(02-16-2018 09:10 PM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  

(02-16-2018 07:58 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(02-16-2018 07:12 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Yep. The freeze out, the squeeze...whatever you want to call it is happening. That P6 crap is backfiring. It threatened the cartel so they won’t play us. Old Dominion, Charlotte, App st?
Houston’s scheduling of Georgia St, UTSA and Boise?
I see a trend. A terrible trend.

Memphis is in the middle of a HH with ULM and has future HHs with South Alabama, Georgia State, UTSA, and UNT. We also have HHs with Arkansas State which is OK since we have history with them and Jonesboro is only an hr from Memphis.

But what I don't understand is why Memphis doesn't schedule an old rival like USM or try to get a good program like SDSU on the schedule.

I was looking at Memphis future OOC a while back and thought wow that is awful. Is Memphis having difficulty scheduling OOC or just a new scheduling philosophy. Next year you only have one good OOC game and that is Missouri but it is on the road. Your home OOC is god awful. Memphis does not have a good game until UCF comes to town. Hopefully both of you will be ranked around Top 15 at the time because the AAC needs one of you to get the Access Bowl again.

As for WVU ? I would not let them keep kicking our home game down the road. WVU has a lot of alumni in North Carolina and in Myrtle Beach so they usually bring a good crowd to Ficklen. If they don't want to come to Ficklen then just pay us and cancel the series.

Memphis' scheduling philosophy seems to be to only play one P5 a year whether home or away and one FCS. Through 2023 we only have HHs with Ole Miss, Miss State, Missouri, and an away game at Purdue. The rest of OOC is mostly drek. I don't think the fans like it at all, and there's no reason to do it since better programs are available.

(02-16-2018 09:10 PM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  

(02-16-2018 07:58 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(02-16-2018 07:12 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Yep. The freeze out, the squeeze...whatever you want to call it is happening. That P6 crap is backfiring. It threatened the cartel so they won’t play us. Old Dominion, Charlotte, App st?
Houston’s scheduling of Georgia St, UTSA and Boise?
I see a trend. A terrible trend.

Memphis is in the middle of a HH with ULM and has future HHs with South Alabama, Georgia State, UTSA, and UNT. We also have HHs with Arkansas State which is OK since we have history with them and Jonesboro is only an hr from Memphis.

But what I don't understand is why Memphis doesn't schedule an old rival like USM or try to get a good program like SDSU on the schedule.

I was looking at Memphis future OOC a while back and thought wow that is awful. Is Memphis having difficulty scheduling OOC or just a new scheduling philosophy. Next year you only have one good OOC game and that is Missouri but it is on the road. Your home OOC is god awful. Memphis does not have a good game until UCF comes to town. Hopefully both of you will be ranked around Top 15 at the time because the AAC needs one of you to get the Access Bowl again.

As for WVU ? I would not let them keep kicking our home game down the road. WVU has a lot of alumni in North Carolina and in Myrtle Beach so they usually bring a good crowd to Ficklen. If they don't want to come to Ficklen then just pay us and cancel the series.

Exactly. They can pay now and let us get on with it.

(02-16-2018 12:24 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  ECU and West Virginina signed a long term H&H right before conference realignment started. Since then WVU has canceled 4 games out right and moved back the @ECU game until 2026. They canceled the latest game to play an FCS team. I'm doubting the 2026 game ever gets played now. Not happy with this cartel scheduling crap. The AAC is getting the squeeze.

They only have 3 OOC games and we are trying to not play such a tough OOC slate since the AAC is tough as is.


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Look, if we want to be a power conference, we need to schedule like a power conference. 1 OOC P6 opponent, preferably at a neutral site, a couple sun belt teams (MAC will do for Cincy and UConn, and a late season battle with someone like Woffird or Charleston Southern.