Schools with a harder OOC schedule than Tech?

andrew said:
This isn't talked about enough and is really hurting CGC so far in my opinion. It is ridiculous to have such a strong OOC schedule when we are trying to become relevant again. We need to replace games like UCF and Ole Miss with smaller schools like The Citadel and Northern Illinois. I know they aren't nearly as interesting to play but the guaranteed wins are simply worth the tradeoff for our program at this point in time.

Actually, if you want interesting OOC matchups, why not schedule Temple? I know it's no trip to The Grove, but it's always a good storyline to see a coach play his old school, and again, we could use some easier matchups to get us back into a bowl.
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The very idea of replacing better opponents with öööötier opponents for illusions sake is pitiful. Nobody gives a crap about going to the Timbuktu Bowl just for the sake of going Bowling. As a fan, I don't consider that a value added experience.
 
Vespidie said:
The very idea of replacing better opponents with öööötier opponents for illusions sake is pitiful. Nobody gives a crap about going to the Timbuktu Bowl just for the sake of going Bowling. As a fan, I don't consider that a value added experience.
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I would love to just not be below the bar of "bowl participant" even if it's just the Fartsniffer's bowl in Shreveport. It's really embarrassing to be in the P5 and not get to 6 wins counting 1 FCS and 1 G5.
 
Rather have a hard schedule than trying to explain getting rolled by: <insert cardinal direction> <insert state> university regularly.
 
Vespidie said:
The very idea of replacing better opponents with öööötier opponents for illusions sake is pitiful. Nobody gives a crap about going to the Timbuktu Bowl just for the sake of going Bowling. As a fan, I don't consider that a value added experience.
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As a sustained strategy I agree but it can have some short term benefits with the right timing. Like as an example, if we fired Collins last year this would be a really rough OOC schedule to bring a new coach into that is trying to restore optimism and momentum in the fanbase and recruiting. Generally no one cares about a nowhere bowl, but a new coach looks better to recruits with a year one 7-6 than a 4-8 regardless of opponent.
 
I've always been of the opinion that yearly games against Clemson and UGA put us behind the 8-ball as it pertains to scheduling. My opinion is that we should consider balancing the rest of our OOC schedule to account for this.

Of course, this is my long-term opinion. If you can't win your cupcake games, it doesn't really matter either way.
 
Techfan02 said:
But when they get vandy kent state samford you can't tell me there isn't bias
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We get a bunch of dog öööö teams every year; we still can’t beat them. We are a dog öööö team like vandy or Kent to be honest; dawgs roll us all
 
GTROY said:
I've always been of the opinion that yearly games against Clemson and UGA put us behind the 8-ball as it pertains to scheduling. My opinion is that we should consider balancing the rest of our OOC schedule to account for this.

Of course, this is my long-term opinion. If you can't win your cupcake games, it doesn't really matter either way.
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UGA and Clemson are the primary 2 games that make our schedule attractive to fans buying our product
 
What people forget about our schedule is that we’re now at the level where the good teams pay us to come lose at their stadium. We’re transitioning towards 4 home game seasons and games that don’t even get Vegas odds.
 
gtphd said:
What people forget about our schedule is that we’re now at the level where the good teams pay us to come lose at their stadium. We’re transitioning towards 4 home game seasons and games that don’t even get Vegas odds.
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We have to make up for the lost ticket revenue and cascading effect of significantly diminishing interest somehow. Wouldn’t we be a lot better off going to Tuscaloosa to get pummeled by Alabama every year for $1M than getting about $600k at the gate to watch East Western Northern Southern Mich and let them have a party in the southeast corner of our stadium? It can’t be that expensive to bus 100 players plus staff & support 200 miles to Tuscaloosa and put them up over night.

We’re gonna need to think of alternatives to stay afloat & not dig the next guy a humongous hole until someone in GT’s leadership understands we’ve suffered enough and has the balls/desire to make the call.
 
The problem with Tech leadership is that they’re split between being like Stanford and trying to compete in sports and academics or being like MIT and investing in academics only.

That lack of decisiveness makes us an “inbetweener” and leads to not being as good at either.

So we have 3 win football teams and continue to slip down the USNWR rankings.
 
andrew said:
This isn't talked about enough and is really hurting CGC so far in my opinion. It is ridiculous to have such a strong OOC schedule when we are trying to become relevant again. We need to replace games like UCF and Ole Miss with smaller schools like The Citadel and Northern Illinois. I know they aren't nearly as interesting to play but the guaranteed wins are simply worth the tradeoff for our program at this point in time.

Actually, if you want interesting OOC matchups, why not schedule Temple? I know it's no trip to The Grove, but it's always a good storyline to see a coach play his old school, and again, we could use some easier matchups to get us back into a bowl.
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This is a bad take, like a lot of takes in this thread.

I can't even follow the schizophrenia of our fans at this point. Not specifically accusing you, but it's interesting how the same posters who cry about how ACC opponents are uninteresting also think we should replace UCF and Ole Miss with Wofford and Presbyterian.

Also, another poster responded to you with a gif... you do realize we already played at Temple the year after Collins left and got our asses handed to us in Philadelphia?

Edit - I'm an idiot. Bravo andrew
 
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The Champ said:
We get a bunch of dog öööö teams every year; we still can’t beat them. We are a dog öööö team like vandy or Kent to be honest; dawgs roll us all
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Yeah. We're a ways away from bitching about scheduling. Let's not get our öööö pushed in by Boston College and then I'll care about the marginal effects of playing Clemson every year.
 
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