re: Future sched news - '24 M&W game on 4/20

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Gotta love Bill Byrne's scheduling prowess.

Make a big splash in the news with a press release announcing a deal to schedule a potential marquee OOC opponent, then do nothing to actually see that said deal actually goes through.

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I know everyone loves to bash Byrne but basically every school has this issue. They try to schedule way out and then as it gets closer the schools mutually decide they don't want the game.

Oregon and K-State were supposed to play last season in the regular season. They scrubbed it by mutual consent and both added an FCS school to replace it. They should have been hammered mercilessly in the press over it as they sat 1/2. But instead they were both on track to play for the title until they lost a conference game. There is simply no incentive to anyone to play big OOC games right now and unfortunately, a 9-game SEC schedule would increase that. We'd never play anyone worth a shite (not that we are now).

Truthfully, one of our biggest problems is we've been selling out the stadium on season tickets. That means that we make about the same money whether we play SHSU or Notre Dame. The stadium expansion hopefully will have two-fold of an effect - make more money while also encouraging better games since the crap games won't sell out.