untjim1995

I picked us to win 2 games this year, at home against BC and at UTSA. But, I'm going to swap out the win @UTSA with a win at Rice. Rice looks bad--I am glad this game is early in the season and that we are relatively healthy right now. I see us winning a shootout, 37-35.

THIS is a great win for us this year!! As Ive said, the scoreboard this year doesn't matter nearly as much as the Recruiting wins we get during the weeks ahead!! Great job, staff!!

The schedule is just a reality we have to accept going forward, unless the university pays to buyout contracts and pay for other opponents to get here. For a place that doesn't have that kind of funds, that easy million dollar check isn't going away. It's the buying out of FCS games that would change things here. The effects of RV's laziness at scheduling to a brand new stadium near DFW are going to be felt for years to come if nothing changes.

We were always going to be a 1-2 win team this season. Losing to Florida while getting a million dollars doesn't change that. Littrell, Harrell, and Fine are learning on the fly, with returning players who don't fit his system at all. Plus, he has had to already run off several scholarship guys who showed they'll quit on the university in a heartbeat. The rebuild here is colossal in its enormity. It's hard to accept as fans, but it's why watching the scoreboard this year isnt the way to gauge success here--it's ALL about the results we see in recruiting, meaning the biggest wins this year will be in the locker rooms and living rooms across the state, not on the field.

Earlier this year, I went thru two different G5 rankings to assess the best G5 conferences, based on overall average of the rankings of the teams in each league. The SBC was last, followed by CUSA, then the MAC. So far, this year, Marshall got pole axed by Akron, UTEP and Rice have been crushed by Army, USM got beat by Troy, and FIU lost to the team that many figured was one of the three worst in the country, UMass. From what I've seen so far, La Tech should walk away with CUSA West, just because the other teams aren't very good in the division, although USM is better than they showed tonight. And I guess MUTS and WKU are the teams to beat out East. But overall, the conference seems way down compared to seasons past.

This was a really bad day. Army beating anyone by 52 points is not a real good sign for your conference, as well as FIU losing to a team that many believed were as bad as us in the early preseason polls. The conference is Just very down right now...

They would finish in the top half or higher in the Big XII right now...

NDSU does it again--beats Iowa 23-21

I'm interested in seeing if OU can give tOSU a game tonight in Norman.

Mizzou is probably the easiest opponent on this list.

It's also Pay Day...

TBH, Arkansas State, ULL, and Texas State would be fine OOC opponents over the FCS spares...but again, that requires us to have 5 home games in some seasons if we are still playing body bag games. Its all a moot point, though, if the FCS contracts cannot be broken without huge costs.

Even if it's that scenario, where do you think Miami gets more recruits from, DFW or Podunk Boone, NC?

I've got no problem with SBC West teams...

SMU, TCU, and Baylor have $$$$. We don't--we have higher students/alums than they do, though. Who is going to come watch us play Butt Cookman besides the diehards here? My point is that we need money and we need wins over teams that generic fans care about. You can argue the merits of caring about other G5s like SMU and Army, but absolutely no one cares about FCS schools around here, except for a few who have friends at SFA or SHSU. Ironically, I'm glad we had Butt Cookman on our schedule this year--it's given our team and fans a chance to enjoy a win of some sort. But if that game is played in front of 16k, that means almost 15k seats were empty. So, we won a game on the scoreboard, but basically that game cost us a lot of money..:

For a Friday night game, UTSA has a really nice crowd tonight at the Alamodome for Arizona State. BTW. ASU probably had 30 points at this point in the game last week against Texas Tech's _efense...

Your original question was if Wren Baker scheduled multiple FCS opponents per year. That's absurd to even contemplate. then you changed the argument back to one FCS game per year,, which I don't think is smart at all for a team that needs support. Getting 16k for a FCS opponent at a 30k stadium isn't good or really helpful. Boise could do it because they had the civic support and very little competition for entertainment dollars. Being in Denton and in DFW, we literally don't share any of that in common.

If he does something that stupid, you won't need a banner to run him off...

RV ran the dept and made the schedule, not the head coach. If DMac convinced RV of this strategy, it really just confirms that neither understood what we need to do here to get people to support the program.

FIU is about to get some serious FCS teams from anywhere but Florida on their future schedules...

I agree, but then that delivers the 5 game home schedule here with the bodybag game on the road every season. I don't have a problem with this at all, ESPECIALLY if we keep playing SMU every year

I love this look...would like it even more if the green matched, but that's another subject

In other news, we need oxygen to breathe...

It just stinks that the schedule is that set in stone for OOC that you are probably stuck with FCS games here. I know Army is a team that brings in some fans, but I just think it would be cool if we weren't playing them as long as we are. Not much we can do about it now, but if you keep the SMU series, plus bodybag and FCS spare, it would be really nice to have that last OOC game be rotating between several other programs, not just one. I know Memphis replaces Army in the early 20's sometime, which is a good series to have scheduled. I just would have like the Army series to have been home-and-home for two years, then have the flexibility to get another solid OOC name to play...

So did Chris Simms afterwards--he said they couldn't stop him.