Kevin White continues to dumb down future schedules

[NDSMC78]

Originally Posted by KamaraPolice

We played Rutgers when they were sorry, what's wrong with play a team thats playing the best football in their school history.

Too late for that. 2006 has come and gone.

[KamaraPolice]

Originally Posted by NDSMC78

Too late for that. 2006 has come and gone.

Im all for a tougher schedule and playing cupcakes to end the season has proved devasting for bowl games. But Rutgers isn't a team to complain about. They are far better than the 3 service academies that appear every season.

[notredomer23]

Originally Posted by KamaraPolice

Im all for a tougher schedule and playing cupcakes to end the season has proved devasting for bowl games. But Rutgers isn't a team to complain about. They are far better than the 3 service academies that appear every season.

they are going to do nothing this year unless somebody steps in the place of Ray Rice. If not the can expect a 4 win season.

[IrishAlum1997]

Originally Posted by NDSMC78

Rutgers and UConn are not good programs. Rutgers has been terrible for years. The fact that Rutgers went to a couple minor bowls the past couple years does not change that. UConn? Are you kidding me?
As for Wake Forest, Mizzou, and ASU, I've got no problem playing them, but why not a home and home? And why does White continue to duck playing the traditional powers?

How many 'POWERS' do we have to face in one season? USC and Michigan are perrenial top-10 programs over the course of time. We have peppered in games against 'upper echelon' teams including LSU, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State over the last 10 years. Not making the effort to do research, I would argue that most seasons we have at least 2, if not 3 top-15 programs on our schedule. We pepper the rest of our schedule with solid programs like BC, MSU, Purdue, that sniff the top-25 at some point in most seasons. Sure we have our perceived patsies in the service academies (tough to use that term after this season, and tough to call AF and Navy patsies when those teams WIN bowl games), but all top-tier teams in the major conferences have their weak OOC games and lower-tier conference games mixed in. On paper, we have a competitive schedule every year.

In order to compete for national championships, it is not fair to our program to stuff the schedule with more than 3 'big time' games in a single season. As long as teams like the Bucknuts play every directional team in their state, we are not going to be able to compete for championships. This will have a residual impact on recruiting and the growth of our program.

Not really sharing a new argument, but what are we looking for? We have our traditional rivalries in scUM, $C, MSU, BC, and Navy. Those shouldn't (and won't) go away. Dump Purduh and Stanford every few years to keep the schedule fresh, and rotate through the programs mentioned in the article such as ASU, Wake, and the like.

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Originally Posted by NDSMC78

From today's Chicago Tribune, I have linked an article about ND's future schedules. It's more of the same from Kevin White. He is apparently talking about scheduling future games against such powers as Army, Baylor, UConn and Rutgers. There is also mention of home games against Wake Forest, Missouri, and Arizona St., but no return away games.
This, of course, is after White has said there is no room on future schedules for Texas, LSU, Bama and UGA. Absolutely disagraceful.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...ck=2&cset=true

We must all bear in mind that these schedules will STILL keep us in the Top20 for Strength of Schedule.

[mbooch]

Originally Posted by KamaraPolice

Im all for a tougher schedule and playing cupcakes to end the season has proved devasting for bowl games. But Rutgers isn't a team to complain about. They are far better than the 3 service academies that appear every season.

Tell y'all what... ND needs to be playing more games in Texas and Florida. Also, the dumbing down indictment is absolutely true when you look at the BASKETBALL schedule.

[phork]

As long as we don't stoop to Div1aa or worse. Frankly if your schedule is not 100% Div1a then you should be ineligible for any BCS games.
A temporary dumbing down of schedules wouldn't be a bad thing. A win builds confidence, winning a lot just multiplies that. Once the kids in the system grow and learn to have a culture of winning, the rest is easy. Then you slowly ramp up the schedule once the recruit train is filling up the stables on a consistent basis.