re: It's time for the scheduling of non-conference patsies to stop

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And we play in the mutherlovin SEC for cryin out loud. We play 8 marquee games a year.

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Even more reason to implement a system like I'm proposing. Why should a Pac 12 or Big 12 team get to play a patsy conference schedule and 4 non-conference patsies too? If they're going to claim they are #1, make them prove it.

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Even more reason to implement a system like I'm proposing. Why should a Pac 12 or Big 12 team get to play a patsy conference schedule and 4 non-conference patsies too? If they're going to claim they are #1, make them prove it.

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What are you talking about? That has nothing to do with your original argument.

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Totally agree with you here.. Teams should be punished for scheduling shitty rent a wins (FBS or FCS/non BCS conference)

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You then deprive those small schools of millions of dollars a year. How do people not grasp this concept?

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I'm embarrased that we're playing Idaho and Towson. Nothing wrong with Washington and either North Texas or Idaho. But not both. And if we're going to play some 1-AA goober,play one from Louisiana, not Baltimore.

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I know what you mean. Wouldn't you rather see LSU vs Texas than LSU vs Idaho? Or, LSU vs Florida State than LSU vs Towson? And, if all the other top 25 teams were playing the same caliber of non-conference opponents it would be awesome.

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Frankly, I'm pissed off that Alabama would even schedule a team like FAMU

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You mean FAU?

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Instead of the universities making their own non-conference schedules, have the NCAA do it.

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You want the NCAA to have more power? What University would agree to this? I wouldn't want USC spending all that money to travel to places like Stanford, Okie State, and Wisconsin every single year for games most fans can't even go to.

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Here is one possible way.

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So you don't like conferences? I'm so confused by all of this. I didn't read the whole thread but this idea sucks. How many rivalries are lost with this scheduling format? There just isn't a good way to make this fair. Every year schools that were good/great the year before can't have the same success so you can't really base it off of last year.

Also, Its a South Carolina state law that the bigger programs (USC & Clemson) schedule and play smaller in-state schools such as Wofford, Furman, or the Citadel each year. A lot of smaller schools get a huge check for playing in these games. They rely on that money for a lot of reasons.

Crimson,

The world just doesn't work that way, there are far too many factors that will prevent that from happening and honestly it shouldn't happen.

1. The NCAA has nothing to do with scheduling FBS teams. If anything the power of the NCAA over big time football is going away, not strengthening. The conferences and the schools run the show and they aren't giving up that power.

2. Schools schedule patsies so they can get wins and go to bowl games. Folks like undefeated teams and no one likes a winless team. The current system makes those 2 things more likely.

3. Small programs need the money. For FCS teams and fledgling FBS teams it is critical to their budget to play buyout games. If your stadium holds 20k and you sell tickets for $15 a chance to get a $750k payout to play a big time program is HUGE. 2 for 1 and 3 for 1 scenarios also are big because often folks from the big school will just buy season tickets because they aren't much more expensive, that's what happened with A&M's game against SMU last weekend. It also gives them a chance to market at least 1 marquee game.

4. Small schools love these games. Sure they know they will likely lose but at least they get a chance to play i Tiger Stadium or Kyle Field. That's a cool experience. They also get to learn how much they have to work on to get better by playing top competition and can keep the dream of being an Appalachian State or the like and pulling out the unexpected win.

5. It's good for the players on the big team. It allows them to work on their schemes in a glorified scrimmage. It allows for the backups to get on the field and get experience and show they deserve a shot at moving up the depth chart as well.

6. It makes for at least a couple of games that "normal" folks can go to. At A&M the face value for Florida tickets was $100. If you actually could get them that is, on Stubhub it was 3 times that for mediocre seats. For SC State they have some cheap seats that you can buy on promotions for as low as $30. That at least makes it feasible for someone that isn't rolling in cash to take their kid to a game and experience big time college football. That's good for everyone. If every game is a feature game you can't do that.

Unless a team has a ton of depth, like LSU or bama, no coach is going to want to risk the amount of injuries that would occur when his top 22-30 players have to play every down of every game. LSU has lost a starting CB, LB, Ol, RB, and Safety ( last 2 for substantial amounts of game time) and we have not even started conference play yet. There was a good reason why St.Bobby elected to go to the ACC & not the SEC: he knew his starters would only have to play mabe 3 quarters in only a few games each yr. My main bitch is charging me the same ticket price, as a season ticket holder, for Towson as for bama, S.Carolina, Moo St, etc.

They'll stop scheduling high school teams when the fans stop paying to see them. I can't justify going to these games anymore, and the number of people like me is getting larger I think.

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They'll stop scheduling high school teams when the fans stop paying to see them. I can't justify going to these games anymore, and the number of people like me is getting larger I think.

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No they won't.

I think Crimson's sentiment speaks to a large deal of the sidewalk fan base. No educated person would say something this stupid. People that actually attended their institutions realize there are way more things in play when the Alabamas play a weak OOC school than the fans entertainment. His Opinion is it is all about entertaining the Alabama football fans. They truly are the most arrogant entitled jackasses out there.