(05-16-2020 08:48 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  

(05-16-2020 07:57 PM)SMUleopold Wrote:  

(05-16-2020 06:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Im not freaking out over it---but I dont think thats probably worth it. I dont like the idea of doing 2-for-1's with lower tier P5's. A 2-for-1 with nearby Texas or even Oklahoma St would have been more reasonable IMHO. I think you land lower tier P5's without going 2-for-1 if you are patient. I just think---If you are going to do a 2-for-1, I just think you should at least end up with at a mid-to-upper tier P5.

Great, and in the meantime?

Ever since the end of the SWC we have been able to land 2-1's from A&M, Okie State, TT, Wazzou, and Baylor a couple of times, and that makes up about 12% of the OOC games over the past 25 years. Keep in mind, Baylor and Wazzou are similar to Vandy - bottom ringers with a couple good years under a coach or two; Vandy had Johnson and Franklin, Baylor had Briles and a single good year under Rhule, and Wazzou had Leach for mediocrity, so I absolutely consider them in the same league as Vanderbilt - Wazzou absolutely STUNK during the years we played them.

Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas haven't touched us since the SWC, and they shouldn't, they have nothing to gain by playing us. UT and OU play in Dallas every year and Arky - well, we whipped the pigs 3 out of the last 4 times we played them in the mid-90's and we haven't seen them since.

So how long are we supposed to wait, 'cause it's been a quarter century.

Quote:SMU should see itself as being above the Vanderbilts of college football.

Okay, if you say so. Just make sure you tell Vandy, Kansas, etc. that when you attempt to get them on the phone - love to see how that negotiation goes.

"Hey, Northwestern? Yeah, this is SMU - we want to play you; we have similar open dates."

"Okay, sure, what were you thinking?"

"Well, we want a 1-and-1 and..."

*click*

"Hello??? Northwestern???"

That is exactly how that conversation is going to go.

For the record, the Vandy AD who scheduled this has since been fired for incompetence, albeit for unrelated matters, and Mason is on his way out, too. This is a horrible deal for them, they had no business signing it when they have a slew of G5 opponents like UNLV, MTSU, Colorado State, etc. who will happily take the one game option in Nashville for the payday - they F'd up.

Look, you can tell yourself that we are better than Alabama and Clemson if you want, but that doesn't change the fact that we have NO CARDS in these negotiations, and I won't even begin to discuss the coaching influence on scheduling - UH has been playing with a different stack of cards than SMU for a long time and the UH coaches could schedule a game with at least an outside shot of winning it. We scheduled A&M knowing damn well we were going to get our teeth kicked in, and that included bowl years.

Tulane has a home and home with northwestern starting this year.

Great. I also see 2-1's versus bottom feeders like Ole Miss and Wake Forest. If you were able to get a 1-1 then by all means do it, but I see alot more than run in their favor, so I stand by my point.

If you want to criticize SMU's schedule, go after the PILE of FCS schools on the future schedule, with no 2-1 with major powers offsetting them - that's just laziness on the coaches who scheduled them *cough* Chad Morris *cough*