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[TheJON]

Just was checking the non-conference schedules and what a fucking pathetic joke these allegedly elite programs are.

Good god, doesn't anyone besides a few teams have a fucking pair of balls?

Tejas........really? LA-Monroe, Wyoming, UTEP, and Central Florida? REEAAALLLYY???

Florida........You're the defending national champs. You're the god damn favorites to re-peat. Florida International, Troy and Charleston Southern? Charleston fucking Southern? For real???

LSU.........Washington, LA-Lafayette, Tulane, and Louisiana Tech. Jesus Christ.

State Penn......Akron, Syracuse, Temple, Eastern Illinois (no Romo's not the QB). Does JoePa know Jim Brown graduated from Syracuse a while back and will no longer be their RB?

I'm especially calling out Tejas. Come on, Mack.....you've got some of the best talent in the country that you can just handpick from. Every year, top 5 recruiting classes, and you got out and schedule 5 crappy mid-majors? Not even good mid-majors either. Shit ones.

Man, what the fuck happened to having some decent non-conference games to watch every week? Now, it's just a month long circle jerk. College Football continues to become a joke. Anyone that is excited for the season to start in September should probably know it doesn't actually begin until October.

[Left Seater]

Jon,

It really isn't that big of a deal. The UCF game is a recruiting game. They played there two years ago and this is the return game. This year and next year they had agreements to play Colorado prior to the Big XII formation. That went away with the formation of the new conference and is also the reason RICE isn't on the schedule this year. In the next few years they have UCLA and Ole Miss. In the past few years they have had Ohio State, Arkansas (4) times, and TCU.


On the other hand, that Texas schedule looks like the meatgrinder compared to the Iowa schedule. Northern Iowa, Iowa State, Arizona, and Arkansas State.

[Van]

Jon, I'd go ahead and hit you with the glass dick, since I've already posted this thread (ad nauseum, many would say), but I'm too busy swooning.

Music to my ears, music to my ears.

[M Club]

Jesus, WTF? All these people using text messaging. Doesn't anyone write letters anymore?

[Van]

Jesus, WTF? All these people using text messaging. Doesn't anyone write letters anymore?

('Cept, I don't text either. Still, the point is spot on.)

[King Crimson]

throw out the Ohio State home-home, which is the exception to the rule. UT nearly always plays a cupcake OOC. and only rarely leaves the state of Texas.

to be fair, the future is better. they have some decent series lined up for the next decade. but, hitherto and especially in the SWC....cupcakes and "roadies" to Houston.

[Terry in Crapchester]

This year and next year they had agreements to play Colorado prior to the Big XII formation. That went away with the formation of the new conference and is also the reason RICE isn't on the schedule this year.

Wait a minute, here. Are you telling me that Texas had OOC games scheduled 14-15 years out?

[Left Seater]

They did with two series. CU and UCLA. Not sure why but it has effected the series with RICE.


King Crimson, you are smart enough to understand the reasons for the "Houston" games. It is the same reason for the El Paso series.

[King Crimson]

They did with two series. CU and UCLA. Not sure why but it has effected the series with RICE.


King Crimson, you are smart enough to understand the reasons for the "Houston" games. It is the same reason for the El Paso series.

i might not be that smart....what i know, is when OU plays Houston or Rice it's a "cupcake" and when UT plays Houston or Rice it's a "traditional SWC Rivalry" (and therefore not a cupcake). What is the reason? It seems like a softball road game in a stadium that's going to be half or more full of UT fans (like a lot of SWC games were). not altogether different than when OU plays at Tulsa. If in our glorious future-times conference, OU plays Iowa State OOC....is that a "traditional Big 8 Rivalry"? :D

CU and Texas did play a home-home in the early 90's, that was a really good series...so it's not altogether impossible that there had been another penciled in--talks b/ween AD's.

[Left Seater]

It is exactly the same as playing Tulsa. OU has many alumni in Tulsa and playing a game there is for their benefit. OU and Texas play in Dallas each year and both have a ton of alumns there. You must have been to one of those games and have seen all of the local alumni fundraisers and events all week leading up to the game?

