Let's play "You Are The AD"....

[vhdawg]

Work out a future OOC schedule for MSU through at least 2014. You don't have to be specific, you can say "BCS Team A", "Non-BCS Team A", or "I-AA Team", but you have to specify home or away.

Also, you may reschedule already scheduled games, but you may not cancel them.

Your goal is seven home games a season, which means at least three OOC home games. BCS games must be home-and-home. Non-BCS games may be home-and-home, 2-for-1, 3-for-2, etc., but must include at least one return game. That's just the economics of the game these days.

That said, here's what we currently have scheduled for the future:

<span style="text-decoration:underline">2009</span>
Jackson State (I-AA)
Georgia Tech
Houston
at Middle Tennesse

<span style="text-decoration:underline">2010</span>
Memphis
UAB
at Houston

<span style="text-decoration:underline">2011</span>
at Memphis
at UAB
Tulane

<span style="text-decoration:underline">2012</span>
Louisiana Tech
at Tulane

<span style="text-decoration:underline">2013</span>
Tulane

I'm interested to see what anybody comes up with.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

In years where we have LSU and Bama coming in, if we also have UGA and/or UF coming in I want a I-AA team. If we are in the year like this year with Vandy and UK coming in, I would not have minded one BCS level non-conference game. The I-AA game has its place at the right time, but I don't see the need to consistently spend money to get people to come if we can manage home and homes with decent teams from BCS conferences. I would almost rather watch us on TV against Indiana (for example) than be there in person for SE Louisiana.

 

[vhdawg]

...as reference:

Even-numbered years: Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, at Alabama, at LSU, at Ole Miss
Odd-numbered years: at Auburn, at Kentucky, at Arkansas, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss

2009: Florida, at Vanderbilt
2010: Georgia, at Florida
2011: South Carolina, at Georgia
2012: Tennessee, at South Carolina
2013: Vanderbilt, at Tennessee
and repeat as necessary.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

...as reference:

Even-numbered years: Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, at Alabama, at LSU, at Ole Miss
Odd-numbered years: at Auburn, at Kentucky, at Arkansas, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss

2009: Florida, at Vanderbilt
2010: Georgia, at Florida
2011: South Carolina, at Georgia
2012: Tennessee, at South Carolina
2013: Vanderbilt, at Tennessee
and repeat as necessary.

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2009</span>
Jackson State (I-AA)
Georgia Tech
Houston
at Middle Tennesse
Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, UF
<span style="font-weight: bold;">***The home SEC schedule is brutal with an improving GA Tech program too. I have no problem with a I-AA team here</span>.

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2010</span>
Memphis
UAB
at Houston
Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, UGA
<span style="font-weight: bold;">**I would like to see a BCS home game here so</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ur new coach could build on the excitement a la Sherril vs Texas. But the schedule may force it to be a road game.</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">

2011</span>
at Memphis
at UAB
Tulane
Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, USC
<span style="font-weight: bold;">**Has to be a home game or we will only have five.Can't be Conference USA or we should just join them.Home game with the BCS team we play in 2010 would work, but that forces 2010 to be a road game. I would presume most schools are going to want to get these games in back to back years.</span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2012</span>
Louisiana Tech
at Tulane
Auburn, Kentucky, Arkansas, UT
<span style="font-weight: bold;">** BCS Road Game with home game in 2013</span> <br style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">** Non BCS Home game</span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2013</span>
Tulane
Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, Vandy
<span style="font-weight: bold;">** BCS home game (maybe Big East home and home with Louisville?? ACC home and home with almost any of them.)</span> <br style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">** Non BCS home game (small school, like Sun Belt)</span> <br style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">** Non BCS road game (If we must do CUSA, let's at least get out of the routine of UAB, Memphis, Tulane and Houston. How about East Carolina or Rice?)

</span>

 

[patdog]

<span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">2009</span>
Jackson State (I-AA)
Georgia Tech
Houston
at Middle Tennesse
LEAVE AS IS

<span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">2010</span>
Memphis
UAB
at Houston
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">2011</span>
at Memphis
at UAB
Tulane
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">2012</span>
Louisiana Tech
at Tulane
ADD WEAK BCS HOME GAME
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">2013</span>
Tulane
ADD WEAK BCS ROAD GAME
ADD I-AA HOME GAME
ADD NON-BCS HOME GAME

 

[saddawg]

I would play a Miss Swac school plus Ark St, W.Ky, and say somebody like Tulane or N. Texas every year.

Get those 4 and all you need is 2 SEC wins and you are Bowl eligible every year.

If you don't get those 4, your *** is fired.

