Sometimes, it's the mental fatigue more so than physical. It's hard to get up emotionally for every game when theres that many in a short period of time. Ive thought weve looked flat the last couple of games. Plus, I think one of our guys was battling illness. So there's that too.
Then play them in their house. An away loss at Kentucky is worth more than a home win versus Mississippi Valley. I'd rather have 4 road games against high-major schools than play bottom of the barrel schools at home. If you split those road games vs high majors, that likely puts you at 2-2 in Quad 1 games which would look great on our resume. A Quad 1 road game just needs to ge top 75. At our house they have to be top 30. It's almost more beneficial to be on the road because there's more room for error. Neutral site opponents need to be top 50 which is why so many schools do those tournaments. There's a ton of room for error. You just need to go .500.
I love Jared’s boardroom skills. Thank you again.
Now go get the marketing genius on staff and please avoid any friends or kin of Nico Harrison. I don’t want to move to the WAC in the middle of the night.
GMG
So watching BIG WEST podcast today and and a guest speaker brought up the point that so far the PAC has repeated their previous mistake of being a west coast only conference, this time with schools with far less media value that those who left for the BIG 10 and ACC. Being locked into the western time zone severely limits both the PAC and MWC attractiveness to potential media partners. He stated that getting into Texas was a must for both conferences [UTEP doesn't count because of its isolation ] and that their targets should be UTSA ,Texas State , North Texas , and that it was a must for them to be in Northern Texas because of the huge market.The bottom line was that for either conference to survive they must get in other time zones adding football only schools if necessary as the MWC did with NIU. I am just the messenger but don't see how UTSA and UNT can come up with the $25 million AAC buyout.
The problem is and should be obvious, good teams seldom schedule oc away games. Without a name like Memphis and/or money like Memphis, scheduling upper tier or even pier schools to games in Denton is very difficult.
In fact, NT has been so good lately, that it is hard to even get decent away oc games.
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