Let Notre Dame schedule all their games at home if other schools are stupid enough to agree. I wish BYU would never agree to a 2 for 1 or neutral site contract. The smaller conferences should unite and sign a pact that they will not schedule anything but home and away. Of course they need the money and that will never happen.

mormonrasta wrote:

Cougy_Monster wrote:

In a 12 game season, the NCAA should require 6 home and 6 away games (or 6 home, 5 away and a neutral site) to be bowl eligible. This lopsided scheduling for the "power" schools is lame. If they had as much confidence in their team as the media does they wouldn't have a problem playing away games.

It's not confidence in the team it's $$$$. Stadium revenue is BY FAR the #1 revenue source for major football programs. It makes BCS money look like chump change.

I highly doubt that Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Texas, etc. are afraid to travel to smaller programs. They just don't want to play in a stadium with only 35,000 people or less when programs like that pack in 80-100,000 people. They lose MAJOR revenue by taking on smaller schools.

I guess we should replace:

WF - 31,500
Duke - 33,941
Cincinnati - 35,000
WSU - 35,117

with:

UAB - 71,594
SDSU - 70,561
Rice - 70,000
Tulane - 69,703
Temple - 68,532
BYU - 64,045



While I admit the ticket sales are a factor, I'm still not seeing Florida budge out of its swamp to come play a game at any of these venues...

MajorCougar wrote:

I guess we should replace:

WF - 31,500
Duke - 33,941
Cincinnati - 35,000
WSU - 35,117

with:

UAB - 71,594
SDSU - 70,561
Rice - 70,000
Tulane - 69,703
Temple - 68,532
BYU - 64,045

:blink:

While I admit the ticket sales are a factor, I'm still not seeing Florida budge out of its swamp to come play a game at any of these venues... :P :laugh:

Stadium capacity doesn't mean jack unless you fill the seats. Yeah it's nice that Temple plays in a large venue, but since only 10,000 people actually go to those games they are an unattractive road destination. If you want examples of what I'm talking about look at Ohio State. Their only road nonconference game this year is at USC, last year it was Washington, and the year before it was Texas. All of those schools have HUGE venues and crowds by college football standards.

I'm wondering if the real reason we are playing USU is to help them stay D1 eligible? The NCAA requires (for the D1 FBS) an avg home attendance over any consectuive two year period of 15,000. Playing BYU at home in alternate years and selling out that game will probably be the only thing keeping USU in D1.

mormonrasta wrote:

Cougy_Monster wrote:

In a 12 game season, the NCAA should require 6 home and 6 away games (or 6 home, 5 away and a neutral site) to be bowl eligible. This lopsided scheduling for the "power" schools is lame. If they had as much confidence in their team as the media does they wouldn't have a problem playing away games.

It's not confidence in the team it's $$$$. Stadium revenue is BY FAR the #1 revenue source for major football programs. It makes BCS money look like chump change.

I highly doubt that Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Texas, etc. are afraid to travel to smaller programs. They just don't want to play in a stadium with only 35,000 people or less when programs like that pack in 80-100,000 people. They lose MAJOR revenue by taking on smaller schools.

I agree that money is a big reason why they schedule extra home games, as if they need the extra cash. It is not small wonder that most college coaches suck at the college level. Nick Saban found out that his success at LSU had less to do with his coaching ability as it did built in advantages to large schools.

The again, I would not support the idea of BYU playing road games at some dinky MAC or Sun Belt School. I think they need to thin the FBS.

mormonrasta wrote:

MajorCougar wrote:

I guess we should replace:

WF - 31,500
Duke - 33,941
Cincinnati - 35,000
WSU - 35,117

with:

UAB - 71,594
SDSU - 70,561
Rice - 70,000
Tulane - 69,703
Temple - 68,532
BYU - 64,045

:blink:

While I admit the ticket sales are a factor, I'm still not seeing Florida budge out of its swamp to come play a game at any of these venues... :P :laugh:

Stadium capacity doesn't mean jack unless you fill the seats. Yeah it's nice that Temple plays in a large venue, but since only 10,000 people actually go to those games they are an unattractive road destination. If you want examples of what I'm talking about look at Ohio State. Their only road nonconference game this year is at USC, last year it was Washington, and the year before it was Texas. All of those schools have HUGE venues and crowds by college football standards.

But stadium size was your premise in your original statement. Why does Florida ONLY play smaller programs OOC? If it was revenue-based only, wouldn't they be willing to play LARGER programs? Something doesn't add up here.

The reason that Florida (I use them as an example, because they are one of the most blatant "offenders" is because they know they can get practically every OOC game AT HOME. They "feel" that because the Conference schedule is tough, that they don't have to risk a loss when they have 4 guaranteed wins.

When was the last time Florida played anyone of significance (other than FSU) OOC?