cellar dwellars for WAC cellar dwellars. WTF is everyone on about?

[SeattleUte]

Then why are your temples throbbing, amigo? This mid-major model is nothing new. As you have stated, BYU has used it, Utah has used it. Hawaii used it. Boise uses it.

Even the fear of so many Friday night games is puzzling. Does this mean that some fans here will not attend the games simply because they are on Friday, not Saturday? Will you have less fun at the games? Will you not watch as many games on TV? It is all a big to-do over very little.

As IndyCoug wisely admonished everyone...chillax.

This upcoming season, BYU will be on national TV more than probably any other season in BYU's history, it will be making more money that it has ever made in its history, it will be playing teams from the B12, P10, and SEC, and it will swap MWC cellar dwellars for WAC cellar dwellars. WTF is everyone on about?

We will know this experiment worked for BYU when it starts regularly playing BCS teams at home, regularly recruiting like a BCS school (2010's class is a good model), and qualifies for a BCS bowl. My pont is it's no big achievement to schedule yourself as early season one-off road games with the big teams. Even Utah State can do and does that. Any lame program can fill its schedule with road games against Texas, Nebraska, etc.

[RC Vikings]

It's a shame that Idaho St. didn't play hardball and get the Cougs in Pocatello for the game.

Thirteen thousand in the Mini Dome would have rocked that place.

[byu71]

Well, looking at the home schedule I hope there are good enough BYU fans who love to go to games where we are pretty assured of winning and don't care about a good game. If that is the case, then I should be able to sell my tickets again and wait for a better schedule.

It is not that I am not a big fan, it is just $1,000 means a lot more to me now than it used to.

[DapperDan]

Well, looking at the home schedule I hope there are good enough BYU fans who love to go to games where we are pretty assured of winning and don't care about a good game. If that is the case, then I should be able to sell my tickets again and wait for a better schedule.

It is not that I am not a big fan, it is just $1,000 means a lot more to me now than it used to.

I've been told that real fans will really enjoy watching our young bench warmers get lots of experience in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

[Indy Coug]

I've been told that real fans will really enjoy watching our young bench warmers get lots of experience in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Isn't that what made 1980 and 1983 so much fun?

[SloanHater]

There is something sad and desperate about this thread. I feel oppressed just to see the title. Then to see 3D citng Boise State as a model for anything makes my temples throb.

Why wouldn't you copy boise's model of neutral field games, tough road games, and forgettable Octobers and Novembers? They're now one step away from an automatic qualifying conference.

[byu71]

I've been told that real fans will really enjoy watching our young bench warmers get lots of experience in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

I guess I am not a real fan, sadly. I will be just as happy watching those young guys develop while sitting on my fat butt and watching the TV. Even more so knowing it isn't costing me anything.

[BlueHair]

I guess I am not a real fan, sadly. I will be just as happy watching those young guys develop while sitting on my fat butt and watching the TV. Even more so knowing it isn't costing me anything.

You also won't have to yell, "Down in front!" to all the youngsters standing up in front of you at the stadium.

[Top Ute]

Utah basically followed the same model....weak schedule, mix in a good game, run the table.

I'm not suggesting that boise is the template for byu's program, I'm responding to this angst about the upcoming schedule. People need to decide what they want...do they want to go to a bcs bowl? If so, then next seasons schedule is a perfect way to do that. Why all the gloom?

You face three teams that played in bowls in 2010. That is beyond weak, and something Utah's 2004 and 2008 teams never came close to equalling.

[Top Ute]

Then why are your temples throbbing, amigo? This mid-major model is nothing new. As you have stated, BYU has used it, Utah has used it. Hawaii used it. Boise uses it.

Even the fear of so many Friday night games is puzzling. Does this mean that some fans here will not attend the games simply because they are on Friday, not Saturday? Will you have less fun at the games? Will you not watch as many games on TV? It is all a big to-do over very little.

As IndyCoug wisely admonished everyone...chillax.

This upcoming season, BYU will be on national TV more than probably any other season in BYU's history, it will be making more money that it has ever made in its history, it will be playing teams from the B12, P10, and SEC, and it will swap MWC cellar dwellars for WAC cellar dwellars as well as cellar-dweallars from the Big 12 and SEC. WTF is everyone on about?

Fixed.

[TripletDaddy]

You face three teams that played in bowls in 2010. That is beyond weak, and something Utah's 2004 and 2008 teams never came close to equalling.

So you are saying that in Utah's best two seasons the Utes don't come close to equaling BYU. I agree.

[Surfah]

So you are saying that in Utah's best two seasons the Utes don't come close to equaling BYU. I agree.

[TheBYUGuy]

You face three teams that played in bowls in 2010. That is beyond weak, and something Utah's 2004 and 2008 teams never came close to equalling.

Errrrrrrrrrrr...

Utah's 2004 team played 2 teams that went to bowls in 2003: CSU and New Mexico (who lost by 41 points in their bowl).

Also, Utah's 2004 out-of-conference schedule was 11-37 in 2003.

Ouch(!) for whatever point you were trying to make.