It is the same for Texas playing RICE. The game is often at Reliant and yes has more Texas fans than us. The local Houston alumni make a big deal and have all kinds of fundraisers that week. Same reason Texas went out to play in El Paso last year. It was one of the most anticipated games there in decades. In the old SWC Texas played two games a year in Dallas, and one a year in Houston. The recent scheduling has tried to get close to that.

This isn't limited to football either. Both Men's and Women's basketball comes to town each year and so does baseball, tennis, etc.

[Harvdog]

We were supposed to play Arkansas this year and they backed out. We were also supposed to have played a home and home with Utah and they backed out. The reason we are playing Wyoming is Utah is chicken shit.

The proposed 2009 OOC was supposed to be:

Colorado
Utah
UTEP
Arkansas

With the Colorado deal we had to schedule UCF. When Arkansas backed out we had to schedule U-LA Monroe. When Utah pussed out we brought in Wyoming. We were trying to get Notre Dame to agree to a home and home but fat ass Weiss didn't want to play us.

[Van]

How is Colorado an OOC game for Texas?

[King Crimson]

It is exactly the same as playing Tulsa. OU has many alumni in Tulsa and playing a game there is for their benefit. OU and Texas play in Dallas each year and both have a ton of alumns there. You must have been to one of those games and have seen all of the local alumni fundraisers and events all week leading up to the game?

It is the same for Texas playing RICE. The game is often at Reliant and yes has more Texas fans than us. The local Houston alumni make a big deal and have all kinds of fundraisers that week. Same reason Texas went out to play in El Paso last year. It was one of the most anticipated games there in decades. In the old SWC Texas played two games a year in Dallas, and one a year in Houston. The recent scheduling has tried to get close to that.

This isn't limited to football either. Both Men's and Women's basketball comes to town each year and so does baseball, tennis, etc.

sure. and that's true about Dallas/OU alums. 2/3 of my high school buds live/work in Dallas....as does my sister. i guess, for me, and perhaps in error, the driving distance between Norman/OKC and Tulsa is not so great that I think of it that way (a bone for Tulsa OU alums)....whereas the distances are measurably larger between the more major cities in Texas. for high school golf tourneys we used to drive to Tulsa in the AM, play 36 holes, and drive back to Norman. Tulsa is a town that's pretty split b/ween OU and OSU peeps and a healthy dose of Hogs and some KU/MU people in the mix.

i confess, that having grown up in Norman and been pretty close to the U most of my life through my parents in school, law or grad school, and my mom worked there more than once, my Dad's continuous support of OU sports...both have lived in Norman since 1969...and me living out of state for the last 15 years, i don't always see the big picture for OU fan on the ground. my lens is a little narrow, over-determined by the preferences of my youth, and i tend to universalize my own experience (like most people).

[King Crimson]

How is Colorado an OOC game for Texas?

it was scheduled before the formation of the Big XII...though, to be honest, as someone living in Boulder for almost 15 years....i've never heard anything about this series being proposed and then canceled. it's not something i've heard CU fans talk about. and it's hard to say "our OOC should have been X this year"...when you've known CU was off the OOC board for the last 13 years.

[Van]

Yeah. Texas doesn't get any OOC credit for having CU on the schedule.

[Van]

Huh?

Ummm...huh??

:?

[Van]

Okay, so it's an oblique rip on Texas then...

Gotcha. I think.

[Van]

I guess I'm just sort of conditioned now to expect it to always be a rip on USC, and I was struggling to see how that could've been the case there.

Mea culpa.

[King Crimson]

I guess I'm just sort of conditioned now to expect it to always be a rip on USC, and I was struggling to see how that could've been the case there.

Mea culpa.

Froz should have done it like this:

USC gets all kinds of credit* for putting a ranked Arizona State on their non-conference schedule.

[Van]

That would've done it for me, yep. I was missing the sarcasm, and that little dude would've helped me out.

The fact that he's a Sooner fan, and we were just talking about Texas and Colorado, that should've been the give away.

Oh well, I missed it.

[PSUFAN]

I've been trying not to Hear this Evil for a while now...but ALL scheduling, by ALL teams, is about Da Geld.

Did you guys hear about Delaware State taking a forfeit loss so they can serve as cupcake fodder for UM? That pretty much says it all, right?