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Schedule/Blanchett article in S-R

Agreed, an 0-3 start and you may as well cash in whatever chips you got left... the season would be effectively over.

And that is what annoys me so much about our scheduling... there is no contingency plan. Sure we COULD have started this year 1-1 or even 2-0, but what if we don't? Did we give any thought to the possibility that this schedule hurts our chances? Did we give any thought to the possibility that next's years schedule is atrocious?

At what cost is jeopardising your team's success not worth it? I'd say one FBS game every year, absolutely under no circumstances should there ever be more than one. Get the team willing to pay the most, hopefully a BCS school. Play at least one non-conf home game in September as a tune-up against a team you know you'll beat.

The issue I have with playing South Dakota and Idaho on the road is that it destroys our chance to get momentum in the season if we lose. Starting the season 0-2 is a virtual death sentence. And what could possibly USD or Idaho pay us to make such a thing seem reasonable? Well, we know USD didn't pay us a damn thing... so that makes it doubly terrible.

It also doesn't give us any chance of working through our rotation and work on building depth... it also keeps us from being able to keep starters healthy. There was a lot of talk in Seattle about UW's new A-B-C scheduling strategy... and there's a logical reason for playing that kind of schedule. It relates to what we do, except it might be more like A-B-Z.
 
Flyinnail hitting it right on the head. Of course I realize hindsight is 20/20, but the focus should have been on the UM game when we were making the decision on what to do in week 2. "What is the best way to put ourselves in position to beat Montana?" That should have been the foremost question on the AD's mind in deciding what to do in between UW and Montana. Putting your team on the road for 3 consecutive weeks, with the cumulative effects of travel, was not the right answer. And no competent person involved in college athletics (as I was a few years back) would need the benefit of hindsight to come to that conclusion.
 
oldtimeewualum said:
Flyinnail hitting it right on the head. Of course I realize hindsight is 20/20, but the focus should have been on the UM game when we were making the decision on what to do in week 2. "What is the best way to put ourselves in position to beat Montana?" That should have been the foremost question on the AD's mind in deciding what to do in between UW and Montana. Putting your team on the road for 3 consecutive weeks, with the cumulative effects of travel, was not the right answer. And no competent person involved in college athletics (as I was a few years back) would need the benefit of hindsight to come to that conclusion.
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Yup. Well said.

This year's South Dakota faux pas is water under the bridge, but I pray we LEARN from it. Next year's schedule, if left unchaged, is going to be just as bad or worse. You simply don't schedule two FBS teams to open the season on the road and *expect* success. Maybe we win one or both, but again, where's the planning for if that doesn't happen? How much is Idaho paying to make you potentially throw your season away?

I firmly believe we were a playoff-caliber team in 2008. But we scheduled like idiots and it cost us a shot because we opened the season 2-4. We lost to two BCS teams and never had a shot to work on things... and when you only have 63 schollie players, you need those easier games to work on building depth. Let's never do that again.
 
LDopaPDX and I dont agree on Earlywine and the bball situation, but we are definitely in lock-step on this scheduling fiasco. Like I said before, let's hope Coach Baldwin and the guys can rise above the idiocy of the administration.
 
We don't agree on that? I don't recall ever really having a position on Earlywine other than that he needed to win a lot more.
 
Ahhh - I thought you were one of the anti-Earlywine crowd. My bad. I know we all wanted the W's to come quicker, but I was one of the seemingly few who thought he was really making progress. And given the situation that he inherited...
 
oldtimeewualum said:
Ahhh - I thought you were one of the anti-Earlywine crowd. My bad. I know we all wanted the W's to come quicker, but I was one of the seemingly few who thought he was really making progress. And given the situation that he inherited...
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Who gives a flying shit about BB ? Its Griz weeknd and we GOTTA win !!! Its FOOTBALL season you knuckleheads !!! GOEAGS!!!!
 
flyingnail said:
oldtimeewualum said:
Ahhh - I thought you were one of the anti-Earlywine crowd. My bad. I know we all wanted the W's to come quicker, but I was one of the seemingly few who thought he was really making progress. And given the situation that he inherited...
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Who gives a flying shit about BB ? Its Griz weeknd and we GOTTA win !!! Its FOOTBALL season you knuckleheads !!! GOEAGS!!!!
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FTG, Lets go boys!!
 
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