I'm not saying we need to play a gauntlet type of schedule, I'm just worried that our recent trend of scheduling will devolve into a us just looking for anybody to fill the schedule with. We took a lot of heat from the media for scheduling "weak." Unfortunately, our schedule was not as weak as everyone made it out to be, but it was full of quite a few middle-of-the-road teams that didn't pan out like expected (we're looking at you UNC, Purdue, MSU)
I like the idea of barnstorming, and the fact that we are trying to go all over the country but, for instance, who do you think we will play in the Citrus Bowl 2014, will it be an interesting team like Bama (Bama which is by no means considered elite, talent-wise) or is it going to be USF, or Vandy. Not exactly what Rockne had in mind eighty years ago. If we played a tough schedule in 1988 and won an NC using the option, and had similar success in '93 why can't we do the same now. We can add a third "elite" team and it would dramatically increase everyone's perception of our schedule. We're getting the talent to compete with the LSU's UF's etc. why don't we play them.
