Quarantine the athletic department!
Seeing the trend?
| Non-Conference Quality Opponents | |
|---|---|
| Florida Gators | Southern Miss (9-5), @ Florida State (7-6) |
| Texas | @ Ohio State (10-2) |
| Southern Cal | Virginia Tech (10-3), Notre Dame (6-6) |
| LSU | @ Arizona (2-10), |
| Ohio State | @ Texas Tech (9-5), Washington St. (10-3), Cincinnati (7-7) |
There is something to be taken from the last 5 BCS champion. They all scheduled quality opponents from other BCS conferences. In this day and age of needing to almost go undefeated to make it to the championship game (except this year), schools are shying away from scheduling other BCS opponents taking the easy way out and paying for that easy W. This is why Coastal Carolina and Temple serves absolutely no purpose being on our schedule. If we win, great, no one outside of Happy Valley cares and there is not a chance in hell voters will move the Lions up the rankings for beating Coastal or Temple. If we lose however, oh, break out the ear-muffs because the laughter will be heard all the way from El Paso. So scheduling these useless matchups are not only unattractive to ticket holders, but is a no-win situation.
Recently some prominent alum have threatened to withdraw their contributions to Penn State if the two idiots who wore Virginia Tech victim costumes for Halloween were not expelled prompting the university to actually issue a memo asking the students to conduct an ‘impromptu’ show of support. It is not the irony of requesting an ‘impromptu’ show of support which interests me, but rather the fact that the administration felt compelled by the threat of the dollar that they actually responded. I hereby call upon alumni and graduating students to issue monetary threats against the school. If we see Coastal Carolina or Temple on the schedule next year, we will keep those dollars tucked away in our wallets instead of headed over to dear ol’ State.
That’ll make em listen. Money always talks.
Releated Posts:
- Basketball Non-Conference Schedule Released
- Penn State will face Rutgers in 2014-15
- No one to blame but themselves
- Two (sort of) Scheduling Notes
- Scoping out the Secondary Market













