Why don't we schedule a game against LSU?

We should play a SEC school every year (outside of you know who). It's obvious that the SEC gets more props for "tougher" schedules. I like the idea of whooping the neighbors to get respect. I could easily see an ACC school getting the snub for the BCS game because of what the nation perceives to be weak conference. Besides, there are so many alumni from SEC schools in Atlanta, it'd be great to shut them up. My Auburn friends think Tech football is for real. Aladamnbama, Florida, and Tenn. friends, not so much. They're the dumbest friends I have.
 
GTKyle said:
I'd rather see LSU than gardner-webb, wouldn't you?

And PJ is here to put butts in the seats, first and foremost, then win.
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I want to play LSU in January. I don't want to see LSU on GT's schedule. Let's try to get to a BCS game before we try to add LSU to the mix.
 
samsgt02 said:
We should play a SEC school every year (outside of you know who). It's obvious that the SEC gets more props for "tougher" schedules. quote]
SEC gets credit for a tough conference schedule. If we had more teams to win 10-11 games, we'd get similar respect in a few years.
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gsu_paintballer said:
Mr. Ro-Mega-Jacket, we must first see how we perform this triple option business. THEN, Mr. Ro-Mega-Jacket, we can schedule some big boys and maybe get our asses kicked a few times.

THEN, Mr. Ro-Mega-Jacket, when we have become a national perennial powerhouse...we will win them all. We will leave the ACC. We will ONLY schedule teams from the preseason top 25. We will win them all.

That, Mr. Ro-Mega-Jacket, is how it will be. The time will come grasshoppah. Be patient.
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grasshoppah to paintballer:
if that post didn't set well, I know this next one won't.
Not only would I like to see us schedule more SEC teams, I'd like to see us up against some others too. Texas, USC, OSU, PSU for a few.
Not saying all of these every season but I would like to see us playing Tenn, ALA, Fla more than here of late.
If we play the powerhouse schools and get beaten, so be it. I detest us playing some of these others that we have coming up now. About all I can see they are good for is getting our players injured.
It's bad enough to be beaten by UGA, much less to have to hear about our schedule comparisons from UGA fans. We've been in Div 1-A football long enough that we should be able to play with any of them.
I understand all about a new coach and a new offense and and and, but I for one had rather go to Grant field and see us beat LSU than play against Furman or Elon or JSU or ..............
 
Once CPJ gets his system in place me thinks that many teams won't want to schedule us, reason being is it's a wasted week for them because they have to train their defense to stop our offense. Many coaches are not going to want to do that.

That being said we should rotate, bama, awebern, orange lickers, and then a big ten team. put one easy team in there and let's play big boy ball.
 
romegajacket said:
I understand all about a new coach and a new offense and and and, but I for one had rather go to Grant field and see us beat LSU than play against Furman or Elon or JSU or ..............
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Call me a pessimist if you want to (I'm typically more of a realist than pessimist) but the question as I see it is would you rather go to Grant Field on August 28th and see us get trounced by LSU or trounce JSU?

Keep in mind you understand all about a new coach and a new offense and and and...

Not saying I expect that this will be the trend going forward, but I'm not expecting to see a team that could compete with LSU right out of the gate. Sure these games were scheduled (with one exception) prior to the new coach new offense etc, but I think we should be thankful for them this year.

In future years (once we get adjusted to the new system), I couldn't agree more. Bring 'em on. But I fear Mover may be right. Let's just hope coaching pride comes into play and they want to prove they can stop the juggernaut.
 
ASimPerson said:
LSU is actually a bad example here because they have a stupidly easy OOC schedule. There are top tier programs that have good schedules, though.
  • Southern Cal plays @Virginia, Ohio State, and Notre Dame this year.
  • Tennessee has shown in recent years it's one of the few SEC teams willing to travel. They concluded their home-and-home with Cal last year and will play @UCLA this year.
  • Georgia is actually bothering to travel for an OCC game (first time since 1965) this year with a contest @Arizona State.
  • While Colorado is not "top tier", they're not a cupcake either, and they have FSU and West Virginia on their schedule this year.
  • Speaking of WVU, they play @Auburn.
While these are probably the cream of the crop of OOC scheduling this year, LSU's OOC is still way below average and easily the worst OOC schedule of any SEC team this year.
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Our OOC this season very comparable to those with a top SEC team U[sic]GA(every year) and a middle of the road SEC team Mississippi State(and as someone else mentioned we have similar teams lined up in the future). We do NOT need to go out and schedule another top SEC team. To do so would be shooting ourselves in the foot...you can talk about how SEC teams get credit for their tough schedule, but that credit doesn't amount to crap when a team like Ohio State wins more games than them. Sure, it helped LSU and Florida leapfrog a team or two...but they won 11 games each, I believe. Let's get to the point where we win 11 games and get denied a NC berth, then we can talk about improving our already good OOC schedule.
 
