Our home schedule next year is kinda hard.

[Brutius]

because you, 8dog, and all the other people agreeing with you are saying the best we can do is 6 wins, and I am saying I'd rather play those hard teams at home to win more than 6. You are a pessimist and I want us to beat those teams. You've marked the games down as losses regardless of where they are played, and I have not. That's the difference.

 

[SLUdog]

but would rather play at home naturally.

 

[8dog]

I'd love to win 10 games next year, but that's not going to happen. If Mark Keenum walked into MSU and said "I want us to be ranked higher than Harvard in academics in 5 years", I would think the guy is the wrong person to lead our university. To say Im changing my argument is ridiculous. The whole point to the caveat "in a year we'll probably be bad" or the like is to make people focus on the fact that 6-7 wins is probably the goal. Hell, the best team we've had in 8 years won only 7 regular season games.

Anyone with any sense knows that 6 wins is an admirable goal for our program next year and is what we need to have another good recruiting year. Its easier to reach that goal when your toss ups are at home.

Disappointing that so many people can't get this. Hell, its the exact reason we blast Templeton for scheduling West Virginia when the program was rebuilding. You use the Tubby-OM plan. Schedule nothing but easy non conf games to give yourself the best chance to win and get to a bowl so then you can sell your program.

 

[Pony Express.sixpack]

OM beat Texas Tech, a major upset? No, the big 12 tackle like girl scouts. The biggest play of the year was a Texas player mistackling Michael Crabtree. Oklahoma State might be next season's Texas Tech, win alot of early games, might catch Texas napping...could play Oklahoma for the Big-12 south title as an unbeaten in November.

Watch the OSU-Oregon game and you will see that OSU can't tackle and had safteys run-over by a midget Pac-10 QB.

I would like for us to play Alabama earlier in the season where they play Arkansas. The killed Arkansas last year, but Alabama seems to get better as the season goes on. LSU is the opposite, they play great and then fade into underperformace against OM and Arkansas.</p>