(05-29-2018 09:19 AM)ml1323 Wrote:  

(05-29-2018 08:54 AM)Gary Miller Wrote:  

(05-29-2018 08:47 AM)ml1323 Wrote:  

(05-28-2018 04:57 PM)surfsalot Wrote:  I hope we're not that desperate.

Desperate? I’d love to play as many P5 teams as possible. Ability to get big time games like that only help the program.

It's rather easy to schedule a P5 non-conference opponent when they just pay you to play them at their house, so if that's what we were doing with NC State then I wouldn't like that. The "anything is possible" quote from Keatts sounds rather bleak, IMO. Keatts has never been one to schedule a tough non-conference slate, I can't imagine he'd take the risk of bringing one of his teams to Trask.

Yes, so if you want to balance the budget and get great experience for your team, why not? We make more money going there than we do playing a home game against D1 competition or, worse, paying a lower division team to come to Trask. It’s a win-win situation.

Last year at a surprisingly good LSU, we were a first half suspension of 2 starters away from stealing a win and getting paid to do it.

I don't disagree with any of this, but my point is I'd rather we play a "pay game" against an LSU, Clemson, or Georgetown type program than NC State. If we play them they need to come to Trask too. It's two hours down the road, Bass has State ties, and it's the least Keatts can do at this point. So I wouldn't want to play a pay game with them. Just my opinion.