re: Tennessee getting ripped for cancelling its game

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With Army in 2022. They went instead with an easier opponent Akron. Is this how far they have fallen???

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They deserve to get ripped for it. I honestly do not understand the rationale behind scheduling all these shitty non-conference games: it's bad for the fans, it's bad for the program's perception, and it's a lost revenue opportunity. I would rather see Mizzou go 5-7 every year but play three or four solid non-conference games instead of going 6-6 or 7-5 but playing North Texas, Central Michigan, and SEMO like this season. There is nothing to gain from playing those schools, but if we lose it's program-decimating.

For Mizzou, we should be scheduling some combination of Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, and Iowa State every year. Those are mostly historic rivalry games for us that will get fans in the seat and help us on the recruiting front (particularly Illinois in that regard since we get a lot of our best players from that state).

I honestly think Mizzou's attendance dip in recent years has as much do to with the terrible home game schedule as it does the protest disaster in 2015. It seems like every season, our first two to three home games are against a shitty FCS school followed by two mid-majors. I'm not going to pay $75+ and drive two hours each way to attend those games. And I know for a lot of Mizzou folks in KC, they are trying to justify going to a Mizzou-SEMO game instead of sticking around and going to Arrowhead for Mahomes and the Chiefs on Sunday, which is also two hours closer.