re: Aggies 2012 Football Schedule: Over or Under .500 in the SEC?

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Lay off the schedule. It's pretty effing hard to make a schedule in a month. Remember we had 9 conference games and Arky OOC and changed to 8 conference games and Arky one of those 8. We had a hard time fitting it together. We had to agree to play La Tech in Louisiana and bought out McNeese St to pick up S Car St

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I dunno if I buy what the $Bill is selling on this one. I have heard that we had an FBS team lined up but the deal collapsed at the last second. I've also heard we were refusing to give a return game to most everyone which is silly to me considering we are probably going to be redoing Kyle in the next couple of years. 2014 would have been a perfect year to give a return trip with two games already set for DFW vs Arky and SMU.

Never mind that there were several FBS schools that also needed last minute games or that Mizzou was able to pick up Syracuse on Nov 17 when we play Sam Houston St.

Aug 30 Louisiana Tech Shreveport, La. - Win
Sep 08 Florida * College Station - Loss
Sep 15 SMU Dallas, Texas - Win
Sep 22 South Carolina State College Station - Win
Sep 29 Arkansas * College Station - Loss
Oct 06 Ole Miss * Oxford, Miss. - Win
Oct 20 LSU * College Station - Loss
Oct 27 Auburn * Auburn, Ala. - Loss
Nov 03 Miss State * Starkville, Miss. - Win
Nov 10 Alabama * Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Loss
Nov 17 Sam Houston State College Station - Win
Nov 24 Missouri * College Station - Loss

Thanks for the condeceding response. No shite we cant both play them. Thats simply an example to show Bill is full of it when he said it was impossible to get an FBS team. People were saying we were going to end up with Sam Houston long before Mizzou took the Orangemen. Also, the excuse that we can't just give away a home game is horseshite. The only way we would be giving away $3 million is if we are going to build a completely new stadium on West campus. Otherwise the stadium is not going have the capacity to pull those numbers. Never mind that a game vs a team like Syracuse is a for sure ESPN game while the FCS games will be lucky to go further than PPV.

Oh and BTW, Missouri is NOT giving Syracuse a return trip.

So yea, I think I could have done a better job b/c I think paying $800k for a likely FBS win that counts towards bowl eligibilty and would for sure be on TV is far more valuable than a dangerous game against one of the best FCS teams, that will be on PPV, on the tail end of a brutal road tour of Alabama and Mississippi.

Great. A game vs Syracuse would be on national TV and not online or PPV. The exposure is worth the price.

1-7, OT win over Ole Miss.

Well, Byrne's gone. That's our schedule. No use in bitching about it. I am fine with it. We are thin at DT and MLB. Positions that take a pounding. Might as well have an extra cupcake to heal up.

I'm a season ticket holder and am pleased with our home slate. And if you think we were going to only have 5 home games in a year you're crazy

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6-6 is reasonable prediction...
with some bowl
anything better is major accomplishment for coaching staff IMO...........

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It's gonna take 7 wins to be bowl eligible though.

We all hopped on that one

6-6 (2-6) with wins vs Ole Miss and either Mizzou or UF. 7-5 if we can win both those toss up games or steal one on the road vs MSU or Auburn. I'd be very happy with 7-5.