The proposal will be up for approval in April. I'm sure most coaches are already in preliminary talks with teams that have the same open date as them, because it is hard to find a lot of teams who have the same open date. Which is the reason CTT wants an extra WEEK of the season to come with the extra game, but I guess that makes too much sense for the NCAA. I'm guessing Les Miles is already in talks with other schools with the same open date as well.
Fresno St. wanted to play the weekend before UGA. Which would mean we would play 8 games in a row to end the season including LSU, Georgia and Alabama. They could not play us on the open date that we scheduled Western Kentucky on. The article if very misleading. Also, we are already playing a team from another BCS conferance next year (Georgia Tech). Do we really need two?
We're supposed to let Fresno St. determine when to play OUR home game?? Wow, great reporting there "Matt Hayes"...you really uncovered something there. :dis: :dis:
That article did seem to conveniently (or more likely because of lack of homework) leave out what that would have done to Auburn's schedule. Ironically, the media took the opposite approach with lack of homework when talking about Virginia Tech. Supposedly VT backed out of playing LSU because they had USC on the schedule and didn't want to play LSU and USC in back to back weeks. GUESS WHAT, VT backed out on us BEFORE they scheduled USC. But we are supposed to feel sorry for poor VT that would have had to play two hard games two weeks in a row. Maybe they should try to come play in the SEC sometime.
If Fresno St. wants to schedule a home game with you all after last year....you wouldn't take it? Got :crystal:?
It really is tough agreeing with Tuberville. OK, that's two things: 1) scheduling; 2) anyone with a lick of sense wants out of Oxford...
Auburn ended with the 5th toughest schedule last year...nothing to debate there. And no, Fresno St. is not going to determine our schedule. LSU wouldn't have any of that either. It's all about money...
This really depends on how you define schedule strength. If you use the old BCS SOS, AU finished further down the list because of the Citadel game. This SOS is important because it tracks how the computers vote quite well, expecially for undefeated teams. So for about $100M more than you actually spent (although at the time AU probably thought it would take a lot more than that), you probably could have kept Bowling Green on your schedule. If you would have done it, then most likely you would have made the championship game. Ok would have found it difficult to schedule a team better than BG in terms of SOS. Without doing so, AU would have had the better SOS and you wouldn't have had the albatross of you OOC schedule. I agree.