 

[RaiderDawg24]

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2009</span>
Jackson State (I-AA)
Georgia Tech
Houston
at Middle Tennesse
LEAVE AS IS

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2010</span>
Memphis
UAB
at Houston
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2011</span>
at Memphis
at UAB
Tulane
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2012</span>
Louisiana Tech
at Tulane
ADD WEAK BCS HOME GAME
ADD I-AA HOME GAME

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2013</span>
Tulane
ADD WEAK BCS ROAD GAME
ADD I-AA HOME GAME
ADD NON-BCS HOME GAME

That is exactly what I would do. Having an I-AA each year is the only way to guarantee a home game without ending up in Ruston. I would like to see us play a home and home in '12 and '13 with a lower level Big 10 team. If in 2013 we were starting the home portion of a home and home with a non-BCS team, I wouldn't mind it being a C-USA team as long as it was someone different than our usual 4, I would prefer someone like SMU, Rice, East Carolina, UCF, etc.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

I love that 2011 schedule. I would try hard to lock down Memphis and Tulane every year. Great road trips, good alumni bases, so I can live with the home and home deal. Then I would schedule a D-1AA opponent every year. That's a no-brainer considering who we are and what conference we play in. For the forth game I would look for a regional lower tier BCS school like Baylor or a Non-BCS home and home like Houston or La. Tech. Bottom line, we need 4 non-conference wins every year.

 

[patdog]

Bottom line, we need 4 non-conference wins every year.

If you're looking for 4 non-conference wins every year, you damn sure don't want to be playing 2 of those games on the road.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Riiiight. Then you and everyone else would be roasting Byrne like he was Larry for scheduling like that and still charging $40 or $50 a game or more. We should not ever be so pitiful that we have to have a SWAC school, two Sun Belt schools and a CUSA school to have a shot a 6 wins. Unfortunately we are like that now thanks to Jackie's last few years and all of Croom's tenure. If we are going to get six wins or, perish the thought, 8 or 9 wins, then that means we will be pushing .500 or better in the SEC and we will be good enough to beat some BCS conference teams with some regularity.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

I like that Memphis and Tulane are on it. The 3rd game is UAB. All we need is to add a 1AA team and it's as good as we can get. We aren't going to have many schedules with 7 home games on it.</p>And I wouldn't call Birmingham and Memphis brutal road trips. Memphis, UAB, Tulane, and 1AA is about the perfect non-conference schedule for us.

 

[vhdawg]

....which is to bump either the Memphis road game or the UAB road game in 2011 to a much later year. If your goal is seven home games, that's clearly the first move. You push one of those out to 2013 or later to squeeze in room for some better home-and-homes.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

That's like Coach saying it was clear we would lose if whatshisname played QB for Vandy the whole game. Moving a game is a two way street, and who's to say that Memphis or UAB would let us move that game? I thought about that scenario for that year, but I didn't think that was what you were looking for.

 

[vhdawg]

....that you could move any scheduled game to where you would like it, you just couldn't cancel it.

 

[saddawg]

I would like that schedule.

Considering how well the ones of the past have worked out for us thru the years.

The SEC is tough enough.

The ooc games should be as light as we can get it. And we should play it early. Starting off 4-0 or 4-1 is a lot more fun.

 

[patdog]

We aren't going to have many schedules with 7 home games on it.

And I wouldn't call Birmingham and Memphis brutal road trips. Memphis, UAB, Tulane, and 1AA is about the perfect non-conference schedule for us.

With smart scheduling, we can have 7 home games at least 2/3 of the time even in this economic environment of larger guarantees. A I-AA game gives us the 5th home game every year, 2 home-and-home series against BCS or upper level non-BCS teams gives us the 6th home game, and a 2-for-1 with a lower level non-BCS gives us the 7th home game.

And no matter what you may think, I can assure you that Memphis and UAB consider those to be home games since their being played in their stadiums. If you'll scroll back on this board a couple of months, you'll find that most of us didn't consider LA Tech to be a brutal road trip either.

 

[patdog]

You push one of those out to 2013 or later to squeeze in room for some better home-and-homes.

That doesn't help you at all. You wind up with too many road games in the future years to get 7 home games in those years without playing two or even threee I-AA schools. Bottom line is we can't have 7 home games every year unless we can afford to have a I-A buy game every year with no return road game. And with the price of buy games in today's market, that's not easy for the lower tier BCS schools to do. That might change with the influx of TV money next year, but that might also push the price of those buy games even higher.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

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[DawgatAuburn]

I would hate that schedule. Give me at least one team from a real conference. I'd rather play Syracuse or Washington home and home than La Tech or MTSU. Even if those teams are as bad as the Sun Belt and CUSA teams we already play, the perception is a little better. I know we're not Auburn and can't just buy home games with BCS conference teams, but in the last 10-12 years they have played Kansas State, Washington State, USC (home and home), Virginia (home and home) and Ga Tech (home and home). I do think it needs to be early. Ideally this game would be the second game on the schedule, with an out of conference cupcake home game to open the year.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

If you'll scroll back on this board a couple of months, you'll find that most of us didn't consider LA Tech to be a brutal road trip either

It wasn't. And neither were home games against Maine and Houston that we also lost.

 

[Jackdragbean]

Well, if I was the ad, I'd be the brunette and I would explore a little self love. After that, I'd look to my left and get some girl on girl action with the blonde going and then work my way down the roster.