(12-01-2014 10:16 AM)slycat Wrote:  Better schedule? Our fans would kill to get home games with Navy and Miss St in the same year. Just cause it's not as easy, doesn't mean it's not a great schedule. Ask Baylor fans how they feel about their AD scheduling cupcakes all the time.

I still hope all four schools can go bowling. Hope the SBC bids go out soon so we can start moving forward.

yeah, and as I've argued a thousand times before on our forums, it's foolishness... it's just another form of our "longhorn bobcat" mentality rearing it's ugly head. We want fans in the stands to watch us... not our opponents.

beefing our schedule up now just inflates attendance numbers temporarily and causes more damage to fan interest in the program than it creates.

we aren't going to generate program hype by getting our teeth kicked in by texas tech every year. Blowout losses just reinforce long held stereo-types held by Texas outsiders and our own insufferable old-timer "boosters".

We aren't Baylor. Not even close. If we were anything resembling Baylor, then yeah... cupcakes would be annoying.
We are a mediocre g5 team at best and we need to pad our record with W's, not L's to get bowl invites year-in and year-out. We need to establish a winning tradition MORE than we need interesting competition... (for now)

If we go bowling every year, we will improve our prestige, casual alum support, and recruit interest far more than we would with multiple 30+ point losses to big 12 schools every year. (see Marshall)

when we are good enough to run through the belt 8-0 or 7-1, then fine yeah... schedule a couple lower/mid level p5's a year.

Then and only then - after we are more competitive... throw in a ranked opponent.