(11-07-2019 04:41 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(11-03-2019 09:02 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(11-02-2019 10:21 PM)Bull Wrote:  Haha.. Liberty is FBS for a couple years... is having success and hangs 63 on someone... and all folks can say is soft schedule. Bias evident. Congrats Liberty!

I have no bias against Liberty. Certainly not religious - I'm a conservative Christian and I respected Jerry Falwell.

But the fact is, they are schlepping their way to a possible bowl with an extremely soft schedule. According to the MC, so far, their six wins have come over the teams ranked 122, 127, 129, 83, unranked, and unranked. And the rankings go out to 130 teams.

IIRC, they have to win one more game to become bowl eligible. One of those is a rematch with Mighty New Mexico State, the #127 team. The others are versus BYU and Virginia.

If they become bowl eligible by beating either of the latter two, I will doff my cap and withdraw my objection. But if they make a bowl via virtue of wins over Buffalo, New Mexico, New Mexico State x2 (!!!), UMass, Maine (FCS) and Hampton (HBCU-FCS), that will be sad.

Not necessarily arguing with you, but from an institutional point of view it makes sense. It's far better to rack up as many wins as they can until they've been recruiting at an FBS level for years and built up the talent level and fan support.

If they aren't going to a major bowl anyway it's better to go 8-4 with a crap schedule and at least fire up the fans than it is to go 4-8 with a tougher schedule and get the coach on the hot seat but get a nod of respect from impartial observers.

I actually agree with you - for the reasons you mention, what Liberty is doing in scheduling is smart from their POV.

I just don't want to see it rewarded with a bowl bid that IMO isn't really deserved.