GTKyle said:
Can't DRad pull some strings? Is it us or them? Are we both just booked? I can't believe this hasn't happened yet. I understand neither team wanting to risk a loss, but come on...

A home season opener against LSU would be just as electric as ND in 06 IMO.
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we dont have the money to do that. we need a home game with a team that doesnt demand a huge payout, not a road game that costs us $$
 
BuzzCzar said:
we dont have the money to do that. we need a home game with a team that doesnt demand a huge payout, not a road game that costs us $$
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BuzzCzar,
you've brought up an interesting outlook here. Could you expand on this some? I'd be interested in some details on how this works.
Thank you for your post.
 
romegajacket said:
BuzzCzar,
you've brought up an interesting outlook here. Could you expand on this some? I'd be interested in some details on how this works.
Thank you for your post.
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teams like UCF would pay teams to go on the road and play at ND, for example, as a way to get exposure. its like buying ad space in the landscape of sports broadcasting. So, at times we could be getting paid to beat up that crappy team, or that not-really-so-much-worse team that you are afraid to play in case they land the upset.

Think about the simple issue of tickets. if we played at LSU we would want a sizeable ticket allocation, but LSU would rather sell the tickets themselves so its better for them to get EWBumble State to come, give them 40 tickets for their 100 alumni and not have to give up 5000 seats to the opponent. and guess what, the one mega-rich WEBumble alum is paying $300,000 to go play at LSU so they can get on TV. Tech doesnt want to pay anything. Tech wants a home game too. Tech wants as many tickets as possible to try to sell. Tech wouldnt mind getting paid, or not paying much.
 
I don't want to play LSU because their fans are horrible. The toothless dregs of the swamplands.

I wouldn't mind playing Tulane and take a road trip to Nawlins. though.
 
BuzzCzar said:
teams like UCF would pay teams to go on the road and play at ND, for example, as a way to get exposure. its like buying ad space in the landscape of sports broadcasting. So, at times we could be getting paid to beat up that crappy team, or that not-really-so-much-worse team that you are afraid to play in case they land the upset.

Think about the simple issue of tickets. if we played at LSU we would want a sizeable ticket allocation, but LSU would rather sell the tickets themselves so its better for them to get EWBumble State to come, give them 40 tickets for their 100 alumni and not have to give up 5000 seats to the opponent. and guess what, the one mega-rich WEBumble alum is paying $300,000 to go play at LSU so they can get on TV. Tech doesnt want to pay anything. Tech wants a home game too. Tech wants as many tickets as possible to try to sell. Tech wouldnt mind getting paid, or not paying much.
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Do you have any links on this? I was always under the impression that the home team paid the visiting team to come. Or is that just in basketball?
 
That's the way it works in football as well. We pay teams like Jax State and such so we don't have to make return trips.

I've never heard of a visiting team paying money for the privilege of playing on the road somewhere. Smaller programs usually use this "guarantee" money to fund their entire athletic departments, so paying to go on the road and make no money at all makes no sense.
 
BuzzCzar said:
teams like UCF would pay teams to go on the road and play at ND, for example, as a way to get exposure. its like buying ad space in the landscape of sports broadcasting. So, at times we could be getting paid to beat up that crappy team, or that not-really-so-much-worse team that you are afraid to play in case they land the upset.

Think about the simple issue of tickets. if we played at LSU we would want a sizeable ticket allocation, but LSU would rather sell the tickets themselves so its better for them to get EWBumble State to come, give them 40 tickets for their 100 alumni and not have to give up 5000 seats to the opponent. and guess what, the one mega-rich WEBumble alum is paying $300,000 to go play at LSU so they can get on TV. Tech doesnt want to pay anything. Tech wants a home game too. Tech wants as many tickets as possible to try to sell. Tech wouldnt mind getting paid, or not paying much.
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BuzzCzar - how often are teams PAYING to go to another school? As pointed out earlier, the vistor gets PAID to go not vice versa...
 
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