re: Sankey on Conference Scheduling

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Is that a bad thing?

The directional school matchups lose interest before halftime and end up getting someone injured more often than not as one team is playing a lot harder later in a game than the other team.

The game reps are good for experience for younger guys, but few schools keep running their same playbook, so even that utility is somewhat limited.

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Once upon a time, we only played other "major" conference schools + ND or the service academies. Go pull a Mizzou schedule from anytime prior to about 1994.

In '93, their non-conference games were: Texas A&M, SMU, Illinois, and West Virginia. That was a pretty routine slate. In the 70s and 80s, Mizzou would put teams like Miami, Texas, and Notre Dame on the schedule. In '78, we had #5 Notre Dame, #1 Bama, Ole Miss, and Illinois as the non-conference slate.

In 2023, we face South Dakota, Middle Tennessee, Kansas State, and Memphis. What a load of shite. I'd rather watch Mizzou go 4-8 against a slate like '78 than watch us go 7-5 with the 2023 non-conference schedule propping us up.