Believe me...we know. They beat us the last time we played them...Hallman era, I believe...maybe '94?
I live in Plano, and we pretty much HATE Southlake Carroll here. I'm interested to see if they will still be as successful now that Dodge has left. As an aside on that, Dodge's son is a senior QB for Southlake Carroll this year. He was an early verbal to TEXAS, but he de-committed and will play ball for his daddy at UNT. That's interesting. Dodge also coached Missouri starting QB Chase Daniel.
I'm sorry, does no one see the hole this is opening in the 2009 schedule? I know there was talk some time back of a home-and-away with some opponent in 2009 and 2010.
What suffering? Fans keep showing up for them and paying their tickets. Fans don't want a nail-biter every game, they want to see some blowouts, too.
This is the whole reason why LSU don't schedule a mid major. That's why we have 8 home games some seasons.
<------- not this fan isn't 1 maybe 2 blowouts a season enough anyway? I think demand for season tickets would be even higher if we brought in big programs like VT this year, on an alternating basis. If you surveyed ticket buying fans if they'd like to be guaranteed to have North Texas and MTSU every year or if they'd like a team like Houston every year and alternate going on the road and playing at home quality teams like VT, ND, A&M, Texas, etc... Well, I'd bet my left nut the majority would take the latter. Even the road trips would be popular with our fans! LSU could charge $5 more a home game if they want I don't think that'd matter. Our athletic program isn't going to go broke alternating 7-8-7-8-7-8 home games. Some big time schools almost always play 7 home games and by some miracle they manage to compete. If we keep the Tulane thing in place then it really shouldn't matter if we go on the road for one more game a season or alternate it with 8 games. Am I being unreasonable? Just b/c the powers at be do it one way doesn't make it the right way, even from a business point of view.
Yes, but we get..or should I say administer...those in our bowl games.:hihi: FWIW, I agree with Red, here. Show me a team that plays a bunch of OOC heavyweights, and I'll show you a team that has a WEAK conference schedule...or a losing record. We don't EVER have a weak conference schedule, and I don't think ANY of us want losing records. These games are useful to us...tuning up, recovering from a tough conference game, getting young players some PT, etc..., and are beneficial to the other team...such as N. Texas.
