It's not the team's fault or the coaches' fault- but it is a sham and the fact that lots of teams do it doesn't make it any less of a sham.
Thoughts on Temple game?
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Sure, you’re absolutely correct. Yours is the majority opinion, everyone knows it’s a sham. The players do too, they watch the film. Pointing out what everyone knows to be true does what? The players and coaches have a job to do.
High school teams get to scrimmage other schools prior to the regular season. With 9 conference games this will be the format. The payday is essential to the victims. So it's win-win.
There are many reasons not to care the way we once did about college football. Sadly all the king's horses and men won't be able to put it back together again
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Big payday for the little team, easy win for the big team. Win-Win. Case in point, umasshole-rutgres.
But we deserve 12-0 with OOC wins against Bama, Georgia and Texas.
45-0 this past Saturday. I expected a much better outcome.
They are paid. We pay to watch. The product they deliver matters cause the romance no longer does. What product sold in the US sucks yet continues to make profit?. On 94 today, admittedly in a non college football town, they questioned the sustainability of such product based on fear of an early loss.
pro football (birds not pitt) is a way better product. Look at the week one heavyweight matchups. It’s unending all season.
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Back in my coaching days, I was only an OJ Simpson, Mike Garrett and Marcus Allen away from being John Mckay.
Still gotta win them. Did you think Western Michigan was a cupcake? App St. in years past? Or hell Freaking Toledo in 2000? Granted that Toledo team was pretty damn good.
The advantage Campbell has is being flush with cash money for NIL.
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That’s how you win championships today.
Saturday was small market vs big market. But among the big market teams PSU is on the smaller side.The advantage Campbell has is being flush with cash money for NIL.
Ok, I get that. Yea I did too. But it's moved on and I can't stop it.
Ehhh thats ok, I probably have too much Don Julio in me.
But didn’t big schools beat up on cupcakes back then too? Seems odd to play the “I-used-to-love-CFB” card while complaining about cupcakes on the schedule.
Serious question - I know the "small" schools get a payday when they visit a school like Penn State. Does Penn State get any revenue from a game @ Temple? Is there a percentage of the gate? Or is Penn State's revenue limited to the amount of tickets they are given to sell? I guess, the question should be, are they given tickets to sell or must Penn State buy them and then re-sell to make money?
I'm actually bitching about everything related to "college" football, not just scheduling.
But to your point, yes- there have always been cupcakes. But now that coaches are being paid fantastic salaries and players are being paid large ones, don't the fans who are being asked to pay for all that (and more) at least deserve quality games?
There are a ton of products sold in the US that suck yet continue to make a profit (look at fast food for starters).
What are you , 350 ? I bet you a big Popeye chicken eating MF, ain't you ?
This is what happens when you get a 911, yo @laKavosiey-st lion
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Temple trivia.
Only once in modern history has a major football conference kicked out one of its members: The former Big East, with Temple, in the early 2000s. At the time, Temple had a horrible football team, playing in front of minuscule crowds. Which makes it truly astonishing that LSU, which demolished Clemson on Saturday in front of 100,000 raucous spectators, would even be up for consideration.
Only once in modern history has a major football conference kicked out one of its members: The former Big East, with Temple, in the early 2000s. At the time, Temple had a horrible football team, playing in front of minuscule crowds. Which makes it truly astonishing that LSU, which demolished Clemson on Saturday in front of 100,000 raucous spectators, would even be up for consideration.
Some of it is okay, but a lot of it is garbage. The point is that something one person thinks is garbage, someone else likes.
I don’t think it’s an embarrassment to be playing them in general. But it is mind bogglingly stupid that we are playing them away. Temple is a team that should only ever be played at home for a payout game.
Wasting a precious away slot on them is inexcusable.
if we were determined to play a game in Philly then find a P4 opponent and play a one off game there.
Maybe they can schedule Universal Technical Institute next. They aren't a school to be pissed with.
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